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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For Magpie Tales #101

Tess Kincaid offers the following image for writers' prompt:

contemporary linking

fronts the muslin wrinkling

black and white alone, flesh

out the dulcet tawny tones

of an artful curve of thinking

the give and take of bending

while the sun sets on the west

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Haiku for Magpie Tales

Tess Kincaid at Magpie Tales offers an enigmatic image each week for a prompt bound to draw words from writers. This is #67, Banquet Scene with a Lute Player by Nicolas Tournier, 1625.


 

circling stellar flame

spins a limelight for coquette

sweet core of baroque

 

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Poem for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry offers a series of poem prompts. I chose number seven:




A Predicament


a murder of crows
binds a score of skips
edged in the gritty noise
of rocks in a creek

fractures ticks of time
in a mile-wide night
before a flash of wings
sweeps her near the tide

drenched in smoky mirrors
she arises
on the right side of night
her chronicle intact

Digital Image.

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Mirage for Haiku Heights

Haiku Heights offers:  Ananya suggests MIRAGE as theme for Week 32 of Haiku Heights.

veiled by mist
her doppelganger
...sweet and light


 

Altered Digital Image.

 

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Haiku for Magpie Tales #52

Magpie Tales #52   Each week Willow offers a delightful image for prompt. This week:

frigid feet
wait for spring color
string art trees

 

Image by Willow

 

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Atlantis for Magpie Tales #51

Magpie Tales          Willow offers an enigmatic image prompt each week. Prompt #51:

lava stones

wet and double dark

Atlantis

 
 
 

Image by Willow.

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Haiku for Magpie Tales #45

Magpie Tales #45  Each week, Willow offers an enigmatic photo to prompt the imagination.

love's icon

clouds embrace the sky

waving flag

 
 

Image by Willow

 

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Moon and Man for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry prompts: Write a poem inspired by work at Referential Magazine

I went to:

My Turn Out of the Box
Poem by Felicia Mitchell
Artwork by Melanie Faith
Abandoned by angels we wait our turn out of the box from Scott Owen's poem 13 Angels

and wrote this:

Moon and Man



the dark of moon
lightens her veil
between then and now

his headstrong hand
holds a scratchy pen
fiery as a butane torch

fine feathery veins
leak crimson lines
into the flames

word by word
smoke curls beyond today
toward December's moon

Not a dark of the moon photo.

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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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L for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 6: L is For!

Legend and Lullaby


According to the ubiquitous Wikipedia: 
'Legends are tales that, because of the tie to a historical event or location, are believable, although not necessarily believed. For the purpose of the study of legends, in the academic discipline of folkloristics, the truth value of legends is irrelevant because, whether the story told is true or not, the fact that the story is being told at all allows scholars to use it as commentary upon the cultures that produce or circulate the legends.'

Do you wonder what will happen to our blogs, posts and lives which are exposed to the mighty Internet? Is there a time capsule to hold our legends? Or will there be but a brief blurb: 'they came, they saw, they showed'.

I've tried to tell or write pieces of backgrounds for family members but there are many stories and maybe those which are most important will fall through the cracks.

 
 
Tomorrow's Lullaby                                                              

comforting and calm
as my parents’ hands
sunlight soothes my back

horizon pulls the sun

behind a giant pine

kaleidoscopes a shadow

across my tiny world

a yellow blink of bird

passes by without a song
but I yearn to leave
love’s lullaby for those who glide
in that space I leave behind


The image is a fractal with embedded digital photo.

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Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression: Prompt 96: Wanderlust  Thanks to Tammie Lee of Spirit Helpers for this week's prompt!

ridge ahead
hides golden treasure
racing on

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seeking    exploring
high, low, near and far
novel sights

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at the end
first site of the heart
welcome home


The image is a digital photo of a shadow on a DVD disc, altered on Bamboo Fun with Adobe Photoshop Elements, buttoned, resized in Irfanview.
 

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S for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 5: S is for.....

