Tanka for Heads or Tails

Barb at Skittles, owner of Heads or Tails offers today's prompt: Heads - anything yellow

his sun is yellow
sky is absolutely blue
young sidewalk artist
chalk dust on his novice hands
an age-old dream in his eyes


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NaisaiKu and Fractal for Heads or Tails

Barb Skittles at Heads or Tails offers steam as this week's prompt...

jets of steam
fired at passing clouds
Ol' Faithful
vaporous as Cupid's bow
Ol' Faithful
fires at passing clouds
jets of steam


NaisaiKu and CYCLIKU! offer information about this fun form of Haiku.

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer.

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Naisaiku for Heads or Tails

Barb at Skittles Place, owner of Heads or Tails , offers this prompt: Tell how you think you or your life will be different in five years. Will it be better or worse? Why will it change?

In Five Years?

one-half a decade
swinging on a fragile string
future lays in wait
a yo-yo in a child's hand
future lays in wait
swinging on a fragile string
one-half a decade




Either of these links will take you to a page explaining this fun form...

NaisaiKu

CYCLIKU!

Image is a watercolor/pen and ink bookmark.

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Wear oh Where for Heads or Tails

Barb at Skittles, Heads or Tales, offers wear and where as the prompt.

she wears old wrinkles
red circle cheeks and square clothes
eyes the future, stays
stuck in the where and now
avoids the future,
red circle cheeks and square clothes
she wears old wrinkles

Naisaiku poem and digital photo by Sue.

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Hoodoos for Heads or Tails

Barb Skittles at Heads or Tails offers 'pile' as the prompt.

Hoodoos

naked piles of stone
stretch toward
skyborne canopy
totems carved
by deserts in the sun

I've always been fascinated by rocks, rock formations and the red desert rocks, in particular. The title Hoodoos links to the Wikipedia article.

The image is an original watercolor by Sue.

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Summer for Heads or Tails

Barb at Skittles, moderator of Heads or Tails, offers this prompt: TAILS - "Summertime memory" Since this is TAILS your summertime memory needs to be a real memory of yours. It can be a childhood memory, a memory from teens years or later. It can even be from last week.

BERRIES

her dirt bike kicks up a cloud
powders the ancient cedars
and masks the scent of berries
sunlight mottles the trail

one fat shadow budges
rising to hind legs like a man
snarly grunts and nose a-quiver
stages a standoff on the path

two wheels without reverse
and short of turnaround plot
brake pedal hisses a squeal
pitches it out like an overthrow

the brown bear drops to fours
and waddles into heavy brush
she breathes the sweat of fear
shifts to three, throttles away


This true summer memory was posted a couple of years ago but it seems appropriate for today's prompt!

My poetry books North of Summer and South of Winter are currently available at Amazon and, as always, available from my LuluBookstore in print or as download.

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Tune for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers Tune as the prompt.



I've never found a bucket that could carry my tune.

Strangely enough, my brother is an extremely talented song writer, guitarist who has created any number of wonderful musical CD's. He intersperses gigs in Arizona and Idaho with an annual Nashville show up. Do I feel envy?

Well. Not this week, I'm at the tail end of a cold/flu that's left me too tired to lift a bucket, let alone one full of tunes.

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My poetry books North of Summer and South of Winter are currently available at Amazon and, as always, available from my LuluBookstore in print or as download.

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Motion for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails prompts with Heads - Motion

A Quacker Trio in 12 seconds






They left enough feathers for a pillow but no eggs. I was pleased about THAT.

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Limerick for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tales posts: HEADS - "Down On The Farm" Make any kind of post using "Down on the Farm" as your prompt. Your post should be about things or animals that could be found on a farm.

A Near Limerick

there once was a rancher named Mel
worn thin by his farm in the dell
who in one fit of pith
moved to nearby Corinth
and gave up his hard work from h*ll


That's about all I know first-hand about farms. Well, actually, I guessed at some of it and took a snap of the rest. But I did once see a headless chicken body flopping. Arggh.

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Once Upon a Time for HoT

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers this prompt: TAILS - "Once upon a time"
Make a post that starts with "Once upon a time." It can be a real story or idea that you want to start that way, a fairy tale of your own, etc.

Once upon a time,

summer was long.
Once upon a time,

love was ageless.
Once upon a time,

she grew older and

the world began to tilt.

Once upon a time

it again became all right.

The abstract image is an original watercolor by Sue.

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Senryu for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers this:
HEADS - "Reason"Make any kind of post using "Reason" as your prompt.


