Runaway for Sunday Whirl #61

Thanks, Brenda, for the Sunday Whirl Prompt.

Runaway

drafting on the wings

of a discontented current

one day of exile

sundered free of cracks

from unbound tempers

or the trace of racket

early leaves dapple

shadow-bright

to waft across her face

echoing today's peace

the latch string of song

opens its spare refrain

soothes tomorrow's fears

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For Magpie Tales #101

Tess Kincaid offers the following image for writers' prompt:

contemporary linking

fronts the muslin wrinkling

black and white alone, flesh

out the dulcet tawny tones

of an artful curve of thinking

the give and take of bending

while the sun sets on the west

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Breaking Down for Big Tent

Big Tent Poetry offers prompt: Do something, Pay attention, Write about it.

Breaking Down

unlike Thursday at the lab

when flat slick veins

spat a trickle of dark blood

veins rise pulsing

on the hand that clasps

a fresh blade cutter

a silver sharp razor edge
slits the tape and section

turns 3D container to sheet

last week a cardboard flap

scraped my shin, ran red

there's no blood on the box

I watch those persistent veins

and brood about vengeance

but what would fibre know

 

Digital Photo.

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Endings are the Same ~ Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry prompts:   Emotion is in our poetry – on some level, be it evocative or exploratory, empathetic or explosive. This week’s prompt is about anger.



Endings are the Same

born with thunder

and the dark of storms

she outruns luck

buys high, sells low

bets on losers

stays 'til the lights come on

curious, she lingers

countersinks all counsel

claps and calls una mas, una mas

shilling for a bettor's win

she deals to change that final finish

hangs 'til the light comes on

 

Manipulated digital photo.

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Tamped Down Taupe for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales offers a wonderful prompt by image on each Thursday morning. Responses are due before the following Tuesday morning. View the image at the site and read what others wrote. It's a fine trip.

Tamped Down Taupe

released from shades of gray

formed by sackcloth taupe

she sings of burning hope

sends it off to sky blue orbit                                                            

expectations sold

she cries out to the wind

dreamers' old stories

now sheer with overuse

the cocoon spat her out
with wings too wet to fly
she shuts her mouth

hums new shades of taupe

A fractal.

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Damask and Lemon Drops ~ RWP #108

Damask and Lemon Drops


a motif, lethal as milky disease,
etched shriveled lemon drops
on the ivory tablecloth

hysterics land as if on helideck
flittering with wild soap-opera glee
doubles play and crack

as amoeba for the day
proclaiming innocence of all wrong
they spread blame redolent as seed

tasteless lemon drops, duly scribed
upon the ivory damask cloth, see
one more hand-me-down performance



motif, milky disease, lemon drop, ivory, hysterics, helideck, flitter, doubles were the words culled from the dictionary according to the prompt directions    Visit the RWP site for the challenge and others' poetry!

The fractal image was created with Fractal Explorer.

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Poem for RWP #103

ReadWritePoem  get your poem on #103

The Pomegranate

crimson drops of blood
pods like jelly in a jar
color of the first chakra
sweet perfume of summer

silky bits wait inside
the rind of tough hide
until she yearns to feed
her pining soul in times

of winter's cold and white
and with a tiny seed pod
she re-creates the heat
of summer in a jelly jar

 
Fractal image created in Fractal Explorer, recolored and resized in Irfanview.
 

 

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Midnight for Totally Optional Prompt

Totally Optional Prompt: Midnight. What might happen at midnight? Besides the date changing, a new day starting, a deal with the devil, the witching hour, a half-moon rising, clocks chiming?

Midnight

midnight passed
with air black and still
lightning roared to life
rode thunder to the earth
shuddering trees shook free
their limbs and leaves
exposed the underside of rot
the sun bent dark to light
and looked upon the world
that midnight lobbed and left


Fractal image created in Fractal Explorer, resized in Irfanview.

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Cycliku for 3Word Wednesday

ThomG, moderator of 3Word Wednesday, offers the following three words for today's prompt: Darkness, Patronize, Weaken





double-down darkness
patronizes tight lipped moon
weakens harbor tide
saltwater hatchlings scratch sand
harbor tide weakens
patronizing tight lipped moon
double-down darkness

NaisaiKu and CYCLIKU! are informative links for this particular poetry form but I use poetic license and alter the rules to suit me and, hopefully, you!

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Fractal image created in Apophysis.

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Poem for Carry On Tuesday

Carry on Tuesday posts: Our prompt this week is a quotation from John Lennon: Love is the flower you've got to let grow.




Love is the Flower

tall and gangly
tattered at the crest
promising nothing
it sticks around

stays in place
a wild stalk
stalwart and true
proud as the rose

blossoms thrust forth
a summer surprise
love is the flower
you've got to let grow





Image is a watercolor/pen and ink bookmark.

