Bah?
What is there about wolves which make them believe we do not notice how their wool coats hang funny?
Mantra has had her fill lately of wolves in sheep’s clothing. One predator moved her to words, the rhyming kind she sings so well.
Join her on a turn at the rumor mill with a little number called Record Keeper. You will see this short one in her newest book, due out at the beginning of the year.
Record Keeper
Vestiges of rumors still fly by more than a pants’ seat.
The skeletal remains are recognizable by more than
Forensic pathology. What’s your degree?
How can you be qualified to judge the truth
Clothed in your sheepish finest?
Saliva strings dangle from fangs at the salacious slander.
What began as a fecal whiff is now dessert you serve
On your bone china with your best coffee.
Entertaining your masses with what only you
Can know as trustworthiest.
The flock of sheep whose attention you pander
To varying degrees, tolerate the tripe knowing of your
Lupine heritage because they can see
You reach for them only when you have exhausted
The ones who are the closest.
Your dreams of going in the record as the historian
Of all things pertinent and interesting
Will need to have a footnote or three
About how your true skill was exaggerating
Your role in the minutiae’s driest.
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Mantra in the Moonlight
The contents of Mantra’s new (as yet unnamed) book are a varied lot. The shortest have been posted to M3, which is why her offerings here have been sparse. Hardly any are truly short enough for the web. I hope you join her for a new romp through the poetic.
Have you known this wolf? How do you slay it?
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AHEM!
If you have been bitten by the nasty bug preventing comments, please use the link in my first comment below. Use either the name and password you originally registered for M3 with (if you remember) or a completely made up one. Tell the login assistant to “Remember Me”. This login is only good for M3, so it does not have to be like any other WP login you have.
Plus, you will stay logged in and stop filling out email forms to leave comments in the future.
Thank you for your constant support. I am retiring to light fire to the Internet. <3
Red of M3
/ September 9, 2013If you have gotten this far and cannot see the spambot box just under the Post Comment button, please refresh your page. Some are still having trouble getting a fresh page. There is a crumbled cookie in your cache.
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Gail Thornton
/ September 9, 2013I have know this wolf well. I am moving soon, and will be away from two of them. Slay them? I do as I want and please and ignore them, knowing my own truth. I do not care what rumors are spread about me or because of me or in my name. Neither of these have had the courage to take me on face to face. They are small and the sheep are fond of flocking, the wolf is a solitary animal.xxx
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Red of M3
/ September 9, 2013I always say, When they are talking about me, they are giving someone else a break. <3 xxx
Binky
/ September 9, 2013Sounds like a dear friend!
I always see the spambot checkbox when I post, if that’s what you’re talking about.
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Red of M3
/ September 9, 2013The kind of friends which make you appreciate the honor of enemies. It seems some the WP users cannot leave comments, and it may be spreading.
Laurie
/ September 9, 2013You slay this wolf by blurting out their truths, every ugly one of them. It’s the only way to stop the cycle.
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Red of M3
/ September 9, 2013Love this idea. Very effective.
Prenin
/ September 10, 2013Hi hun! 🙂
Thanks for the assist!!! 🙂
I’ve survived the wolf pack and everything bad that was said about me and now they have moved on to other victims.
Like it or not, right or wrong, the Wolves still need to feed on the innocent… 🙁
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
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Red of M3
/ September 12, 2013I think they need a more ecologically sound diet. IJS
RLB Hartmann
/ September 10, 2013“There is a crumbled cookie in your cache.”
This would be a nicer message to see from other places, rather than the “cannot load page” that I usually get.
As for wolves, it’s too bad that such a magnificent animal has long been placed in the role of a bad guy. There’s nothing more inspiring that a lone wolf howl that escalates into a tribal song.
Red of M3
/ September 12, 2013I do everything in my power to not blame my visitors for what is wrong technologically. Most of the time, they have not done a single thing to cause the problem.
The wolves around me mostly have two feet. The four-legged variety like the deer in my yard. 😉
JB
/ September 10, 2013To slay this wolf. One must first think like this wolf. Spend time getting close the when the moment is right. A silver bullet to the back of the head.
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Red of M3
/ September 12, 2013Excellent suggestion, Jeremy.
Bearman
/ September 10, 2013I don’t see the spambox check so I will see if this works.
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Bearman
/ September 10, 2013It works without the spam box thing
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Red of M3
/ September 12, 2013I got it back (along with 300 spam whilst it was off). Ugh. I am pretty sure it is working marginally well now.
MJ Logan
/ September 10, 2013The rumormongers are little more than sheep themselves, caught in a web of deceit, willingly led along by unseen chains to the slaughter. Their wolf is self-importance and insecurity. They die alone and untended, their final moments a desperate cry for attention.
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Red of M3
/ September 12, 2013So very true. Why do they never see themselves as marionettes?
Valentine Logar
/ September 12, 2013I have missed Mantra, truly. Wolves, do they ever really fool us? I think we fool ourselves instead, blindly going forward for love or need.
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Red of M3
/ September 12, 2013I believe you are correct. We want to believe so much of the time. xxx