tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58984890196469583432024-02-20T00:03:20.555-06:00Poetry with me ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger524125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-77507513403770750712011-06-06T17:21:00.000-05:002011-06-06T17:21:41.828-05:00*A New Blog*I've started a new blog at wordpress. I'll still be posting here, but less frequently.<br />
The majority of my work will be going there. <br />
Here's the link if you're interested;<br />
<br />
http://wordsandthoughtspjs.wordpress.com/<br />
<br />
PamelaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-32927223411541953392011-06-05T14:53:00.008-05:002011-06-05T15:57:24.351-05:00"Leaves Regret" A Whirl of Wordling Sundays #7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rl_5WcrZffM/TevdDiwlGYI/AAAAAAAAAiY/a43RO3QOvkc/s1600/lucky7.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rl_5WcrZffM/TevdDiwlGYI/AAAAAAAAAiY/a43RO3QOvkc/s320/lucky7.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">It’s your favourite rollercoaster ride into the wind;<br />
spinning, it leaves you unafraid …<br />
a barge that drifts on an inky lake, <br />
you try not to undulate in its presence<br />
<br />
It’s stillness of common fear,<br />
confining murmurs of your heart<br />
contained within a purple basin, <br />
broken inside an abyss<br />
<br />
Gravestones have been erected<br />
in country to city outlines, <br />
worms burrow in ivy hillsides, <br />
capturing moisture from the night …<br />
lingering in the gaudy glow which<br />
now defines your life</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-28495922323200254362011-06-04T14:23:00.000-05:002011-06-04T14:23:15.521-05:00"Relating to Another" Writer's Island #23 prompt: Contingent<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is the soffit of beginnings<br />
When loving something completely<br />
a piece of it stays with you,<br />
a small exfoliated portion,<br />
its imprint left behind<br />
<br />
A filum that runs behind you causing<br />
mixed curiosities, sadness<br />
Every night you lose your feelings,<br />
only for them to return at sunrise<br />
<br />
Trying to mask outer mishaps <br />
whenever it is convenient …<br />
so compartmentalized,<br />
like your suitcase on a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1307215222_0">terrazzo floor</span><br />
by a wilted fern with a fly buzzing round,<br />
keeping time in spaceless anxiety <br />
<br />
Surrounding parity keeps <br />
severe situations from entering<br />
Breathing hangs heavy in stifling air <br />
Portions are erased but never lost</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-18683531581506393392011-06-03T12:44:00.003-05:002011-06-03T12:46:41.210-05:00"The Moon Through Branches" Collab #4 Breakers At Midnight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q295PKRfE4/Tekceky5PtI/AAAAAAAAAiU/GxgcFryxaFg/s1600/breakers-at-midnight-stars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q295PKRfE4/Tekceky5PtI/AAAAAAAAAiU/GxgcFryxaFg/s320/breakers-at-midnight-stars.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> He cries to a pale cerulean moon; <i>brightness is</i><br />
keeping an eye<i> forever frightful</i><br />
On the trees <i>we’re aware that</i><br />
branches sway to <i>something likely</i><br />
A subtle rhythm <i>may exist out there</i></div><br />
<br />
Process notes: This is a cleave poem, it can be read three ways. I wrote this in response to Elizabeth Crawford and Jinksy's "Tuesday Collaborative Image" prompt.<br />
Take a look over at http://claudetteellinger.wordpress.com/<br />
You might want to join in on the fun!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-11616907427817815932011-06-02T13:10:00.000-05:002011-06-02T13:10:25.875-05:00"The Park Bench" Poets United Thursday Think Tank #51-time-out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-627wtKm4EJY/TefRqy7XqJI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/q3lZZ-mqgOU/s1600/DOWNTOWN.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-627wtKm4EJY/TefRqy7XqJI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/q3lZZ-mqgOU/s320/DOWNTOWN.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> It’s your mediocrity that filled rooms</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and completed every yellowed page</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1307037844_0" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sound of your voice</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> was </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">as coarse as your thoughts</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Looking behind old closed doors …</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">they held answers</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Windows opened when closed tightly,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">paint accumulated in crevices,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">years of wear, and weather beaten</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1307037844_1" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fountains</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> contained no more water</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1307037844_2" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Funnels</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> were clogged from lack of use</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lyme built up visible from your caustic eyes</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You had verified all minor complexities</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">held deep beneath the surface, like twisting</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">wire frames that no longer fit the picture</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You never could’ve counted errors </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of missed satisfaction, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">or a dream of less perfect times</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">when you walked in those </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1307037844_3" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">empty spaces</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I can’t remember anything about you;</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">neither can the bench where you always sat</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-29573903492776001322011-05-29T14:42:00.002-05:002011-05-29T19:15:45.762-05:00"Comets' Tails" A Wordling Whirl of Sundays #6- Wallace Stevens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qwVnHJnWUqQ/TeKfGVblMgI/AAAAAAAAAiM/3JTO93iJR5o/s1600/wordle+6.