The Ragtag Daily Prompt this morning is MAGNIFY. And here’s an old-fashioned poem as my response:
The Magnifying Sprite There’s an evil little spirit and his chiefest job, it seems is to magnify the faults of friends, the folly of their dreams. He likes to sow suspicion and amplify each doubt. If ever some good deed is done he points each fault line out It thrills him to sow discord and woe among mankind, to tinge all praise with shadow, each nasty nuance find. To shun this spiteful spirit, let his allusions slide, and focus on the good in folks, the magnifier’s other side.
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It’s weird how we are. We all do that. I’ve decided that — at least with me — it’s a self-defense mechanism and I don’t take it seriously.
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Here’s a belated thanks for your comment. Yes, we all do this — with some help from the whisperings or our enemy. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against…the rulers of the darkness of this world…”
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That evil little spirit is alive in lots of people unfortunately. I initially read sprite as they are the tricksters like Ariel in Shakespeares The Tempest.
Thanks for joining in Christine 🙂 🙂
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Thanks for your comment. Sorry so slow in getting to it. You’re right; that evil spirit does a lot of whispering in people’s ears, and whoever will listen will be led down the garden path.
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Just have to exorcise that evil spirit and send it to where the sun doesn’t shine.
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Very true. If only it would stay there! In my experience it tries sneaking back. 😦
Thanks for your comment.
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