X for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: X is for...

Xanthic - yellow, yellowish


Aha!

Breaking through gray clouds pregnant with rain, a bright xanthic orb brightens the sky and warms the shadows. A pile of shoes shed near the front door during cold and dark are now ignored in favor of rubbing sole to earth and feeling the purr.

Oh, yes, pour me a full summer!

 
 
 
 
 
 

Fractal image with florals embedded.

                                                                     

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Haiku for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 122: Ochre

artisan's delight

clay pigments the age of earth

sketch and swirl off site

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Watercolor sketch created on Bamboo Fun Tablet in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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Haiku for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales posts an image prompt each Thursday with a response due before the following Tuesday morning. A toothbrush, this week.

molars to paint play

in its twilight it transforms

a long standing friend

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A fractal image.

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What if...for BigTentPoetry

Big Tent Poetry prompt: Start at the top of a page, “I want to write about __________, but I don’t know how.”




What if...

I want to write about broken lives,

sad crumbs transformed from good

death that goes unnoticed

dreams that die in blood-soaked sand

the linear who threaten from a box

hate by rote and know no answers

faith that elevates evil and ugly

and screamers loath to offer sanity

failing infrastructure

and pain that knocks in the night

instead, I'll write about this iris

freshened on the fourth of summer

under a swirl of aging rain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Digital photo.

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Haiku for 3WW

ThomG at 3Word Wednesday offers these words as prompt: feign, virtue, imply

feign virtue

imply decency

~ Sunday hat

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Digital photo post processed.

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W for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: W is for Wednesday

Warning

I'm not sure how old this washing machine is  - but no matter how many times I fill it with laundry I never fail to wonder about the wording in this warning. Does it mean what it says, or does it mean what it thinks it says? The first two lines are so wise.

The third: 'Failure to do so...' confuses me. It reads like a double negative to me. Sometimes I think about painting that line out but what would I ponder while waiting for the tub to fill?

Digital Photo.

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Haiku for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 121: Dawn




summer storm

shreds the dark of night

 ~ dawn warbles

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A fractal image.

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Scissors and Knives for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales 19   Please visit the Magpie site to view the image prompt for which this was written and to see what others wrote.  This is a previously published poem  but it when I saw the prompt, it came into my mind and didn't leave.

Scissors and Knives

Young unblinking eyes
brand me a stranger
in that Frankfurt square
where shawled women
walk with unwrapped bread
and fabric bags of produce.
Outside a temporary rental
my landlord bends to clip the grass
with scissors used to trim his beard,
the same tool splits domestic hare
into Sunday night's entree.
Germans have shears
and a war bunker up the street;
the Swiss have army knives.

  Watercolor created on Bamboo Fun Tablet with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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Re-Sent for Big Tent

Wordle word prompt from Big Tent Poetry:
resent, praise, hungry, milk, cough, dull, stars, dangerous, comfort, part, dark




Re-Sent


stars draw pictures on the night
with a cough of milky light
into the shadows dark

creating comfort art to dull
the dangerous fear that strikes
within the midnight black

dawn gives rise to a longing
a hunger for a greater space
a stellar sky and a sudden breeze

she offers prayerful praise
for dark shadows calmed when
stars draw pictures on the night

Fractal image.

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Tanka for 3WW

ThomG, moderator of 3WordWednesday, offers the following prompt words:  meadow, erase, trace




thin lines of a trail
crop circles formed by fauna
night's grass kneels at rest
dissects the dewy meadow
sun erases all traces

Digital Photo

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V for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: V is for





Vegetables

Vivers in shades of ripe and ready.

Victuals straight from the plant.

I'm dancing with anticipation.

The viridity of being!

Last year's photo gives rise to this year's yearn.

Digital photo.

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Oubliette for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 120: Oubliette

thinking from a box
coloring inside the lines
wide mouth and closed mind
the tea and tunnel vision
creates her own oubliette

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A fractal.

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Pre-Release for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales offers an image prompt on Thursdays. Post response by Tuesday morning. Please visit the site to view the image.

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hexagons

cupped by honor's round

story sticks

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Pre-Release

silent stalwart pick-up sticks
upright in memory cup
wait to sketch the thoughts
she cannot carve

graphite safely disguised
as a functional tool
to dispense those views
she cannot share

erasers nibbled away
tips sharpened time and again
the cup will switch to empty
when her words begin to spill

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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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U for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: U is For ...

Under the Hoya


This plant began as a cutting from Mother's hoya after her untimely death twenty-four years ago. Its green leaves now wind in and out and all around to cover the entire window sill area plus a little more.

When Jen, who has been the main caretaker for this special hoya, mentioned that it was blooming, I raced to take a picture since it had been a long time since I'd seen a hoya blossom.

Good job, Jen!

digital photo

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Flight for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 119: Icarus

Flight

near the forbidden
chasing sweet dreams of freedom
she soared with no fear
too fast, too close and too far ~
failed wings hold a broken heart

A fractal.

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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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Roundabout for Big Tent

Big Tent Poetry prompts: Write about something you would love to do but have never dared. Maybe you are indeed a poet who lives on the edge.


Roundabout

her wildest dreams
dangle from
a thousand limbs
scene by scene

from nun to not
and back again
from poor to loaded
and back again

daring times
seized in bulky terms
until the reaper knocks
then stalks her cells

pulls her down
to ripple through the mire
life by the second and
full days be damned

stung by commonplace
she survives without thrill
but by prayer, one step up
and one step back again

Post processed fractal.

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T for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: T is for...

Oftentimes I thrive on doing things that cause anxiety in others.


Dandelions and I gave up our fight (I didn't win) and I learned to love thistles.

They each have such unusual beauty. And they require absolutely nothing. They grow without fertilizer, without water, without conversation. They just are.

It was several years before I actually connected floating thistledown with the actual thistle. Very like dandelion parachutes. How typical of me to avoid details.

Dandelions have many uses, including wine, but I'm not sure how valuable the thistle is. Do you know?

Digital photo.

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