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qwVnHJnWUqQ/TeKfGVblMgI/AAAAAAAAAiM/3JTO93iJR5o/s1600/wordle+6.PNG" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">She doesn’t feel when she should,</div><div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">preferring to sit cross-legged against</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">winds, watching fire striding strongly </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">on carefully constructed stone walls</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">She doesn’t cry when she needs to;</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">instinctively she’s too afraid of</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">turning into something dismal …</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">like fallen leaves crushed underfoot</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">An inverse border of planets </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">lines her twilight</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">She has become a surrogate</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">in someone else’s play</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-13798016664030496192011-05-28T17:34:00.005-05:002011-05-28T17:41:47.614-05:00Waves, Dulcet Sounds writer's island # 22 - visual prompt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7LzbjetHsk4/TeF3_Y_qcII/AAAAAAAAAiI/4-pYyDzIuEY/s1600/michael-maier-emotions-love-fantasy-contemporary-art-post-surrealism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7LzbjetHsk4/TeF3_Y_qcII/AAAAAAAAAiI/4-pYyDzIuEY/s320/michael-maier-emotions-love-fantasy-contemporary-art-post-surrealism.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"> Flightless bound to the earth<br />
caught in a paradox<br />
Dulcet sound of a cello<br />
through horizons of mixed hues<br />
Barbwire fences keep her on<br />
the edge of a shore …<br />
music is solemn in its lone chord<br />
Waves move closer;<br />
she shares her wing,<br />
but not gratefully<br />
You wait for a melody<br />
Visits are lonesome brevity</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-14426667433503226352011-05-27T21:08:00.000-05:002011-05-27T21:08:02.015-05:00"She is Waiting"<div style="color: black; font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IY87yuieAME/TeBYwkwuNUI/AAAAAAAAAiE/y8TdZBpcgkU/s1600/emily+franklin+spain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IY87yuieAME/TeBYwkwuNUI/AAAAAAAAAiE/y8TdZBpcgkU/s320/emily+franklin+spain.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">George Donaldson's</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">All rights reserved</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><h1 id="yui_3_3_0_3_1306555448094519" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Model; Emily Franklin</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Taken in Sierra Cabrera, Spain </span></h1><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"> Indigo skies hang low in</div><div> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">stucco landscapes; she rests in a tapestry, <span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">tucked away somewhere deep inside</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">valleys filled with topiary …</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">a place to recline in silk and lace,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">leaning on rocks’ coolness, balancing,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">placing night behind her </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Shifting clouds in the background</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">leave layers on her silhouette,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">worn, loose and plaintive,</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">reposed</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-23087624553378026312011-05-26T14:40:00.000-05:002011-05-26T14:40:07.509-05:00"Bessie" Tuesday Tryouts with Margo Roby at wordgathering-cinquain<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bessie</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">milk maiden</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">small wooden stool</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Nebraska cold morning chill</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">butter</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-24713079795217083092011-05-26T13:21:00.002-05:002011-05-26T13:29:33.874-05:00"Life in your Room" Poets United Thursday Think Tank #51-chocolate<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="yshortcuts">Willows</span> rest in place under a dimness<br />
Big brass horns playing in a sad foreground<br />
Piles of chocolate on your table,<br />
consumed as it slowly melts in your hands</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
Fine down pillows, mahogany <span class="yshortcuts">bed frames,</span><br />
<span class="yshortcuts">neon lights short circuit at</span> 3 am<br />
Streets glisten from rain; thick air like casing<br />
Moisture fills your sleep apnea; sweat forms<br />
somewhere beneath your eyes furrowed sorrow</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A worn little puppet sits on your shelf<br />
It’s reminiscent of days now long past<br />
His clothes are torn and dirty, sewn little<br />
patches of gathered scraps; hope can’t hold him<br />
together. Watch the sunrise fill your room<br />
Look out your window for crows with black plumes </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-38900056082580269572011-05-25T03:55:00.000-05:002011-05-25T03:55:21.838-05:00"Gods and Flowers" We Write Poems #55 Everything, and how it began! / Tuesday Tryouts-Cascade Poems<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Journeys can bring happiness, but not destinations</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While grabbing halos, we pull ourselves up,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">meeting Morpheus in gracious prospect,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">changing the resonance of memories within</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A boundary with no limits,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">micro specks in concavus hands,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">like a comatose flower lying in itself … sleeping</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Journeys can bring happiness, but not destinations</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Theories of converged information</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">quieted by cacophonies of distance;</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">epiphytes drinking air and rain, sustaining</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While grabbing halos, we pull ourselves up</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dancing in tilted galaxies,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">ruby poppies surround Hypnos; senses</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">incongruous amidst curves and folds,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">meeting Morpheus in gracious prospect</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shattered suns on unfolding wings capture</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">shadows in profiles</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of faulted madness,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">changing the resonance of