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Shadorma is a Spanish 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5
an unknown
opportunity
came and went
no knocking
on the proverbial door
last service notice
American Sentence ~ 17 syllables
Opportunity for service thrives while they continue to quarrel.
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Three Word Wednesday offers the following words for the prompt today:
Callous, Interfere, Persistent.
Thanks for the prompt ThomG!
I'll post an American Sentence first and follow with a Cinquain
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Persistent with false disclaimers, the callous interfere to mask truth.
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Callous
sham disclaimers
persistent party line
interfere with reality
warp truth
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♥~~~♥~~~♥
Heads or Tails prompts with 'This Time Of Year'. Make a post telling what you do or don't like about this time of year.
I spun a few American Sentences (follow the link to read about this form) and here is a source to help count syllables (or words).
Winter is beautiful but it comes in bites too large to chew.
Today winter is four white feet high and it's continuing to fall down.
I love long summers but winter captures my heart for twenty minutes.
Mail, guests, planes and cities full of snow plows are held captive by downfall.
Snow is building up to a perma-winter, shoulder high and counting.
Cabin fever comes ahead of the Solstice ~ lingers til Equinox
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Happy Holidays
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He rarely hesitates when one dash of neglect will make her jealous.
The 17-syllable sentence above is an American Sentence. An interesting exercise.
The image was created in Adobe Photoshop with Bamboo Fun.
Thanks to ThomG at 3 Word Wednesday for the prompt words of hesitate, neglect and jealous...
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Before I had my fill of Phil, he hit the road with her and left his dirty clothes with me.
(A short story in one American Sentence) The image was created on Bamboo Fun.
Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the following prompt for today ~ HEADS - Fill *OR* TAILS - Phil. Please feel free to join in the fun at this meme.
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Skittles at Heads or Tails offers this prompt:
HEADS - Wear *or* TAILS - Where
My response, which is both an Occidental senyru and an American Sentence:
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no where is wear more
evident than on the head
where I wear my face
♥
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer.
Zest for big bucks and
a dazzling trinket
will soon dissolve
the market.
The Sunday Scribblings prompt: Miscellaneous. Here are four American Sentences that I wrote in the last few days, prompted by life and snow. Mini-scribblings plus a fractal.
American Sentences:
Wise turkey draped in peacock drag to escape the butcher's chopping block.
Snow falls all night, morning's pseudo drivers scatter cars from left to right.
The one thing that stands between me and death is a smattering of life.
The ocean reminds me that much is infinite and much more is not.
North of Summer is available at my storefront on Lulu Publishing
naive pundits
demean their station
...inane gossip
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chav's
cheap
chatter
cheers naive
chips fact from gossip
cheeky rancor trashed the station
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One analyst on every news program keeps truthiness at bay.
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3Word Wednesday Prompt
I'm still fooling around with American Sentences! Comments welcome...
Prompt words: button, luck, pretend from 3WW
Button up, turn back and pretend you didn't draw luck from that black cat.
Pretend one button of luck merits more than a decade of tough work.
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer
An American Sentence using Poefusion's Friday 5 prompt words: gilt, trace, scrivener, parapet, distal.
Near the parapet's distal frame, a monkish scrivener traced old gilt.
An American Sentence...
Curious feline watched gloom eventually yield a drowning shower.
Digital Photo by Sue - Raindrops by IrfanView
Prompt words: curious, eventually and shower...from 3WW
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer.
3Word Wednesday Prompt: closing, virtual, headlights
screen of Cyclops showed the contaminated rind of rotten lemons
Dulcinea knew graft when, with hard displeasure, she first sighted it
damage did not abate until the eighth year of the new century
when events began to fall into the sequence vitally required
and that crop of lemons calved from the diseased limb to permit healing
Prompt by Poefusion: dulcinea sequence graft rind calved
Fractal created in Fractal Explorer
Wishing you a perfect day...wherever you are, whatever you do.
American Sentences is an interesting site. Strangely enough, the sentence above might qualify.
Free Rice is a fine site, as well. Amazing how little it takes to make a difference in the world.
Original watercolor by Sue
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