Tanka for Heads or Tails

Barb at Skittles, owner of Heads or Tails offers today's prompt: Heads - anything yellow

his sun is yellow
sky is absolutely blue
young sidewalk artist
chalk dust on his novice hands
an age-old dream in his eyes


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Poem for Sunday Scribblings

Sunday Scribblings prompts: ...For some, the word poetry conjures up terror; other people's mouths begin to water in anticipation. Very few people feel nothing about it. Either way, your assignment this week is to write some - whether you like it or not!

One Long Trill

Mystic strands
a little scat,
baby blues
one long trill.
Jazz tunes my soul
by sensual plums
like a master lover
might bestow.
By a warm thrum
of rhyming fingers
awash in joyful tears
when happiness
is a little jazz,
a little scat,
and one long trill.

Image is an original watercolor by Sue...

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Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression posts: Thanks to Sweetest in the Gale for this week's prompt, blue.

late summer sky
clad in a wrap of blue
swinging glider

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foxtrotting raven
adorns a denim hued sky
partners white contrails

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Fractal created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.

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Poem for Totally Optional Prompts

Totally Optional Prompts posts: So, what do you have to say about laundry? Do you do your own or does someone do it for you? Do you hang it outside or use a dryer? Do you use fabric softener and bleach? And what about your dirty laundry? You know those deep, dark secrets. Do you air them or keep them hidden away?

Life Lines

stain-formed fractals
test the Jung and Freud
wrinkles hugging lint
while
origami layers enfold
dark and bitter defects
and agitate her sins

tangled strands of self
spin a thousand cuts
she spills not a single word

Image created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.

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Haiku for 3Word Wednesday

ThomG, moderator of 3WordWednesday offers the following words for prompt: Fracture, Noise, Vanish






night fracture
noise pounds window panes
vanishes



lightning vanishes
thunder drumrolls noise
fractures calm



his wish fractures
vanishes with the noise
her wedding bells

Fractal created in Apophysis, resized in Irfranview.

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F for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday prompts with the letter 'F' this week. Thanks!

Fused glass fascinates me ~ even after I tried it once.

Flight fascinates me, as well, but this is not my feather.

I am fearful that I used two f's today and may have no f's for Round 6. Sigh.

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NaisaiKu and Fractal for Heads or Tails

Barb Skittles at Heads or Tails offers steam as this week's prompt...

jets of steam
fired at passing clouds
Ol' Faithful
vaporous as Cupid's bow
Ol' Faithful
fires at passing clouds
jets of steam


NaisaiKu and CYCLIKU! offer information about this fun form of Haiku.

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer.

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Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression posts: Tea Leaves 'n' Honey brings us the prompt allow this week.

My mind went to the seasons (naturally) and to the world that allows the shifts of life and time.




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elliptical spin
sun stretches orbital band
hour glass of seasons

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cosmic facets
cross the reaches of time
nature's color book

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Fractal was created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.

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Fractal and Poem for Friday

Handful of Summer

yesterday I stood
ankle deep in summer

today rain pulls heat
from beneath my feet

sand drawn out by tides
or a rug picked up by fate

fall stalks dying bushes
winged gleaners gather seeds

grasping summer in my hand
I hold my breath

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.

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Haiku and Fractal for 3Word Wednesday

ThomG, moderator of 3Word Wednesday offers the following three words for prompt: graceful, decay, riot





graceful pears
grown plump with decay
waxwings riot

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graceful chat
decays with rudeness
townhall riots

The fractal image was created in Apophysis. Eyes were slightly altered on Bamboo Tablet with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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E for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday, Round 5, offers E for this week's prompt! Thank you!

I read of all the exotic places photographed and posted on ABC Wednesday and yearn for travel edgy with adventure.

Egads! My reality shows that today's excitement comes from homespun fun and a sun-warmed tomato. Two months or 60 days have elapsed since my top down tomatoes were first exposed and here are the UN-embellished results -

The first two yellow pear toms I ate were exquisite.

