It's Still Life

16 August: Transitions

AI artwork: English garden scene in naive art style, flowers, trees, birds, umbrellas, houses, children, men and women

A Little Brouhaha

All about me, they lean,
dahlias the size of dinner plates.
It’s a feast of decanted pink
smacked sidewise, and
strong armed in a breeze.

The air twists on scents
of fermenting apples, wasps
behaving like angry drunks,
and all their unhinged buzzing
is a premonition of autumn.

Written for dVerse “Transitions” and RDP “Brouhaha” (in reference to angry, buzzing wasps) and Fandango’s “Breeze”  Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text or captioned. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.

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25 responses to “16 August: Transitions”

  1. merrildsmith avatar
    merrildsmith

    Oh, I really like this poem! Those dahlias and wasps. The final lines are perfect! I love the “unhinged buzzing.”
    Thank you for writing to the prompt.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thank you so much, and thanks but the prompt.

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        merrildsmith

        You’re very welcome!

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  2. Dorothy's New Vintage Kitchen avatar
    Dorothy’s New Vintage Kitchen

    Very nice Misky! I can see those beautiful dahlias! They never seem quite real.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      I had to tie them up yesterday!

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  3. kim881 avatar
    kim881

    I love all the flowers in your AI illustration, Marilyn, and I love your little brouhaha and the ‘dahlias the size of dinner plates’ – I wish mine were that size and ‘strong armed in a breeze’. I know those ‘wasps behaving like angry drunks, and all their unhinged buzzing’ – yes, autumn, my favourite season, is on the way and that makes me so happy!

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thank you, Kim. Yes, warm days and cool nights that make sleeping so much easier. But first we have to cope with some heat tomorrow, which I reckon will set every wasp into madness.

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  4. Mister Bump UK avatar
    Mister Bump UK

    I’m the same, except for me, the weeds are the size of dinner plates!

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Maybe they’re edible!

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      1. Mister Bump UK avatar
        Mister Bump UK

        well the cats aren’t interested, so…

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  5. Jane Dougherty avatar
    Jane Dougherty

    It’s all a premonition of something. This time of year there are hardly any flowers left, and there’s a week of 38-38°C coming up starting tomorrow. Plenty of wasps though. Love their ‘unhinged buzzing’.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      We’re having 27° tomorrow and rain again by Saturday. I found four slugs in the greenhouse eating my jalapeños. That surprised me!

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      1. Jane Dougherty avatar
        Jane Dougherty

        We have our eldest visiting at the moment with her family. They moved further north because they couldn’t stand the heat. They’re suffering. Nature is too.

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  6. Arcadia Maria avatar
    Arcadia Maria

    Nicely done Misky.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thank you so very much!

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  7. Grace avatar
    Grace

    Autumn is coming for sure, here too. Love the scents of fermenting apples.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Let’s hope it’s not a hard winter.

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  8. rxena77 avatar
    rxena77

    I have a lot of “Unhinged Buzzing” outside my apartment door when I leave in the morning! But from bees not wasps. Wasps unsettle me more than bees. Isn’t that silly? https://rolandyeomans.blogspot.com/2023/08/telling-truth-to-deaf.html

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Not silly at all. A wasp will sting you just because and for no other reason than that, and they can also sting multiple times because they don’t lose their stinger. And if you need another reason, they’re carnivorous!!

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  9. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) avatar
    Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

    I would love the dahlias even more if they were not the harbingers of fall.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      I live for the return of spring.

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  10. Melissa Lemay avatar
    Melissa Lemay

    I like the “wasps
    behaving like angry drunks”

    Well, I don’t like them, but I like your description of them.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thanks! I don’t line them either.

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  11. sanaarizvi avatar
    sanaarizvi

    The unhinged buzzing speaks volumes! Gorgeous rendering of the prompt, Misky 😍😍

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      Thanks so much!

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