tiny bites
stealing time by night
restless sleep
Fractal created in Apophysis.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Haiga for Haiku Bones
Haiku Bones offers sleep as this week's prompt.
tiny bites
stealing time by night
restless sleep
Fractal created in Apophysis.
tiny bites
stealing time by night
restless sleep
Fractal created in Apophysis.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Silent Water for RWP #115
RWP #115 Prompt - Belief by the list.
Silent Water
near the limbo of belief
my clockwork brain
treads silent water
while trust ebbs and flows
pebbles line my pockets
like limpets in a shell
lies and truth crack down
upon the fractured rocks
turmoil smacks upon the reef
hangs me out to wither
along the ancient seams
of a beggar's quasi dream
my clockwork brain
treads silent water
in the limbo of belief
Fractal image created with Sterling2.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
NaiSaiKu for 3WW
ThomG, moderator of 3WW, offers the following three as prompt words: generate, meager, tease
big board barkers tease
generating fever pitch
spinning meager nets
while futures swing on a string
spinning meager nets
generating fever pitch
big board barkers tease
NaiSaiKu information and meme can be found at this link!
Fractal image was created in Fractal Explorer.
big board barkers tease
generating fever pitch
spinning meager nets
while futures swing on a string
spinning meager nets
generating fever pitch
big board barkers tease
NaiSaiKu information and meme can be found at this link!
Fractal image was created in Fractal Explorer.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
F for ABC Wednesday
ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: F is for Facts!
Fractals
Wikipedia has this to say:
A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"a property called self-similarity. Roots of mathematical interest in fractals can be traced back to the late 19th Century; however, the term "fractal" was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.
This image is one of the first that I toyed with. It has a fractal background with a digital photo of a white daisy inserted and manipulated. I use free fractal design software to create the fractals posted on my blogs. Fascinating and easy to use, Apophysis and Fractal Explorer are my favorites. Since I've given up dusting and such, free time is far easier to find.
Fractals
Wikipedia has this to say:
A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"a property called self-similarity. Roots of mathematical interest in fractals can be traced back to the late 19th Century; however, the term "fractal" was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.
This image is one of the first that I toyed with. It has a fractal background with a digital photo of a white daisy inserted and manipulated. I use free fractal design software to create the fractals posted on my blogs. Fascinating and easy to use, Apophysis and Fractal Explorer are my favorites. Since I've given up dusting and such, free time is far easier to find.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Haiku for One Single Impression
One Single Impression: Prompt 104: Insomnia Felicity of Confessions of a Philosophy Junkie brings us this week's prompt.
my muse sleeps
wide awake, I wait
all night long
The fractal image was created in Fractal Explorer.
my muse sleeps
wide awake, I wait
all night long
The fractal image was created in Fractal Explorer.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Haiga for Haiku Bones
From Haiku Bones: Today's prompt is fraught. Thanks to Haiku Social.
broken boughs
fraught with falling snow
winter's gauge
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Slush Pile for RWP #114
Read Write Poem challenge is to write a poem using those words: lubricious, fiction, frosted, eggshells, frog, patter, hacksaw, footlocker, red, mutter, panic, decay, nails, crown. I might have missed a couple or some. :-)
Slush Pile
a double take of green
comes hopping, hopping
down the blooming path
red one-gallon crowns
hacksawed from other frogs
clatter loosely at each leap
these praying princes patter
over freshly frosted eggshells
and in one footlocker croak
beg the queen's own agent
to nail down a healthy deal
and pub their lubricious fiction
she fakes a grin, rolls her eyes
and mutters via common natter
nobody'd buy your kissing tale
Slush Pile
a double take of green
comes hopping, hopping
down the blooming path
red one-gallon crowns
hacksawed from other frogs
clatter loosely at each leap
these praying princes patter
over freshly frosted eggshells
and in one footlocker croak
beg the queen's own agent
to nail down a healthy deal
and pub their lubricious fiction
she fakes a grin, rolls her eyes
and mutters via common natter
nobody'd buy your kissing tale
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
NaiSaiKu for 3WW
ThomG, moderator of ThreeWordWednesday offers: occur, ragged, tidy as the prompt words today. And, I offer the following NaiSaiKu. Follow either or both links to play on these sites and to see how much fun others are having!
ragged devil pawns
far too worn to tidy up
occur at bashes
rowdy old rabble rousers
occur at bashes
far too worn to tidy up
ragged devil pawns
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized in Irfanview.
ragged devil pawns
far too worn to tidy up
occur at bashes
rowdy old rabble rousers
occur at bashes
far too worn to tidy up
ragged devil pawns
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized in Irfanview.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Embroidery for ABC Wednesday
ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: Exciting Stuff!