memories within</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-56747257417601119012011-05-22T16:18:00.002-05:002011-05-22T16:31:58.013-05:00¨Grapes and Scarves¨ Poets United Poetry Pantry # 50<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¨May the road rise to meet you, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">May the wind¨</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">blow across fleshy grapes with smooth, firm skin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Purplish hues hanging on strong neat vines</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I often wonder about green valleys”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">where you walk upon bursting seeds therein</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">France has always fit well in my backpack;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">as Prince moves rain to sweep across lush fields,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">your nightmares no longer are repeated </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">We dance through hula hoops spinning round us </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Get off the floor, pick up the silken scarves;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">place them in the holy washing machine </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">to watch whirling winding cycles slipping </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">perfection and unison like red wine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">being passed from decanter to the vine</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">* This prompt came from Donna Vorreyer </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">http://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/poetry-tow-truck-21-line-by-line/</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-30926952242617244792011-05-22T11:54:00.002-05:002011-05-22T11:56:53.990-05:00"Light No Longer Enters" A Wordling Whirl of Sundays #5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wmDOdyxQ_rc/Tdk_sWos_LI/AAAAAAAAAho/aCDjs3aSiN8/s1600/wordle+5.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wmDOdyxQ_rc/Tdk_sWos_LI/AAAAAAAAAho/aCDjs3aSiN8/s1600/wordle+5.PNG" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Follow the contours of gathered aspects …<br />
mapped out lines beneath valleys and mountains<br />
<br />
Stare into a dark rearranged cave of <br />
expiration, a hollowness exists <br />
you cannot see beyond; surrender lulls<br />
eyes half sealed with a waned void lifeless stare</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like a scream suspended in motion, utter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">tautness, rigid with no reflections, flight’s</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">coldness enters bones with a weariness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">muscles freeze in place, now inflexible</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Releasing angels of oxygen through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">an open yellow window, a painting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">composed of absolute and different hints …</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">no more to risk</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-66238733503373600682011-05-18T07:38:00.000-05:002011-05-18T07:38:15.770-05:00"Highways Intersect with Visions" We Write Poems #54-Take the Driver's Seat<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Trucks move on asphalt as it melts</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">under tire movements</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Glass glistening, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">set in weathered window sills</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In her future of</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a room filled with silver besoms</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Feelings,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">allowing one to miss certain bursts of recognition,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">not seeing anything;</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">it’s not here …</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">like a chorus of</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">voices that lull you to sleep</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">following sounds with depth </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">inside echoes of absolute silence</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Nothing is what it was before</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Misty drops grab your attention,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">drenching clothes</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">beneath wetness on skin,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">clinging for a life of its own</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Remembering what to like;</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">disregarding all else</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">People drop facial expressions when she passes, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">while trying to catch them falling in clusters …</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">maybe to be contained in an embroidered handbag</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">*Prompt idea, (which, I am not very good at):</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Observe and Report:<br />
<br />
In a week’s time we see many things. So, for this prompt,<br />
write down anything you notice that seems significant to<br />
you, and then compile the information and attempt to write<br />
a poem from what you gathered during the week. I sometimes<br />
do this and end up with interesting results (and other times not).<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-54382382413960848462011-05-15T14:02:00.002-05:002011-05-15T14:07:02.628-05:00"A Cup of Coffee and A View" A Whirl Wordling Sunday #4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nvh2xrlx0vA/TdAkOcRMZUI/AAAAAAAAAhc/tqM5y46X75s/s1600/wordle4.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nvh2xrlx0vA/TdAkOcRMZUI/AAAAAAAAAhc/tqM5y46X75s/s320/wordle4.