July 4

Happy Fourth of July!

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Weather for Totally Optional Prompts

Totally Optional Prompts offers: Weather

Southern Shifts

she holds her breath
three days at solstice
when the sun stands still

summer days condense
tree shadows unfold early
and night steps ever closer

black tracks slash the day
and the sun begins to leave
she holds her breath


Image is a light-hearted sketch of eyes, created on Bamboo Fun Tablet in Adobe Photoshop Elements and resized in Irfanview.

My poetry books North of Summer and South of Winter are now available at Amazon through a pilot program by Lulu Publishing and as always, available from my LuluBookstore.

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3WW and Naisaiku Challenge

ThomG, moderator of 3WordWednesday offers these words for prompt: yearn, sweet, collapse

confined yearn
unwinds sweet at night
bumps daylight
meets full blown collapse
bumps daylight
rewinds sweet at night
confined yearn

Image is a digital photo processed in Pixia and Irfanview.

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X for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday offers X for the prompt.

Spectacular photos of the cosmos come from the Chandra X-ray Telescope which completes its unusual elliptical orbit in sixty-four hours and eighteen minutes.

The above photo accompanies the June 26, 2009 press release and shows rays of the Milky Way that have accelerated in the remnants of exploded stars.

X-ray telescopes differ greatly from optical telescopes. High-energy, X-ray photons penetrate into a mirror in much the same way that bullets slam into a wall or ricochet when they hit at a grazing angle. The Chandra telescope system consists of four pairs of mirrors and their support structure.

Photo Credit: Optical: ESO/E. Helder; X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Utrecht/J.Vink et al

Follow the link to see more about this fascinating telescope and to view other incredible photos of our outer world.

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My poetry books North of Summer and South of Winter are currently available at Amazon and, as always, available from my LuluBookstore in print or as download.

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