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Totally Optional Prompts post: Let's write about exercise this week.
Orphaned Thoughts
ghosts of threat
...promise carrots and
wield small sticks
treadmill hugs the wall
books lean against weights
...flexible rubber tubing
on scattered tables
pleads for a stretch
she expects to work out
...doesn't know for sure
when dust buried
thoughts of good intent
Watercolor by Sue.
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Shadorma is a Spanish 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5
an unknown
opportunity
came and went
no knocking
on the proverbial door
last service notice
American Sentence ~ 17 syllables
Opportunity for service thrives while they continue to quarrel.
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ABC Wednesday prompts O for today. Thanks, MrsNesbitt!
orange segment on bean salad
Skittles at Heads or Tales posts: HEADS - "Down On The Farm" Make any kind of post using "Down on the Farm" as your prompt. Your post should be about things or animals that could be found on a farm.
A Near Limerick
there once was a rancher named Mel
worn thin by his farm in the dell
who in one fit of pith
moved to nearby Corinth
and gave up his hard work from h*ll
That's about all I know first-hand about farms. Well, actually, I guessed at some of it and took a snap of the rest. But I did once see a headless chicken body flopping. Arggh.
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Sunday Scribblings asks: Tell us your take on 'follow.'
Follow. I do. I am. To stay home and learn what others are doing, thinking and saying is a daily pleasure. Blogger follow works well in Google Reader and Twitter, which I initially joined to make sure I 'saved' my name, is a minute by minute surprise. It's turned into a great source of information and blog updates that I might otherwise miss. Facebook - I joined to follow updates for an anthology but haven't used it for anything else.
A lot of people use followings to promote or market but this is my first attempt ~~ Monday, if I can figure the technical part, I'll put a sticky post on Blogger and send a daily Tweet asking a vote for Sofia #190 who's in the top 20 contestants for the Baby Idol Contest presented by Spokane Radio KZZU 92.9.
It will be interesting to see if following can actually have a serious use. :)
Oh, what fun it all is!
The digital photo of Sofia #190 was snapped by her mother and forwarded to me by her grandma. I'm smitten and hope to follow her for a long time!
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Totally Optional Prompts offers: This week write a poem that is inspired by a quotation. The quote could be from a newpaper or magazine article or it could just be a quote that you like about life or anything.
--Pablo Neruda
After
on the tail of wind
raw spots and bad times
breathe in the streets
double back through dust
from still warm ashes
reluctant mourners
filter knuckle bones
sift familiar bric-a-brac
beyond a thousand cuts
like a jester in the rubble
the future comes again
and finds no one at home
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Abstract watercolor by Sue.
ABC Wednesday prompts with the letter N. Thank you, Mrs.Nesbitt!
My parents and I were fascinated by Egyptian history and the thrill of seeing the King Tut exhibit in the late 1970's was totally overwhelming.
Mom began ceramic/pottery classes shortly after that and couldn't decide on the perfect colors for her 'Nefertiti'. It stayed default white.
After Mom's death, Nefertiti came to stay with me and has had several plinths as temporary homes but love for my mother and her Nefertiti remain firmly held.
Digital photo by Sue. Nefertiti was photographed on the floor in front of a window. The background was altered in Pixia and Adobe Photoshop Elements to hide the treadmill and window coverings.
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Skittles at Heads or Tails offers this prompt: TAILS - "Once upon a time"
Make a post that starts with "Once upon a time." It can be a real story or idea that you want to start that way, a fairy tale of your own, etc.
One Single Impression posts: Thanks to Jess of Wayfaring Wanderer, who has provided this week's prompt, one word
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lined papers
squiggles mark each one
preschooler
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collection
deliberate memories
whitewashed
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leafless table
children flown
wordless years
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Fractal created in Fractal Explorer.
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Totally Optional Prompts offers: This week, find an interesting photograph that has meaning for you and write a poem inspired by it.
spring blusters
winter peeks, then hides
...a child's game
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She'd played him like a perch on a fine line. The allure of the two-bit hustler and the shame Elmer felt when she bullied him in front of the patrons of the Drift Inn was vivid. Disturbing. And something he couldn't live with. She'd be sorry.
