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Friday, September 13, 2013

With Sadness...

Hello, this is Sue's granddaughter Breanna. It is with much sadness that I write the final post for her blog. Sue passed away on June 6, at home and surrounded by family. She was a fighter who left this world on her own terms.

In her final hours she asked me to let her readers/fans/friends/followers know that "it was fun!!".

She spoke often of her blogging community and the friendships that were formed here over the years. I hope you all know how much you meant to her.

~Breanna

Monday, May 13, 2013

Wordling for Sunday Whirl #108

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!




far above the mouth,
binding space to cave,
the sun chants a crooked vow
drones a darkened mantra
~ permits a broken promise
to bind to everyman's fist 
circling to its making

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Green for Woven Dreams #14

Thanks, Geraldine, for today's prompt!






green thoughts

sudden surge
new sprouts get short shrift
weeds win out

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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Wordling for Sunday Whirl #107


Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle!





too thunderous to count
messages spit across
the soupy sky
a thousand red charms
pulse from front to back
and round about again
like the sheen of time
dresses each crazed dish
the mystic signs for calm
but all eyes are on the
thunderous messages
spit across the soupy sky

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Acceptance for Woven Dreams #13

Thank you, Geraldine, for the prompt!




unchosen
serendipity
finely formed

A fractal

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Monday, May 06, 2013

Senryu for Magpie Tales #167

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the visual prompt!

 Young Woman Picking the Fruit of Knowledge, 1892 by Mary Cassatt




high stepper
stalks the flight of moon
glass ceiling

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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Senryu for Magpie Tales #166

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

illustration by Helen Ward



crowns and suits
cooks' club après fête
where's waldo?



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Monday, April 29, 2013

Trust for Woven Dreams #12

Thanks, Geraldine, for this prompt!







banking on
a four leaf clover
lucky find

 a computer sketch

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Sunny Days For Woven Dreams #11

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt meme!





green risings
sun salutation
spring poses

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Monday, April 08, 2013

Siren for Magpie Tales #163

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt.

Woman With a Towel, 1898, Edgar Degas




ermine clouds
the final siren
disclosure

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Alive for Woven Dreams #9

Thanks, Geraldine, for this prompt meme!




vibrant tones
painterly palette
spring is home





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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Senryu for Magpie Tales #162

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the following visual prompt.

Between Heaven and Hell, 1989 by Jacek Yerka


tubs and tools
where art thou, Julia
rising storm

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Monday, April 01, 2013

Poem for Sunday Whirl #102

Thanks, Brenda, for another fine Wordle prompt!





a humpback moon flows
over powdered peaks
unlocking shadows
from ancient pitted stones

fragile petals cling
to a staff of cane
lost souls call out

love is written but not read
and while she walks alone
the humpback moon
draws night from stone

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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Remember for Woven Dreams #8

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt!


Last year

Easter snow
forsythia blooms
...scrambled eggs



 A fractal with a small blossom embedded.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Janus for Magpie Tales #161

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

Not to be Reproduced, 1937 by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte



losing face
narcissistic fool
janus twist

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Buds for Woven Dreams #7

Thanks, Geraldine, for the Woven Dreams Prompt!





transforming  
medley of randoms
tiny starts

A fractal.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sketchy for Magpie Tales #160

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt...

Faun, Horse, and Bird, 1936
Pablo Picasso 
 
yoga chick 
blue spun overcast 
trojan horse


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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Training for Sunday Whirl #100


Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!





the master die
lays straight the track
calls the train
to stretch from way back

a march to place
urging wordful hope
bound to dreams and
faint marks of change

thunders down the rail
to create  
one full share of days
for every street

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Music for Woven Dreams #6

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt!






mystic strands
a little scat,
baby blues
one long trill
jazz tunes my soul
by a warm thrum
of rhyming fingers
when happiness
is a little jazz,
a little scat,
and one long trill

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Keenings for Sunday Whirl #99


Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle Prompt:





across the meadow far and away
the body
who sings those fearsome tunes

on no moon nights
echoes no love, sings no sweetness
nothing intimate, no last spree, 

where window parts of dark
ancient stars in free fall
shoot through fleshless paint
  
keening reserves the use to shock
outsiders who dare come hear and shiver
across the meadow far and away

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Award for Magpie Tales #159

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt!

