With Sadness...

Hello, this is Sue's granddaughter Breanna. It is with much sadness that I write the final post for her blog. Sue passed away on June 6, at home and surrounded by family. She was a fighter who left this world on her own terms.

In her final hours she asked me to let her readers/fans/friends/followers know that "it was fun!!".

She spoke often of her blogging community and the friendships that were formed here over the years. I hope you all know how much you meant to her.

~Breanna

Wordling for Sunday Whirl #108

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

far above the mouth,

binding space to cave,

the sun chants a crooked vow

drones a darkened mantra

~ permits a broken promise

to bind to everyman's fist 

circling to its making

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Green for Woven Dreams #14

Thanks, Geraldine, for today's prompt!

green thoughts

sudden surge

new sprouts get short shrift

weeds win out

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Wordling for Sunday Whirl #107

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle!

too thunderous to count

messages spit across

the soupy sky

a thousand red charms

pulse from front to back

and round about again

like the sheen of time

dresses each crazed dish

the mystic signs for calm

but all eyes are on the

thunderous messages

spit across the soupy sky

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Acceptance for Woven Dreams #13

Thank you, Geraldine, for the prompt!

unchosen

serendipity

finely formed

A fractal

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #167

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the visual prompt!

 Young Woman Picking the Fruit of Knowledge, 1892 by Mary Cassatt

high stepper

stalks the flight of moon

glass ceiling

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #166

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

illustration by Helen Ward

crowns and suits

cooks' club après fête

where's waldo?

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Trust for Woven Dreams #12

Thanks, Geraldine, for this prompt!

banking on

a four leaf clover

lucky find

 a computer sketch

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Sunny Days For Woven Dreams #11

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt meme!

green risings

sun salutation

spring poses

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Siren for Magpie Tales #163

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt.

Woman With a Towel, 1898, Edgar Degas

ermine clouds

the final siren

disclosure

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Alive for Woven Dreams #9

Thanks, Geraldine, for this prompt meme!

vibrant tones

painterly palette

spring is home

 

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #162

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the following visual prompt.

Between Heaven and Hell, 1989 by Jacek Yerka

tubs and tools

where art thou, Julia

rising storm

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #102

Thanks, Brenda, for another fine Wordle prompt!

a humpback moon flows

over powdered peaks

unlocking shadows

from ancient pitted stones

fragile petals cling

to a staff of cane

lost souls call out

love is written but not read

and while she walks alone

the humpback moon

draws night from stone

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Remember for Woven Dreams #8

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt!

Last year

Easter snow

forsythia blooms

...scrambled eggs

 A fractal with a small blossom embedded.

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Janus for Magpie Tales #161

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

Not to be Reproduced, 1937 by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte

losing face

narcissistic fool

janus twist

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Buds for Woven Dreams #7

Thanks, Geraldine, for the Woven Dreams Prompt!

transforming  

medley of randoms

tiny starts

A fractal.

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Sketchy for Magpie Tales #160

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt...

Faun, Horse, and Bird, 1936
Pablo Picasso 

 

yoga chick 

blue spun overcast 

trojan horse

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Training for Sunday Whirl #100

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

the master die

lays straight the track

calls the train

to stretch from way back

a march to place

urging wordful hope

bound to dreams and

faint marks of change

thunders down the rail

to create  

one full share of days

for every street

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Music for Woven Dreams #6

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt!

mystic strands

a little scat,

baby blues

one long trill

jazz tunes my soul

by a warm thrum

of rhyming fingers

when happiness

is a little jazz,

a little scat,

and one long trill

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Keenings for Sunday Whirl #99

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle Prompt:

across the meadow far and away

the body

who sings those fearsome tunes

on no moon nights

echoes no love, sings no sweetness

nothing intimate, no last spree, 

where window parts of dark

ancient stars in free fall

shoot through fleshless paint

  

keening reserves the use to shock

outsiders who dare come hear and shiver

across the meadow far and away

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Award for Magpie Tales #159

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt!