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Hudson River has no rural landscape;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">as ferries pass you can hear the slurping of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">salty water splashing on bows</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All chimneys look gigantic as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">we eke out phrases,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">expecting others to understand …</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">while brandishing our textured visions</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A lift takes you up to a green cinder block loft</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">with infusions of Matisse paintings hanging on its walls;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">colours are filtered in the dim light of this city</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There’s a bridge that leads to calmness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">but we don’t know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">how to cross it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have substituted my tranquility for this panorama</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I stop to watch the buildings crumble</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-63496432622811094062011-05-14T15:53:00.000-05:002011-05-14T15:53:09.902-05:00"Sun on Arboretas" Poetry Tow Truck 20-My Chemical Romance<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">Herons are flightless in the simmering sun</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nesting by a languid lagoon the movement of</div><div class="MsoNormal">arboretas bend with glistening leaves as a breeze passes by</div><div class="MsoNormal">Kraals surround the outer edges of a scene where an ancient</div><div class="MsoNormal">xebec is approaching the village’s sandy shore,</div><div class="MsoNormal">rendering a delicacy to its atmosphere</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wDTEhWSuWuY/Tc7qc9IM0yI/AAAAAAAAAhY/6fFqz5pDZd4/s1600/periodic_table_of_elements1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wDTEhWSuWuY/Tc7qc9IM0yI/AAAAAAAAAhY/6fFqz5pDZd4/s320/periodic_table_of_elements1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Donna says;</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><strong>Exercise One: Starting Points</strong><br />
From the periodic table, choose a line of at least 6 elements in a row in any direction: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Write those letters/sets of letters vertically down the side of your paper. Use those letters as inspiration for the first word/words of your line.<br />
I chose He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn,; thanks for the exercise Donna. <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-61616080256282125712011-05-14T12:57:00.002-05:002011-05-14T15:59:23.072-05:00"Blue Selvage" writer's island #20-superstition<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A blue blouse adheres to</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">stitches, moving along the finest edges</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">of colours, exploding and vibrating </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">patterns, laid out smoothness </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hands slide, holding together beauty,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ease of fingers pressing with </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">great care … </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">a seamstress </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Give or grading matters most,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">constructing from selvage of fine material</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A top stitch keeps everything in position</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">while searching for a safe place to exist</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We tuck and gather to become the pattern,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">dancing to maracas’ syncopation</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">as we seek to be that blue blouse</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-11525767030257941902011-05-13T12:27:00.000-05:002011-05-13T12:27:39.401-05:00Parking Lots and Studios big tent poetry #48-borrow a line or two<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“The only word left is compassion”</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We hold it deep, often not releasing it until faced with strife</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We know blue is cool like water, red is hot, full of energy,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and a rock from a garden is green, representing fertility</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But feelings of sadness visit when least expected </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">while walking down city sidewalks</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">looking at skyscrapers </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br 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life on lit edges </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">like dark clouds looming over figures;</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">that’s when your hands feel raw from the abrasive</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">wear on rough edges</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Arrangements fill empty parking lots </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">where Molly found her lost bonnet, </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">its ends frayed, containing no more magic</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spirals fill abandoned studios </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mandy wears lavender, a delightful aroma </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">found within leaves hanging on a horizon</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">“Marvel at the miracle of the ordinary”</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">* first line is Deb Scott’s and the last is Vivienne Blake’s</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-87549045456977518882011-05-11T05:15:00.000-05:002011-05-11T05:15:31.128-05:00"Sparrows Talk" We Write Poems #53-Centered Cento<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Barefoot, gingerly walking on the small, sharp rocks,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">naked along the side of the house</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">8 a.m., spreading sesame seed oil</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">over my body, Jesus, have I come</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">to this?</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A small plane passes overhead;</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I look upward as if it made sense to</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">look upward.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I cry when it’s fashionable to laugh;</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">now I’m not laughing </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Things are made of something and</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">go to nothing </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I only did to you what the sparrow did to you</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Poems:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"back to the machine gun" </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"As the sparrow"</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"decline"</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">*I chose Charles Bukowski because he is gritty, in your face and interesting.