I'm confined to home now as I expect the next ripenings!

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Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression posts: Kitehorse brings us this week's prompt, copse. Thanks, Kitehorse!

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ankle deep
in summer's white heat
silent birch

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drifting dust
dry-paints pine needles
empty clouds

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dry creek beds
dehydrate cedar
blue sky spreads

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Image created on Bamboo Fun Tablet with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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Shoes for Totally Optional Prompts

Totally Optional Prompts: requests poems using shoes as a metaphor for death...

Rule of Red

magical red
spun along the path
Rubik's cube facets
sparkled up
a brown shoe world
flat as waning seas
before the dying sun

casual abandon
suspended by laces
birled at transformer lines
clustered crows
looked askance
into the nearing murk
and an empty pair of shoes


The image is a fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.

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Poem and Fractal for 3 Word Wednesday

ThomG, moderator of 3Word Wednesday, offers the following words for prompt: qualify, jinx, capture

Midway Arcade

croning faster than light
from a Pac-Man curse
she streaks through tunnels
captures dots and jinxed rogues

harvests strawberries
to qualify for an extra life
while karma
swings his joystick in the dark

Image is a fractal created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.

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D for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday offers the letter D for this week...Thanks!

DOOR

Screen doors never crossed my threshold of like - oh sure, they sometimes kept insects at bay and generally cats and birds didn't make their way inside. But the doors did bang shut to bruise an elbow and catch many a heel with the slam-bang closer while the screens invariably attracted pushy hands which refused to use the handle.

I invented my own. And I love it.
I've used this method for a baker's dozen of years.
A sheer curtain hangs in the door jamb by a tension rod to allow the view, light and fresh air through the entry while deterring bugs, birds and stray cats. It moves a bit in the breeze. Too much? A length of chain in the bottom hem keeps it more stable. It's easy to put up and remove (night and morning), washable and silent while at the same time it fascinates children and tickles old friends.

When not in use, the ends of the tension rod slip through small brass rings attached to the inside wall behind the house door and my screen door pretends to be a floor to ceiling painting which can be changed for a couple of bucks.

Did I mention that I love it? It is one of my favorite home decorating thingies.

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Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression posts: Thanks to Sweetest in the Gale (formerly Fledgling Poet) for this week's prompt, ocean. Feel free to follow the links and play along and/or to read some fine writings.

emotive tides
unbound by monthly moon
re-write the shore

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swirling blues
rock seaweed to and fro
Gaia's cradle


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Image was created on Bamboo Fun Tablet with Adobe Photoshop Elements, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.

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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NaiSaiKu for 3WW

ThomG, moderator of ThreeWordWednesday offers the following three words for prompt: Accentuate, Glamour, Pitch Please follow the link to read some fab writing and to try your hand at this very vibrant meme!

glamorous amber
fossilized resin of greens
accentuate arms
celebs pitch newfangled gems
accentuating arms
fossilized resin of greens
glamorous amber

Follow these links to read more about this form... NaisaiKu and CYCLIKU!

The image is a fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized in Irfanview.

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C for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday, Round 5, offers C as this week's prompt!

These remind me of a strange candy (from childhood) which claimed the name of Chicken Bones.

These are actually pine cones which have been rendered nude to the cob by squirrels. Piles of pine cone 'petals', picked clean of nuts and edible portions, surround these cone cobs.


Now I'm off to see the really interesting C's of this worldwide blogging meme participants!

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Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression prompts: Christine of Quiet Paths brings us this week's prompt, windows. Thanks Christine, for the prompt, the poem by Mary Oliver, and the wonderful photograph.

Please follow the above links to see Christine's wonderful work, as well as the poem by Mary Oliver and the work of other One Single Impression participants.

common truths
personal window
word painting

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Pac-Man moon
stalks dots and bubbles
window screens

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mind to paper
colors flow and link
inner windows

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stained glass
nebulae windows
colored space

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The image is a fractal created in Fractal Explorer with a digital photo of a vinca flower in a distorted and stretched state embedded.

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