E is for Embroidery
I was seven and anxious to begin my first embroidery piece because falling rain dampened my enthusiasm for playing outdoors which was my first choice.
I shook my head when Mom suggested that I change out of my Sunday go-to-church dress and began the tedious work of creating a charming butterfly skimming the surface of brightly yarned flowers from a thin blue outline of those elegant images.
I stubbornly refused to heed Mom's suggestion to take a break and kept stitching, stitching, stitching. I wanted to finish this piece so I could start another.
Ah! At last it was complete! TA-DA! I stood up. The butterfly, flowers and the embroidery hoop remained in place. The entire project was now sewn to my dress.
Embroidery never again held the same thrill. Surely I'm not the only one this has happened to?
E is for Embroidery
I was seven and anxious to begin my first embroidery piece because falling rain dampened my enthusiasm for playing outdoors which was my first choice.
I shook my head when Mom suggested that I change out of my Sunday go-to-church dress and began the tedious work of creating a charming butterfly skimming the surface of brightly yarned flowers from a thin blue outline of those elegant images.
I stubbornly refused to heed Mom's suggestion to take a break and kept stitching, stitching, stitching. I wanted to finish this piece so I could start another.
Ah! At last it was complete! TA-DA! I stood up. The butterfly, flowers and the embroidery hoop remained in place. The entire project was now sewn to my dress.
Embroidery never again held the same thrill. Surely I'm not the only one this has happened to?
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Haiku for One Single Impression
One Single Impression: Prompt 103: Gold
Thanks to Blue Mist of Ambrosian Ecstasy for this week's prompt.
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.
Thanks to Blue Mist of Ambrosian Ecstasy for this week's prompt.
buttercup
golden burst of spring
gilded gift
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Haiga for Haiku Bones
Haiku Bones prompt: Seductive
pre-spring sun
teases the green shoot
centerfold
The fractal image was created in Apophysis, resized and text'd in Irfanview.
pre-spring sun
teases the green shoot
centerfold
The fractal image was created in Apophysis, resized and text'd in Irfanview.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Poem for RWP #113
The RWP #113 challenge is to get out of your poem rut with a run through a spring spa - follow a series of steps and end up with a poem not like the one you usually write. Follow the link to see what others wrote.
One Spoon
raspberry jam tops an English muffin half
bleeds into the honeycombed face
a tasty mound of crimson, wrapping old seeds,
waters my mouth as if in practice for
a harvest garden while winter rides roughshod
removing all color from my world until
all I find is a single spot of scarlet as the outer white
grows taller, stronger and more frigid and
in that world where cold has died,
red still seeps into the sand one drop at a time
Fractal created in Apophysis.
One Spoon
raspberry jam tops an English muffin half
bleeds into the honeycombed face
a tasty mound of crimson, wrapping old seeds,
waters my mouth as if in practice for
a harvest garden while winter rides roughshod
removing all color from my world until
all I find is a single spot of scarlet as the outer white
grows taller, stronger and more frigid and
in that world where cold has died,
red still seeps into the sand one drop at a time
Fractal created in Apophysis.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
NaiSaiKu for 3Word Wednesday
ThomG, moderator of 3 Word Wednesday, offers these words today: lucid, salvage, righteous
lucid wins - gesso
salvage of painting gone bad
a righteous effort
putty knife makes new texture
a righteous effort
a toss-out painting salvaged
lucid gesso wins
Fractal created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.
NaiSaiKu site and instructions
lucid wins - gesso
salvage of painting gone bad
a righteous effort
putty knife makes new texture
a righteous effort
a toss-out painting salvaged
lucid gesso wins
Fractal created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.
NaiSaiKu site and instructions
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
D for ABC Wednesday
ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: D is for....Design!
D is for Davis http://fora.tv/2010/01/13/Wade_Davis_Why_Ancient_Wisdom_Matters_in_the_Modern_World
Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953) is a noted Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures...Davis has published popular articles in Outside, National Geographic, Fortune and Conde Nast Traveler
This ForaTV program title caught my attention on a busy day. It runs a little more than an hour, so I watched in dribbles, although it was difficult to tear myself away. Very soon, I'll go back and watch the video in one piece. Davis has captured the mystery, magic and cultural wonder which eludes those who are unable to witness this other than vicariously.
And, last week's news brought the obit of the last speaker of an ancient tribal language who died in the Andaman Islands thereby breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-dies
If you watch the video, in whole or part, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
D is for Davis http://fora.tv/2010/01/13/Wade_Davis_Why_Ancient_Wisdom_Matters_in_the_Modern_World
Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953) is a noted Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures...Davis has published popular articles in Outside, National Geographic, Fortune and Conde Nast Traveler
This ForaTV program title caught my attention on a busy day. It runs a little more than an hour, so I watched in dribbles, although it was difficult to tear myself away. Very soon, I'll go back and watch the video in one piece. Davis has captured the mystery, magic and cultural wonder which eludes those who are unable to witness this other than vicariously.