Upside or Down

a small slip of ivy
the heart of ess
curls round my thumb
fashions a smile
a sense of spring
symbolic and green

the original sin
shaped by an asp
morphs to blood stains
on spreadsheets and
scripts the bottom line
of snakes in the grass

sweet and sensual
serendipitous
curves to a spiral
the siren call
of the seasonal ess
a small slip of ivy


This edited re-post is a favorite of mine and I hope you'll enjoy it as well.
The digital image is a copper wire twisted to an S and photographed on top of a CD reflecting a window's light. Resized in Irfranview, framed in MS Digital Image Suite.

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N for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 5: N...



Nintendo

When my grandkids were young, they halfheartedly introduced me to Nintendo while smirks and frustration crossed their faces when I couldn't get the hang of the buttons.

I quietly purchased my own console and locked myself away until I solved each of their favorite games. When next we played, I can't tell you how much pleasure it gave me to whip their little butts.

They invited classmates to challenge me and cheered me on to win in a variation of that classic boast ~ my dad can whip your dad.

They advanced to the next system, the next, the next and then the next but those games didn't entice me like the earlier ones. They weren't as much fun and, believe me, I'm a strong proponent of fun which doesn't hurt anybody bloody.

Sometimes the Wii tempts me – I love the Bowling/Golf games and Yoga looks pretty cool but for now I'll keep my fingers nimble with the old game – it suits me.

In bursts of nostalgia, some of these grown grandkids drop by to play the old system and admit how they wish they still had their original consoles. I rarely sneer or smirk in front of them.

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Tanka for 3WW

ThomG, moderator of 3WW, posts the following three words for today's prompt: limit, fallow, vocal

fallow Palouse fields
fly gritty in the fall wind
squabbles rise like weeds
siblings spew vocal arrows
she spars to limit grievance


The image is a combination fractal, pen/ink and digital photo of a sunset.

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Poem for Three Word Wednesday

ThomG, moderator of Three Word Wednesday, offers the following three for prompt: velocity, eclipse, languish. Thanks, ThomG.

Cuts in Time

the velocity of autumn
whistles leaves from the trees
and summer comes to rest

light and dark pass in eclipse
night gains the upper hand
sun-long days languish

before ink can turn to dust
she writes the cuts of time
and takes her place in line



The image is a double fractal created in Fractal Explorer, manipulated in MS Digital Image.

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3WW and Naisaiku Challenge

ThomG, moderator of 3WordWednesday offers these words for prompt: yearn, sweet, collapse

confined yearn
unwinds sweet at night
bumps daylight
meets full blown collapse
bumps daylight
rewinds sweet at night
confined yearn

Image is a digital photo processed in Pixia and Irfanview.

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Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression posts: Thanks to Gautami Tripathy of Rooted for this week's prompt ~ dropped

jewelry
dropped from nebulae
hummingbirds



Image is a post processed fractal created in Fractal Explorer with an overlay of a digital photo.

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Haiku for 3WW

Random Haiku

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ubiquitous hats
burden heads of the ersatz
defy natural

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devoid of burden
natural indulgences
...ubiquitous dream

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burden of the glam
ubiquitous black dress
fails the natural

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cowboys' burden
ubiquitous black hat
natural style

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Thank you ThomG for the prompt words: ubiquitous, burden and natural on today's Three Word Wednesday site. Follow the links to play along with us!

Image created as watercolor with Bamboo Fun and Adobe Photoshop Elements...

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Just sayin' for Sunday Scribblings

Sunday Scribblings offers this prompt: What pressing matter do you have weighing on your mind? What would you like to say to someone? What would you like to say to the world? Or to yourself? What do you think is important enough to make people listen? What would make you say, "Listen up because this is important?"



This came up again today and seems to be something I want to say... I'll no doubt have something else in an hour or so. :)

I love receiving e-mails, but where are we headed when much of the population is educated by rumor or knee-jerk opinion?

Please don't forward chain e-mails that purport lies to be truth. If you haven't the energy to let Snopes or other reliable sources investigate for you, just delete the fool things.

And, when forwarding an e-mail to 35 people, hiding them behind bcc (blind carbon copy) makes it a little tougher for scammer-spammers to harvest your closest friends' addresses.

There. I said it and I'm glad.

And, I love you! No matter what.

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