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The image is a small watercolor which I used as the cover for War and Pieces, a 2000 Mythsteries tiny book.
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ABC Wednesday offers the letter M as prompt. Thank you, MrsNesbitt!
Monster vs Moon
A sight I could hardly believe. The 'monster' was visible and mind-boggling. I hope you can see it on your monitor! Click on image to make it larger. Photo was taken with an older digital point-and-shoot, using my SIL's shoulder as a tripod. :)
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Skittles at Heads or Tails offers this:
HEADS - "Reason"Make any kind of post using "Reason" as your prompt.
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the sound of reason
has gone strangely silent
cost of cabin fever
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there's little reason
for most of what I do
that's all right by me
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The image is without reason, totally. A doodle in Pixia on Bamboo Fun tablet.
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One Single Impression post: Thanks to Sue of Sunflower Roots for this week's prompt, live water.
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spring runoff
floods low flung washes
lichen spreads
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harmonics
six degrees of water
hazy chords
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swollen air
rolls across the sky -
shedding rain
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Watercolor by Sue.
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The ability/willingness of news sources to source opinions instead of news scares me. The titillation factor, cameras closing in on suffering families and full coverage of celebs in slight clothing has replaced the news that people should scream to know.
How can people become educated when they spend so many hours watching TV and surfing the Internet where the preponderance of articles makes light of reality? Reality shows aren't. They are scripted, for the most part, by marketing writers.
Locating facts takes time and energy and yet facts should be the easiest to find.
Few take advantage of facts but base their beliefs on the hot air that explodes from kneejerkers and those who earn their money by subterfuge and vitriol.
This a scary part of the times, to me.
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The image was created in Fractal Explorer. It might be a self-portrait. Or not.
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ThomG, moderator of 3ww Wednesday offers the following three words for today's prompt:
Flirt, Ploy, Stunning
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A cinquain:
a flirt
with naked ploy
to capture the brass ring
brought the emperor to his knees
stunning
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A shadorma:
stunning ploy
took the world by storm
truthiness
and insight
a wordwise flirt spoke to all
sealed well-worn loopholes
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The fractal was created in Fractal Explorer.
Thanks for the prompt ThomG. These forms are short enough to try without taking out too many cells. :)
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ABC Wednesday prompts the letter 'L' for this week. Thank you, MrsNesbitt!
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Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the following prompt:
TAILS - "List Three". List three things from any category. Your choice.
This is as REAL as I can write it, Barb, but it is written in lemon juice.
A list of three things I ♥ about winter.
1.
2.
3.
Because one can never have too many lists, here's another.
A list of three things I ♥ about spring.
1. winter is going
2. summer is coming
3. color riots
The begonia in the photo above was stunning. My younger daughter gave it to me a couple of years ago.
1. I took photos.
2. It died.
3. I'm sure there was no correlation between those two actions.
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One Single Impression post: Thanks to Laurie at April Wine for this week's prompt, listening.
Sunday Scribblings asks: What have you got to celebrate?
I'm celebrating the first show of spring!
Not much more than a quart of snow remains in the yard, the sun is out, the thermometer marks fifty and the moss is green.
Because the temperature will drop below freezing tonight and there will be more snow, I may re-cork the champagne and focus on color, sunshine and wamth.
And, I'll also celebrate the third anniversary of this blog. What could be better than Spring and a blog birthday?
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pussy willows
spring from swollen branches
fall into snow
Original watercolor by Sue
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Queen of Hearts
queen of hearts
walks her footprints
into white sand
she wears a smile
bears a special shell
and her dreams in hand
a redeal of cards ~
no rags of regret
unfurl from the past
ahead of the wind
she moves without haste
keeps an ace in her sleeve
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Original watercolor by Sue...
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ThomG at 3 Word Wednesday offers the following words for prompt: knack, crush, varied. Thanks, ThomG. Come play along...
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varied greens
a crush of crisp thyme
chef's knack
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the crush of time
has a knack for stealing
varied dreams
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crush of spyware scan
with knack for reboot trigger
varied words vanish
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Fractal image created in Fractal Explorer.
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