The Poetry of Everyday Loves....

 Today's prompt is quite a lot like other recent prompts. But I'm going with the random: in my head things that I tend to love daily. 

Everyday Loves

I love kitty kisses. 

Not just any kitties,

but my loves,

Turtle and Fluffy.

My child bestowed the name Turtle

upon my pretty kitty,

because we had high hopes 

she would be a tortoise shell. 

Fluffy got her name because,

as a small, abandoned kitten,

her fur fluffed straight out. 

Just stood straight out, 

FLUFFY.

So I started calling her the fluffy one.

It morphed into her name. 

And now, well, 

Fluffsy-wuffsy,

ain't so fluffsy anymore. 

But she knows her name, 

so Fluffy it is. 

But I digress. I was just planning to freefall

and write about all those loves, 

not just those two crazy bottle babies 

that still call me Mom.

I love... 

rain in Spring

and ducks splashing in puddles.

I love Duke the dog, 

who might also we called 

Gargantuan.

He's kind of rotten, 

not enough training,

and a little too much puppy.

But I love his derpy goofy self. 

I love... 

how my very own Ed Sheeran,

the cat, 

who thinks his name is Eddie,

and loves me in his possessive yet aloof kind of way.

I love... 

how my kiddos

count me on their friends list.

and even act like I'm a best friend, 

trusting me with their

fears, triumphs, failures, needs,

all of it.

This is my favorite love.

It tells me I've grown, 

changed, 

become trustworthy.

I love.... 

Jesus.

Because he loved me first.

I don't love Christians.

Enough said.

I love...

Spring

and all the new life it brings:

kittens, chicks, goat kids....

vegetables, flowers, houseplants.

I love tiedye. 

The process, 

the outcome.

The thing I call 

"the magic of tiedye,"

which is really just the mystery of...

I can think it will look like this,

but I won't really know 

until it's rinsed and unfurled and revealed. 

Art that mimics life. 

I think my life will turn out like this,

but I won't know until it is later unfurled. 

I love that. 

-Carrie Horn

One of my favorite people ever... 

Another favorite human

Turtle

Fluffy

 

The magic of tiedye.

He is probably larger than appears. Duke.