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Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

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California

0 posted 2013-03-23 07:15 PM

Tankas: Danke for this Day!

In the parking lot
Stalled at a ticket machine
Reading instructions,
"Just stick it in the window!"
Yelled the woman,
          hair of white.

Her blunt reaction
To "I'm going to see 'Oz'"
being "Such a child"
Sparked my frequenting Rosine's
Lemon meringue
          before lunch.

At the matinee
Watching coming attractions
With 3-d glasses,
My wife's didn't work. "Too dark"
She groaned, then saw
          zebra print.

Victoria

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since 2000-08-12

Posts 5869

1 posted 2013-03-23 07:39 PM

Really good work Bob...perfect tankas too...
You certainly have more patience than I have. Cute little tale too.

~Victoria

I was adored once too.
William Shakespeare

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

2 posted 2013-03-23 07:45 PM

Definitely CUTE, my friend!!

j.

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

3 posted 2013-03-24 04:44 AM

Thanks Victoria and Jimmy...

I appreciate both of your replies. It does appear that a person sees things a bit more strangely when they mix up 3-d glasses with their sunglasses!

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2013-05-19 11:34 AM

Again, you make me smile - even as I admire your poetic style!

Alison

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2013-05-19 12:26 PM

How'd I miss this? Well Thanks to Alison bringing it up front and center, I'm on board now. Loved how you begin the Tanka's, it was almost as good as the ending.

~*~ PMS jokes aren't funny, period. ~*~

Michael

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since 1999-08-13

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California

6 posted 2013-05-19 01:13 PM

Enjoyable reading, Bob. You should have have known better than to think you could actually stop to read directions this day and age.

Michael

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

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So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2013-05-19 08:29 PM

Cute poem, Bob.

Ida

secondhanddreampoet
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a 'Universalist' !

8 posted 2013-05-21 02:48 PM

good ones !!

Kit McCallum

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since 2000-04-30

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9 posted 2013-05-22 01:45 PM

These were great Bob! Fun visuals in the story, and great tanka format! Thanks for the smiles, well done.

Best wishes,
/Kit

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

10 posted 2013-05-22 09:23 PM

Thank you, Alison, Jerry, Michael, Ida, Bruce, and Kit...

Funny how it seems like it was so long ago when I wrote this one. It was when the new release of the movie "Oz" was still playing at the theater. WoW! Yep, that was a good day and, yep, that elderly lady was a real trip and talking to her was a kick. My wife and I took that day off to be alone in Monterey. It was her birthday. Very, very nice. If you haven't seen it, the movie is really worth seeing in 3-D. However, I probably won't be buying it to watch on my regular TV. Anyways, Gals and Guys, Thanks so much for bringing this one back up and allowing Me to once again be Thankful for that day! Thanks, again, to Everyone!

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

11 posted 2013-05-22 09:29 PM

Oh, and Rosine's on Alvarado Street in Monterey has the best deserts ever! Just sayin.' Thanks again!

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