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Poems for 3 Word Wednesday

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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Surya Namaskara ~ Sun Salutation

the essor at first light
flings diamonds on the sea
sparkles lines on salty wood

standing on the shore
bare feet aglound in sand
she commences sun salutation

deep in contemplation
fails to see dazzling gems
posed by essor at first light



Totally Optional Prompts suggests coining a word or two and inserting in a poem.

The image is a fractal created in Mandala software and altered in Irfanview.

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Tacoma Bridge of Light

as dawn scumbles the night
universal colors rise
worked by heat, blown by pipe
Chihuly's artistry of bold

a thousand dyes blend
waxy strands of primaries
hug rounds of gossamer glass
Chihuly's artistry of bold

a thousand scrambled facets
low empty bowls upended
akin to jellyfish suspended
Chihuly's artistry of bold

like Bellagio's decor
kaleidoscopes of gold
cast glitter on the floor
Chihuly's artistry of bold




Fractal created in Fractal Explorer by Sue.

Glass has fascinated me for eons, or maybe a little less than that. Dale Chihuly is one of my favorite artisans - it amazes me to watch glassblowers work from his rapidly sketched charcoal lines to create a diaphonous and exquisitely colored object. Follow the link if you'd like to see art of Chihuly.


Totally Optional Prompt: And what is a kyrielle? Briefly, a poem made up of four-line stanzas (any number of such stanzas) where the last line of each stanza is the same. Suggestion: write a free-verse kyrielle that retains the four-line stanza structure and the repetition.

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Flock of Meteorites

Michelle, at Poefusion Friday 5, offers these words for prompt.

pheromones
earmarked
sedulous
apiculate
blisters

And, once again, my dictionary was a necessary reference. I can't wait to read what the others wrote - you, too, can check them out (or play) by following the link.

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meteorites of birds
release white shadows
ahead of the sinking sun

earmarked as summer's
sedulous clean-up flock
these flashing birds ferret

bugs and bees drying
like amber tinted blisters
on the wooden deck

apiculate beaks emit
pheromones to keep
their cluster in complicity

when, after a feeding frenzy
of fermented grapes, they
whirl to undress my pear tree

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TOP German Shepherds

Totally Optional Prompt posts: It hasn't been a 'three dog night' around here for a long time, like since the last ice age, none the less the prompt this week is 'Three Dogs'. The challenge is to write three short poems about dogs, or the animal of your choice. They can be about three dogs, or three aspects of one dog, or the animal of your choice.

I don't have animals so these briefs are about peripherals. :) Wasn't easy for me!

German Shepherds

saber rattles
at interlopers
shares nap time
with cuddly toys

growls large at cat
sees soaring hawk shadow
ducks under deck

collared leash restraint
no diving into pristine
inground people's pool

This photo was created on the Office Max elf website which runs around Christmas time.

Sunday Scribblings Poem

Sunday Scribblings prompts: Compose. It's a strange word if you look at it, so that is the prompt for this week! It can be used to describe the process of any type of art-making including writing, photography, painting, drawing, singing, etc., etc. It's a big word. What does it bring up for you?

Moved by Wings of Wright

shuttling between good
and somebody's bad
carried by wings that rumble
from sameness and back

where mobius mirrors
false prophets of forever
into a galaxy exploding
over one land imploding

while lights and flames
merge like movie trailers
I'm carried between old stars
and new pinlights of earth

Fractal King of Grim created by Sue

Orion's Mural

banks of clouds
loosen their hold on
spring's murky sky

Flame Nebula tracks
the elliptical of Orion
drawing transient murals

and stellar hieroglyphs
like cyclic history
sketched on rock walls

overhead, chaos of earth
is expressed by string art
in lines of harmony

Fractal created in Apophysis.

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the word 'Express' for this week's Heads prompt.

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Joker's Game

Totally Optional Prompts offers 'smoke and mirrors' as the Thursday prompt. A great meme, please feel free to join in...



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come play with me
curled finger beckoned
disappeared into the haze

ticket vanished
I sped into the game
seeking, searching

slipped, fell, rose again
door banged shut
the mirror went black

magicians' rule ~
now you have it
no, you don’t

against the wall
head to brick
without a chance

the die was cast
a winner named
before I joined the game

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From the Dark

Totally Optional Prompt for today: Romance. In lieu of romance, for which I have little talent, I offer this 'almost' American Sentence...which may explain why.


By the time I learned the difference between martial and marital, there was none.



And an uncategorized poem:


From the Dark

when good things go
on arms of cold wind
sandbars hold old slivers
driftwood on the ebb

smoke falls downhill
greets the fog's new rising
nuzzles gray clustered rubble
astride the urn of terror

dawn drives the dark away
three-quarters of a walk
from the land of Incas
where good things went

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Carnival

mystic and masked
seraphs trace the tips of
voodoo needles
tease the smoke of soul

scatters of crystal beads
reward the jaded
who flee distant realms
for a taste of je ne sais quoi

Fat Tuesday
jives along the Quarter
sings out to drying bones
graved in roadside attics

Sunday Scribblings prompted 'A Date'
poems and digital photos