Meal Beach, Burra Isles, Shetland by Robin Gosnall

etched in glass, one name
carved in time, marquee'd by light
one line on beach sand

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Attic for Woven Dreams #5

Thanks, Geraldine, for another fine Woven Dreams prompt:                          

attic

overhead

a pocket of stars

pulls them on

 A fractal this day....

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #158

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt.

photo by TheFoxAndTheRaven

the wrong day

she grasped at the dawn

no returns

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #98

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

unbalanced instant

borne from blue into

the blessed free

at first gasp

a snare opened

and with a slap

the dust unfolded

a wild and shaky ride

on her red Schwinn

she earned those wings

the training wheels

were, oh so far, behind

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Weave for WovenDreams #4

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt!

in and out

a warp and a weft

twist of time

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Dreams for WovenDreams #3

Thanks, Geraldine, for this prompt meme!

gardener

her nights harvest dreams

days resown

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Who Knew for Magpie Tales #157

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the following image prompt:

Venus de Milo with Drawers, 1936, Salvador Dali

implanted

storing bad and more

pandora

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Breath for Sunday Whirl #97

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt...

a breath

a pot bellied moon

a prophet on the fly

a discipline flung away

a patience pieced by limits

a compassion for the fall

a night steals tears

a sublime gaze delayed

a heroic moment lost 

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Transformation for Woven Dreams #2

Thanks, Geraldine, for the prompt: Transformation

Digital painting

daylight swells

double dark dwindles

season's drift

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #156

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the following image prompt:

Wind of History by Jacek Yerka

stamped flora

hangs on settling skin

mud treatment

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Wraiths for Sunday Whirl #96

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt...

imaginary fiends

scurry under naked roots

hide from fresh candlelight

that births a simple gloom

to frighten through the night

a subtle lack of doors

holds the wraiths inside

those ghoulish faces

imaginary fiends  

sent flying by the dawn

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Blue for WovenDreams #1

Thanks, Geraldine, for your first prompt:

 

blue layers

weaving in and out

herding ghosts

 A fractal.

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Scene III for Magpie Tales #155

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt...

artwork by Joseph Lorusso

exposure

the lights come up

it's a wrap

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #95

Thanks, Brenda, for this wordle prompt...

incidents from The Ball

she

courts the rare

leaves open threads

the warp upon a loom

she

bathes

in coral bubbles

from ornamental bottles

she

floats on Prada

dodges the breath of banal

seeks the next dessert

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #154

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt...

Central Library, Manchester, U.K., by Robin Gosnall

pillared posts

epic bungee jump

gone extreme 

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Second Hand for Sunday Whirl #94

Thanks Brenda, for the wordle prompt...

the same wish

time and again

sweet enough

to score proof

full grain straight

til she lost interest

pulled back, let it go

and without fuss

dealt herself

a second hand 

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #153

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt:

Charlotte Gainsbourg, AnOther

groovy times

e-platters of spin

iWorld old 

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Chimes for Sunday Whirl #93

Thanks, Brenda, for the prompt:

chimes scatter in the early mist

chatter in an eerie scale

notes curve tattered and edgy

beyond where straw skirts

the field and mirrored lights

rise to seek the raw dawn

small against the vast sky

she covers her eyes and ears

and hungers as a mother must

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Senryu for Magpie Tales 152

Thanks, Tess, for this image prompt...

two islands

he pulled his hand free

stepped away 

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #92

Thanks, Brenda, for pushing the pen...

she sings a song of sixpence

chorded in the key of wry

pearl drops of bones

hum a missing charge

beware that note is near

the air is sweet with dark

when art sings from the dais

sets the filaments ajar

a wire goes bad before

a filter blows

large chips of nothing

chorded in the key of wry

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Sale for Magpie Tales #150

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt...

shop window 

near ten mark strasse

wardrobe sale 

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Giddy for Sunday Whirl #90

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt!

giddy with fever

dull of breath

listening for the new year

i practice one small step

clarity falls within the fire

logs burn through     split

in a tumult of embers

the new year awakens

ventures out from black ash

giddy with fever

dull of breath

 

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