And, last week's news brought the obit of the last speaker of an ancient tribal language who died in the Andaman Islands thereby breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-dies
If you watch the video, in whole or part, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Haiku for One Single Impression
One Single Impression: Prompt 102: Single
lonely thunderclap
a single flash of lightning
begets a wild storm
Fractal image created in Fractal Explorer, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.
lonely thunderclap
a single flash of lightning
begets a wild storm
Fractal image created in Fractal Explorer, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.
♥ ♥ ♥
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Haiga for Haiku Bones
Haiku Bones offers this prompt: Breath
breath of past
shifts the nub of night
stirs the chi
Fractal image created in Apophysis.
breath of past
shifts the nub of night
stirs the chi
Fractal image created in Apophysis.
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Galena Whispers for RWP 112
Get Your Poem on #112
Dave Jarecki prompts: This week, I encourage you to find the “narrative wallpaper” that resides in your home, apartment, memory, etc.
Galena Whispers
wallpaper was a stranger
calcimine took its stead
staged an army surplus bunkbed
where webs of wires
from a crystal radio
pulled shadows from a rock
nightly sibilance from earphones
scared us into giggles
forever destined to hide fear
for who could foresee that safety
was only a figment of the mind
needled from a chunk of galena
Fractal created in Apophysis.
Dave Jarecki prompts: This week, I encourage you to find the “narrative wallpaper” that resides in your home, apartment, memory, etc.
wallpaper was a stranger
calcimine took its stead
staged an army surplus bunkbed
where webs of wires
from a crystal radio
pulled shadows from a rock
nightly sibilance from earphones
scared us into giggles
forever destined to hide fear
for who could foresee that safety
was only a figment of the mind
needled from a chunk of galena
Fractal created in Apophysis.
♥ ♥ ♥
NaiSaiKu for 3WW
ThomG, moderator for 3WordWednesday, offers these words as prompt: odor, frantic, lurch.
For fun, this NaiSaiKu...
the first frantic lurch
from the cafeteria door
he breathed in deeply
the dreaded spinach odor
not so deep he breathed
from the cafeteria door
second frantic lurch
Fractal image was created in Apophysis, edited in Irfanview.
My Poem, Dark Clusters, is now published in Flutter at http://rarepetal.webs.com/volume5issue2.htm
For fun, this NaiSaiKu...
the first frantic lurch
from the cafeteria door
he breathed in deeply
the dreaded spinach odor
not so deep he breathed
from the cafeteria door
second frantic lurch
Fractal image was created in Apophysis, edited in Irfanview.
My Poem, Dark Clusters, is now published in Flutter at http://rarepetal.webs.com/volume5issue2.htm
♥ ♥ ♥
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
C for ABC Wednesday
ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: C is for.........Comments
A long time ago, I purchased an inexpensive copy of a painting from a going-out-of-business shop.
When I began watercoloring, I watched Terry Madden on PBS when he conducted his weekly workshop with Floridian style images.
I'm not sure when it occurred to me (it was far too long) but I raced to the painting to read the signature. Yup. 'Twas Terry Madden.
Slow? I must be. A coinkidink? Surely.
My darling mother used this term a long time ago and it always made me giggle. I'd never heard it said by anyone outside our small family. Who knew it would find its way into the urban dictionary?
A coindink. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coinkidink
My poem, Dark Clusters, is in the February 2010 Issue of Flutter.
http://rarepetal.webs.com/volume5issue2.htm
A long time ago, I purchased an inexpensive copy of a painting from a going-out-of-business shop.
When I began watercoloring, I watched Terry Madden on PBS when he conducted his weekly workshop with Floridian style images.
I'm not sure when it occurred to me (it was far too long) but I raced to the painting to read the signature. Yup. 'Twas Terry Madden.
Slow? I must be. A coinkidink? Surely.
My darling mother used this term a long time ago and it always made me giggle. I'd never heard it said by anyone outside our small family. Who knew it would find its way into the urban dictionary?
A coindink. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=coinkidink
My poem, Dark Clusters, is in the February 2010 Issue of Flutter.
http://rarepetal.webs.com/volume5issue2.htm
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Monday, February 01, 2010
Haiku for One Single Impression
One Single Impression: Prompt 101: Blowing the Curve
mimetic
sketch of age old myth
shape shifting
I'm happy to report that Dark Clusters is now published in the February 2010 issue of Flutter Magazine.
Fractal created in Apophysis.
mimetic
sketch of age old myth
shape shifting
I'm happy to report that Dark Clusters is now published in the February 2010 issue of Flutter Magazine.
Fractal created in Apophysis.
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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