Meal Beach, Burra Isles, Shetland by Robin Gosnall




etched in glass, one name
carved in time, marquee'd by light
one line on beach sand



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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Attic for Woven Dreams #5

Thanks, Geraldine, for another fine Woven Dreams prompt:                          







attic

overhead
a pocket of stars
pulls them on

 A fractal this day....

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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Senryu for Magpie Tales #158



Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt.


photo by TheFoxAndTheRaven




the wrong day
she grasped at the dawn
no returns

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Sunday, March 03, 2013

Poem for Sunday Whirl #98

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!






unbalanced instant
borne from blue into
the blessed free

at first gasp
a snare opened
and with a slap

the dust unfolded
a wild and shaky ride
on her red Schwinn

she earned those wings
the training wheels
were, oh so far, behind

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Weave for WovenDreams #4

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt!






in and out
a warp and a weft
twist of time

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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Dreams for WovenDreams #3

Thanks, Geraldine, for this prompt meme!



gardener
her nights harvest dreams
days resown



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Who Knew for Magpie Tales #157


Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the following image prompt:

Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936, Salvador Dali





implanted
storing bad and more
pandora

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Breath for Sunday Whirl #97

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt...







a breath

a pot bellied moon
a prophet on the fly
a discipline flung away
a patience pieced by limits
a compassion for the fall
a night steals tears
a sublime gaze delayed
a heroic moment lost 

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Transformation for Woven Dreams #2

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt: Transformation



Digital painting





daylight swells
double dark dwindles
season's drift

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #156


Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the following image prompt:

Wind of History by Jacek Yerka





stamped flora
hangs on settling skin
mud treatment

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Wraiths for Sunday Whirl #96

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt...






imaginary fiends
scurry under naked roots
hide from fresh candlelight
that births a simple gloom
to frighten through the night

a subtle lack of doors
holds the wraiths inside
those ghoulish faces
imaginary fiends  
sent flying by the dawn


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Blue for WovenDreams #1

Thanks, Geraldine, for your first prompt:







blue layers
weaving in and out
herding ghosts

 A fractal.

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Scene III for Magpie Tales #155

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt...



artwork by Joseph Lorusso




exposure
the lights come up
it's a wrap

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #95


Thanks, Brenda, for this wordle prompt...





incidents from The Ball

she
courts the rare
leaves open threads
the warp upon a loom

she
bathes
in coral bubbles
from ornamental bottles

she
floats on Prada
dodges the breath of banal
seeks the next dessert

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Monday, February 04, 2013

Senryu for Magpie Tales #154


Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt...

Central Library, Manchester, U.K., by Robin Gosnall




pillared posts
epic bungee jump
gone extreme 

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Second Hand for Sunday Whirl #94


Thanks Brenda, for the wordle prompt...





the same wish
time and again
sweet enough
to score proof
full grain straight

til she lost interest
pulled back, let it go
and without fuss
dealt herself
a second hand 

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Senryu for Magpie Tales #153

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt:

Charlotte Gainsbourg, AnOther




groovy times
e-platters of spin
iWorld old 

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Chimes for Sunday Whirl #93

Thanks, Brenda, for the prompt:





chimes scatter in the early mist
chatter in an eerie scale
notes curve tattered and edgy

beyond where straw skirts
the field and mirrored lights
rise to seek the raw dawn

small against the vast sky
she covers her eyes and ears
and hungers as a mother must

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Senryu for Magpie Tales 152

Thanks, Tess, for this image prompt...





two islands
he pulled his hand free
stepped away 

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #92

Thanks, Brenda, for pushing the pen...







she sings a song of sixpence
chorded in the key of wry
pearl drops of bones
hum a missing charge

beware that note is near
the air is sweet with dark
when art sings from the dais
sets the filaments ajar

a wire goes bad before
a filter blows
large chips of nothing
chorded in the key of wry

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Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Sale for Magpie Tales #150

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt...





shop window 
near ten mark strasse
wardrobe sale 

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Sunday, January 06, 2013

Giddy for Sunday Whirl #90

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt!





giddy with fever
dull of breath
listening for the new year
i practice one small step
clarity falls within the fire
logs burn through     split
in a tumult of embers
the new year awakens
ventures out from black ash
giddy with fever
dull of breath
 
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