Senryu for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales #34  The following image was posted by Willow on her site for the weekly prompt.





fiery reflections
echo the fragile chimney                    
a still life painting
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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K for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 7: K is for.....

kickie-wickie


The Oxford English Dictionary defines kickie-wickie as: 'a jocular or ludicrous term for a wife.'

This silly-willy word was used by Shakespeare in All's Well That Ends Well, so it isn't a johnny-come-lately to linguistic ludicrosity.

Mark Peters, lexicographer and humorist, is a contributor of language posts at MSN and you can find his articles at http://www.good.is/community/MarkPeters  and at http://www.good.is/post/whoo-hoo-linguistic-reduplication/

I must admit that I am not a wife but have heard few funnier substitutions. I can hardly imagine the word being used. Can you?
 
 
 
 

K image created in Escape Motions

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Haiku for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 135: Monument



double dark

scribed from emptiness               
marble slate

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

An Apophysis fractal image.

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Haibun for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry prompts: write about travel (real or imagined) using the haibun form




Archer's Target

A red, orange and yellow swirl of curl soothes the restless sky where Archer hides while soaring colors dance and wave with thermal loops.

linen string

with bright baited tail

bound to earth

The bobbin spins meters of freedom before gravity gives in and the swirl continues its final flight.

sand footprints
plaster of paris
trail of tears

 
 

A fractal image.

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A Fib for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales Willow offers this image as the prompt.

sneeze
sneeze
old scent
parmesan
sneaks past the sniffer
sprays gold and green toilet water

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A jestful fibonacci. 

 

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Senryu for 3WW

Senryu for Three Word Wednesday   Thanks, ThomG!



she slackens her gait
nudges it to no-wander
winter cold ripens

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

A Fractal.

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J for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 7: 'J'

Jell-O creates giggling youngsters using cookie cutters to design hand-held Jigglers. When that method isn't imaginative enough, a plastic fork or knife can render an uncommon form which is eyed with jealousy by the next would-be artist. Colors, swirls, fun and joy. And, of course, easy-O.

For oldsters who tipple: Jell-O shots are highly joyful.

And whodathunk? A Jell-O Museum in New York - http://www.jellogallery.org/

The image is from the Kraft Jell-O website:  http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/jell-o-jigglers-53920.aspx I chose a simple image but there are some incredibly complex Jigglers happenin' out there!

Have you had Jell-O Jigglers? Don't you just love them?

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Weekend Child for BigTent

Big Tent Poetry offers the following prompt words in a Wordle: skirt, child, swarm, debris, dock, evidence, half-eaten, chant, embellish, answer, backbone, temporary



Weekend Child

she chants old rhymes

star light, star bright

a swinging Christopher

and a clingy skirt

fosters half-eaten faith
debris swarms the dash

temporary answers

give no evidence of love

her backbone weakens

behold the weekend child

An Apophysis Fractal.

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Haiku for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales #32      Willow offers the following image for the writing prompt this week.

white sand bytes

..grains of memory

repeating

 

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I for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 7: I

Ideas and a hard-work legacy shaped this tiny Camp Camelot into an idyllic spot to lean back, to remember and to share. Five generations have viewed sunsets and moonrises from this hand-me-down site.


Impossible to get to during the long winter months, it offers itself only to the brief summer when it shares the whispers of ever-changing dreams.

As my time of tenure dwindles to a close, I can't help but wonder what new imaginings will begin here.

Do you have an ideal place to share with family and the very closest of friends?

Digital Photo.

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Last Word for BigTent

Big Tent prompts to write of what you said, what you wished you'd said.

Last Word

along the river

of broken things

the vagrant wind

unearths a sea floor

its shore abandoned
old form ignored
while shadows rhyme
and danger falls

a rising hum of shells

breathes out my mouth

and scales the endless dark

do not cross my path again

 

Digital Doodle

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Outside In for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales offers the following image as this week's prompt. Thank you, Willow!

Outside In

cobalt

frames a fading summer

light

bleeds into the double dark

hem

holds tight the wistful vision

sun

warms wood while sinking

black

veils the inner sight

heart

takes cover from voyeurs

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H for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 7: H is for...


A traditional Hay(na)ku has  3 lines and 6 words (1 in the first line, 2 in the second and 3 in the third) and there are no restrictions on syllables or rhymes.

he
rotates hands
holds spy glasses











What could be more fun today than easy peasy play. Can you do this?
 
 
 
 
 

Digital photo.

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Choices for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 132: Choices

gifts and barb wire

mark the path of today

serial choice

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Manipulated fractal.
 
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Notes for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry



Watching as summer sneaks away, I collect scenes and sounds inside words -

Notes

like Zelda at the gate
a cocky strut of blue
crowns the fence top
dares the neighbor's zipsaw

drying leaves sift down
orange tomatoes hang for red
hard green pears dangle
droughty plums drop and roll

gray gleaners Pac-Man seeds
where weeds fall to earth
chatter like bratty kids
gimme, I saw it first

Sun Salutation considers
clouds building in the west
the sun feels warm
but shadow cools the mat
 
 

Digital Photo

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The Fall for Magpie Tales

Magpie Tales

The Fall

ready and rough

perfection imperfect

wabi sabi

 
 

Image from Willow.

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