Kismet for ABC Wednesday

Kismet: fate, destiny

I remember when this word was often heard. It sounded magical, mystical and happily maybe-ish. Now it reminds me to take a nap without feeling forced to take action because whatever happens was going to anyway. :)

In the 1950's, there were several movies and musicals which bore the Kismet title.

Kismet, as advanced by MIT, is an expressive robotic creature tailored to natural human communication channels and can be seen at this link:   http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/kismet/kismet.html

There is also Kismet software which is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.

And my new favorite Kismet: a Finnish candy bar of crisp waffle and nougat covered in milk chocolate.

Who knew?
 
 
 
 

K image created in Escape Motions

Original Watercolor Header 

 

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #59

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers a weekly image for writerly prompt. This week:

staring at myself
displeased with the puffy hands
the mouth full of thin
he brushed the daylight dark
and dyed me as a stranger

 

Magpie Tales Prompt 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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J for ABC Wednesday

Two days short of two years ago, I posted Janus for ABC Wednesday for the first time. I re-read it and discovered that nearly all of the commenters are still playing this delightful ABC Wednesday meme. I decided to repost Just for fun and because, in all that time, change has happened but some things Just don't change.


What Janus Sees


Pocked by nimble hooves
five o’clock stubble clings,
stubborn in wind-chilled sun.
One six-pack of scrub jays
scatters the silence,
tepid spring forces its way
upon the barren brow
defined by seasoned gray.

Pen and ink sketch by Sue.

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