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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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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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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Blue for WovenDreams #1

Thanks, Geraldine, for your first prompt:

 

blue layers

weaving in and out

herding ghosts

 A fractal.

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O for ABC Wednesday

What a challenge it is to wait until after the morning oatmeal to search for ABC topics. Today, I found two that work together and caused me to laugh at the same time.

I learned that if a person is well versed in oikology (the science of housekeeping) he would be unlikely to locate oose (furry dust that gathers under beds).

I solved one by replacing my ordinary bed with a waterbed which goes all the way to the floor and prohibits oose. However, should a leak occur I'd have a bigger problem than a little dustbin of oose. It might require the use of oikology.

Do you have loose oose  or are you talented at oikology?

Image: Fractal O


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Y for ABC Wednesday

yantra - geometrical diagram designed as a meditation aid. This resembles the definition of mandala combined with mantra. At any rate, I can use all the help I can find for getting my mind into a meditational state and away from monkey mind.

yogibogeybox - materials used by a spiritualist.  I don't make it up, I just report it. There's not much more fun than words. Those which are rare and encase a giggle are such great finds. Have you ever seen this word?

A fractal image.

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X for ABC Wednesday

Xenomorphic: having a form not its own
 

I'll have to stretch this word to encompass my sense of waiting, changing form, shifting shape which now wraps my mind.

I recognize the feeling. In the past, it has indicated a 'treading water' time before a new phase begins. How many times I've done this. But this time, I have not a mind niggle of what comes next. And yet, I know, it will appear. Won't it? :) Tomorrow? It may be nothing more than changing the way I look at something or changing a habit which is no longer working. It could be any number of things. I'll be surprised.

Has this happened to you?

A fractal image.

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Wacky for ABC Wednesday

Thanks, Bre, for the word suggestion!

I've reached the age where the world looks wacky. When I was younger and heard 'elders' speak of the wackiness that surrounded us, it seemed to me that what was happening was 'normal'.

But now, crazed is the synonym I'd choose for this current phase of wacky. You're welcome to write it for Wikipedia it if you wish as that site has no specific definition.

At which age does wackiness veer from normal to weird?

A Fractal Image.

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ABC Wednesday

M could represent Mandala fractals.

This small interactive program   http://www.russellcottrell.com/MandalaExplorer/   allows you to create wonderful fractals in a variety of formats and colors. Each click brings a new image...it's mesmerizing. This is the Windows version.
 
 

I've just started playing with this and can tell it's going to be a great deal of fun! Do you think you'll try it?

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Poem for Big Tent Poetry

A Baker's Dozen

legend says
the thirteenth witch
frees the owlies

rabid shrieks
shear the night
stir the coven's twelve

a baker's dozen
makes the tipping point
sets off backstabbing

thirteen witches
whistle up the demons
so says the legend

 
 

A fractal image.



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Poem for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry prompts: This week we are going to try bending, maybe even breaking & re-stitching words together using Poetry Toys.


Playing with different resources while using my own words produced the following:

Cyclone of Stars

Orion's belt rises as he stalks the Pleiades
Andromeda cradle-rocks her stellar nursery
the bleeding hand of tides rises and falls
driftwood kiva reflects in a froth of pool

soft as dandelion parachutes in falling dusk
half an hourglass disguises the end of day
hanging on to the tail of a dream
a snarling wind unboxes a cyclone of stars

built like a house of cards, the light lets go
as if it had never been involved
in the last dregs of the passing
nightjars hieroglyph a song into the dust

 
 
 

A fractal image.

 

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Infomania for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday prompts with I


I have acquired infomania ~ an excessive devotion to accumulating facts.

As a kid, I yearned to live in a library where thousands of books were within easy reach. That desire remained and with access to the Internet, I've become my own worst enemy.

Afraid of missing something, I surf and skim, scan and seek until my eyes are red and my mind frazzled. Since no one asks, I keep filling my own mind with ideas and stuff until it resembles my closets which bulge with unnecessary stuff.

I'm not sure if there's a cure other than quitting cold turkey. Do you know?

 

A fractal image.

 

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Heedless for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry offers: Write a poem of science.



Heedless

a punched tin ceiling
stutters with stars
leaks pinpoints
on dry khaki hills

disguises the blind spot
where danger comes
where shadows rhyme
as the darkness grows

heedless of warnings
they cry in the night
their cities displaced
when science shuts down

A fractal image.

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Flare for ABC Wednesday

F for ABC Wednesday




Flare of frustration.

I can't be sure that the problems occurring with my Internet connection came from the current solar flare or malfunction of some unfindable byte, bit or thingy on my computer. Frustration flips and flops as my e-mail indicator shouts MAIL and nothing's there, blogs are slow as spring's arrival and frequent cutoffs are the norm of the day. My new 'free month of Netflix' stumbled, burped and failed off and on while I tried to watch Freakonomics.

Did you experience problems with the flare? Or was it just my day to fumble, fumble and re-fumble?

 
 
 
 
 
 

A Fractal.

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Tanka for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry offers a Wordle for prompt. angle, handle, rotate, blade, remote, grind, function, alert, cabinet, float, resistant, darkening    




resistant to peace
blades drop good sense on its head
darkening angles
grinding manners to a halt
malfunction alert comes late

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A fractal.

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Evening for OSI

One Single Impression offers the prompt: Evening

the hiccup

between light and dark

~ bats unroost

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A fractal image.

 

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B for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday



Bletherskate: a garrulous talker of nonsense


The word itself rolls across the tongue and fills the mouth with surreal pfft. Never have so many politicians and pundits spoken so much nonsense.

If BletherSkate could be abbreviated and assigned to names as a descriptive such as PhD or MA, it would save truth-seekers countless hours of checking sources or making bad decisions based on bletherskates' words.

Is there a bletherskate school in your area? 
 
 
 

A Fractal.

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Dead Woman Dance for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry prompts: Write a “dead man” poem springboarding from Marvin Bell

Dead Woman Dance

she tap-danced her dreams
triggering them on smoke and glass
watched the futures come and go
like Escher stairs on lies of past

a global bonfire
took her down that lonesome road
where puissance splintered legacies
lost existence to the eclipse

a new dark took the land apart
to relearn how to make a wheel
she beheld her dreams
collapse and smolder on the pyre

 
 

A Fractal Image

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V for ABC Wednesday

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 7: V is for.......very nice to be here!


Vigia is a nautical term for a navigational hazard marked on a chart although its existence and nature has not been confirmed  (from Spanish vigía reef, from Latin vigilāre to keep watch) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/vigia

It's no wonder my house is dusty, windows are smeary and snow remains unshoveled. When I found this word, I spent hours and hours looking for the representative icon and am nonplussed to say that I've been unable to uncover it. I haven't given up but I've also quit holding my breath. Surely, it'll show up soon.

Last week I posted a link for unwords, this week I found a word warning for maybe hazards. Is there a message there? Do you know where the vigia icon is hiding?

Fractal Image.

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Enough for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry offers a simple prompt this week: write to enough, be it not enough, more than enough, just enough.

Something set me off. Don't remember what it was but as soon as I saw enough, this jumped out, wrote itself and went straight back into hiding. So there. :)

Enough.

it's not what it is
it's not all good
it's broken things blowing

and the tap tap tapping
of a thousand nightjars
pecking life to death

a house of cards
the easiest target
of a wraparound wind

rent by greed and fear
it's like being pecked to death
by a thousand rabid birds

 


                                                                         

Altered Fractal.

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