The prompts now come from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog.
Today's prompt is: Breakfast in Bed.
Breakfast in bed leaves lots of crumbs
Thats why I alway give a 'Thumbs
Down' for breakfast in bed.
Too short, maybe, but my head is empty when it comes to creativity, and filled up with worries for the future. Elections are upcoming, this time for the parliament, not the local councils, but I can repeat what I posted last time around (October 2022): Only elections are not tomorrow. They are in three weeks, March 25th. Always on a Wednesday.
Scarier
and probably the worst poem, I ever wrote. Please, bear with me.
Now Halloween is scary
But Hallows eve has nary
A vampire's chance in hell
To scare me as tomorrow will ..
It is election day!
Tomorrow will be dreary
and leave me sad and weary
When all is said and done
and day has had its run
It is election day!
Tomorrow they'll be merry
The jesters. Hot and airy
is every word they say
like animals they bray.
It is election day!
Coming Themes - - - - - - - -
taken from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group.
Mar 9 Meeting a Friend
Mar 16 Obsidian
Mar 23 Croissant
Mar 30 The Moon Tonight
Apr 6 Passover
Apr 13 Fabulous
I give a big thumbs up to both of your poems. Thumbs down to crumbs in bed and agree with your election day thoughts!
SvarSletPoetic justice in your comment. Thank you so much.
SletYour election poem is quite good Charlotte. Sums up all our feelings quite well!
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Thanks, elections can bring out feelings!
SletI agree about crumbs, although I still think it would be nice to have breakfast in bed once, a nice, luxurious one, just to have the fun of doing it.
SvarSletYour election poem is right, it seems no matter how we vote, nothing changes.
I have only had breakfast in bed when ill or after an invention - might be one more reason I do not like it ;)
SletRe elections, yes it feels like this.
Our elections are always on Saturday, so those who work during the week can still get there. Most voting places have cake stalls and *sausage sizzles and soft drinks available too, so with snacks as you wait in line or to eat when you have been through, it's almost like a party day.
SvarSlet*sausage sizzle is when men barbecue large amounts of sausages and onions on a barbecue and sell them to customers with a slice of bread and maybe tomato sauce if you want it. Onions are optional though most people have them on the bread with the sausage. The prices are very reasonable.
Elections are mostly wednesday. The voting places open 8 in the morning and stays open until 8 in the evening, and they're many and local. Most within walkin distance of people's home, so you do your duty on the way to or from work. Only in the big cities it's much of a standing in line thing - or just after opening/just before closing time.
SletYour way of doing it sounds very festive. Here we only have candy for the kids that tag along.
My place for instance comprise just below 500 voters - one of the smallest in Denmark, I had to look up the biggest. They have almost 25000 voters (Viborg).
Interesting. In the United States, elections are on Tuesdays. (The reason is related to farming and horse travel time. A handful of people believe it should be a holiday or something, so people could the day off to vote. Well, except for first responders. Oh, and people who care for children. So, really just a handful of people would get any time off. But there's another group who believes most people shouldn't be allowed to vote, especially if they practice a different religion, or have a uterus, or have ancestors who were enslaved or classified as non-human {my great-grandfather was the first "human" in our line, according to the US Government}, or if they wouldn't vote for the current president... BUT ANYWAY).
SvarSletI know my spouse doesn't like food in bed, or on living room furniture, etc. To each their own. Lovely election day poem.
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I don't know the reason for Wednesday, but schools traditionally closed, because gyms are used for voting. I would like it to be a holiday.
SletIn Denmark voting is made easy, all Danish citicens, living in Denmark, 18 or older on election day (and not a ward) get a card by snail mail. You bring this, tell your date of birth, and is given the votes to fill out in a cubicle.
Equal rights for all - this includes: poor, fools, servants, women, bankrups. criminals and people from other countries - hails back from 1915, only then you needed to be 25 years of age. This limit has been raised and lowered several times to now 18.
I think most of my ancestors from 1915 onward have been able to cast their vote, before that I suspect none - as poor folks were excluded.
Before 1915 a meagre 15 % of the total population got to vote.