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#Diamonds are old. Billions of years old. The oldest woman in the world wearing diamonds is the newly-laid egg of a dung beetle rolling down an ancient pyramid.

Carbon-based life-forms
wearing shiny carbon
from the bowels of the earth.

A melange of painted canoes
pulled ashore lines the waterfront
beside weathered turning stile,
toads leap toward the riverside
dried haystacks whisper to the wind,
afternoon slips unhurriedly
through the verdant farmlands
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alone at the bar
her synthetic diamond
reflects fluorescent lights

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Stars like #diamonds
reflected in a lover's eyes
on a clear moonless night
mesmerizing and
captures the imagination
deep dark and full of
unspoken promises

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Abandoned diamond
Mine, a lost city guarded
By bad gorillas.
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Today’s Thursday September 10th prompt is #diamond #thingstowriteabout

Silvery lake shimmers
new currents meander
where amorous swans entwine,
lush foliage's fragrant flowers
cascade on serene moonglade,
she nestled in his comforting love
his soft hugs&kisses
make her blush gently
tender romance flourishes
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losing a bet
the princess has to kiss
the Toad King

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Ruth gathered #ears of grain. It's one of the most romantic stories in the bible—but it's a woman picking up harvest leftovers from the ground.

A marriage. A new home.

What I mostly remember is Keats: Ruth amid the alien corn. A transferred epithet, like a woman displaced.

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Frogs are long-legged, wet and slimy; toads are dry, warty, and their legs are short.

If a witch strikes me down with an amphibian shape-shifting curse, the universe knows I'm a #toad.

Break the spell. Kiss my dry lips softly. But no, I won't transform into a princess.

Not all #toads
are princes
but some of
those noble people
are definitely
frogs

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My mum called me toad,
Because of my feet,
My toes slightly longer,
But still very neat,
She said she said “toe’d”
My Dad heard her wrong,
An amphibian nickname,
Cause of toes that were long.

#thingstowriteabout toad

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they came in the night
slipping from the laps of cypress knees,
rippling to the levee to plot the midnight siege
and there among the lizard's tail
they named King #Toad 'my liege.'

Burping in protest,
Disgruntled toad hopping mad,
Too slow for the frog.
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Today’s Wednesday September 9th prompt is #toad #thingstowriteabout