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the sound of reason
has gone strangely silent
cost of cabin fever

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there's little reason
for most of what I do
that's all right by me

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The image is without reason, totally. A doodle in Pixia on Bamboo Fun tablet.

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Lists for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the following prompt:
TAILS - "List Three". List three things from any category. Your choice.

This is as REAL as I can write it, Barb, but it is written in lemon juice.

A list of three things I ♥ about winter.
1.
2.
3.

Because one can never have too many lists, here's another.

A list of three things I ♥ about spring.
1. winter is going
2. summer is coming
3. color riots


The begonia in the photo above was stunning. My younger daughter gave it to me a couple of years ago.
1. I took photos.
2. It died.
3. I'm sure there was no correlation between those two actions.

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Haiku for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the following:
HEADS - See *OR* TAILS - Sea
Make any kind of post using either "See" or "Sea" as your prompt. You can even use both.

flashing light
stands guard near the sea
skippers warned

Image is a bookmark sketch by Sue.

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Haiku for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the following prompt: Common

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top of chain
clad in crisp white shirts
common crooks

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common crop circles
encounters of the close kind
alien farmers

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Eye of Night, is a fractal created in Apophysis.

Post #600 on this blog - three year anniversary coming up in a couple of weeks. It's true that time moves quickly!

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Point-illism for Heads or Tails

Small dots, or points, of color are the basis for this type painting. The late 1800's saw the emergence of pointillism and it is still produced by very dedicated painters.

Too difficult for me, I instead chose my Bamboo Fun Tablet to paint these geraniums behind a fence and in front of a plaster wall for the basic image and follow it up with a filter applied in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

That's the easiest way to produce a painting of this overly-detailed style. A friend of mine, years ago, actually painted a pointillism scene. It took about half of her life to complete. Sadly, she didn't like it after she'd finished.


Thanks, Skittles, for the prompt of 'point' on Heads or Tails Meme. Hope you had a fun vacation and are in fine fettle for the coming spring.

I'd like to take this chance to wish
Rick a very Happy Birthday!

And Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Springtime Memory for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails posts this prompt: Share a Springtime memory.
Skittles also notes that she's going on a short vacation (Have Fun!) and Misty will be holding down the fort this week. Thanks, Misty!


Lilacs and Love

scent of lilacs
zephyr borne
calls me home

near the back step
the fragile bush
blossoms sweet

fragrant as spring
fresh and warm
as parents’ love

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Altered digital photo.

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Getting There - Heads or Tails

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not sure where it is
but I'm almost there
with a twist and a turn
I stumble and yearn
sure I'm getting there

I'll know when I'm there
I'll feel it in the air
but maybe I'll get
to the wrong spot ~
not at the place I want

I guess I'll just stay
right here where I am ~
pretend I got here by plan

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Thanks to Skittles at Heads or Tails for this prompt and for teaching me how to make html hearts. Follow the links to play along and read what others played with.

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Just in Case for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails prompts 'case or rhymes with case' for today. My response:



Maybe you have a small MACE cylinder given to you for protection by a fretful aunt years ago and with luck you've never had occasion to use it.

Here are don't tips if you want to know if it's still powerful enough to fell an errant assailant.

What I learned:

1. Never fire it into the oncoming breeze
2. Never watch to see if a cloud comes from the little disperser
3. Never test it indoors
4. Never do any of these in front of another party who will NEVER let you forget it

I can only assume that pepper spray works the same way because I'm not going to check.

In case you don't care for mace, I'm posting a vase, as well.



Image created on Bamboo Fun with Adobe Photoshop Elements and resized in Irfanview.

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Legend at Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails posts this prompt: Make any kind of post using Legend. She mentions that it's fine to think outside the boot box.

Legend. A foot or something? Leg End?

Maybe I don't understand the word. Some day when I master the art of multi-tasking, I’ll check its etymology. Well. Okay. I can do it now. Hold on.

Wow! I had no idea how complex this word could be so I’m providing the Wikipedia link so you can read for yourself.



But if it was leg end, this might be it - around December. This was a Bamboo Fun drawing using Adobe Photoshop Elements but the program crashed so I had to use a digital camera to take a screen picture before I re-booted.

I'm looking for a new legend.


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A Love Story for Heads or Tails

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers a near Valentine's Day prompt of 'A Love Story'.

This is way beyond something I can write, so I offer a quilted card which was a fun project made by slicing patterned paper into strips to build a heart. I don't quilt, either, simply because there's no delete key.

I wish you all a very happy Valentine's weekend - and I wish you all another happy and lovely year of bloggery.

Bre - wishing you a super celebration in Las Vegas! Love you, Kiddo!


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Thanks, Skittles, for teaching me how to make hearts!

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