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can see what he´s writing and he's just really damn good.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-59367213592652417702011-05-08T14:04:00.001-05:002011-05-09T10:53:28.522-05:00Molecular Structure A whirl of Wordling Sundays-#3<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">River’s mist rises in the morning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">evaporation of water released</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">tiny molecules not seen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">seaweed tugs beneath the surface</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">it breathes as it slides and supersedes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">nature’s embroidered landscape</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-34497517699883789662011-05-08T12:41:00.005-05:002011-05-08T14:41:34.141-05:00"A Poem for My Mom-Sylvia"<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">Like a breeze on my shoulders <br />
warm and caressing, it’s felt<br />
Days pass in sequence, <br />
soft memories of your voice <br />
placed in daedalean packages, <br />
spun with silver and gold … <br />
your eyes of deep blue; <br />
pools of discernment<br />
Love and guidance filled my days, <br />
fain of your unselfish heart <br />
As my tears would fall <br />
you caught them in an abatis-shaped goblet, <br />
banishing them from the atmosphere<br />
You are missed </div><br />
* I borrowed the following words from Elizabeth Crawford @ http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/<br />
Elizabeth is having a word a day, wordplay at one of her sites. <br />
I wanted to write a Mother's day poem, and used three of the words she has posted so far. Thanks Elizabeth.<br />
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#4 Dae-dal > 1. intricate: complex 2. ingenious: skillful,<br />
may imply cunning, or cleverness 3. decorated with<br />
many things: especially natural wonders.<br />
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#6 Fain > happily: with gladness or eagerness<br />
willing or eager to do something<br />
compelled: forced by an obligation or circumstance to do something.<br />
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1 Ab-a-tis<br />
barricade: a rampart made of felled trees placed so that their bent or sharpened branches face out toward the enemy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-51536408995696087792011-05-07T13:24:00.000-05:002011-05-07T13:24:00.247-05:00"Winter Passes Through Summer" Writer's Island #19-Season<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A room filled with candles </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">keeping vigil on baroque statues </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">sitting upon exquisite shelves … </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m descending a ladder that goes </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">beneath presence </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On a nearby beach with multi-coloured rocks </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">she sits listening to the oceans’ heartbeats, </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dancing around a gazebo with lattice coverings </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">filling with water,</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">watching waves rush over sand </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">where ships in glass bottles are smashing </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">against cliffs’ iridescent reflections </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My intricate gazebo’s crumbling, </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">as I’m trying to catch pieces as they fall </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All remaining icicles break before melting</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-47289243531753102902011-05-06T00:39:00.002-05:002011-05-06T14:31:56.855-05:00"Curtains of Existence" Big Tent Poetry - #47 revision promptBlack curtains have lifted,<br />
exposing, evaporating, extracting<br />
Stitches have been edged tautly<br />
Coiffure is smooth, sleek, supple <br />
My body is arranged precisely between<br />
The scarlet silken veil behind closed eyes <br />
No movements<br />
Nothing to be heard within, only a<br />
yearning to go on auspicious journeys<br />
That was the existence I cherished<br />
when amongst the living …<br />
longing, languishing, lushness<br />
Supercilious lines have entered lost vision,<br />
aligned on wires converging<br />
A thousand birds have come to whisper in my ear<br />
to tell me of my soul’s travel<br />
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*You'll find the original poem here:<br />
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http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-soul-rwp-120.html<br />
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I prefer the revision myself, though they are both a bit dark.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-24297453689041998542011-05-04T03:39:00.000-05:002011-05-04T03:39:31.586-05:00A Red Dress and High Heels #52=We Write Poems-Limits<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Life has never been inadequate, but</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">still you’ve grabbed edges of infinity </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">to move perimeters</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">so they aligned in the mind </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">of a flightless structure … </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">as it was perfectly endeavored </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Many days have passed </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">when I felt nothing </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">until I saw a bloom sprouting</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">from a small opening … </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">life began again </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Stars are merely aligned against</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the sky for gazing … </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So we may wish for something immense</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I should’ve worn the red dress; then </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I would remember what I’ve forgotten … or </span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">entwine it away forever</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898489019646958343.post-40989004723083570702011-05-01T14:01:00.004-05:002011-05-01T16:17:48.963-05:00"Words Fall in Silence" Wordle 2-A Wordling Whirl of Sundays<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bCNZk4wcLDY/Tb2-GMhedzI/AAAAAAAAAhM/dI_hWGz4Xl4/s1600/wordleb2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bCNZk4wcLDY/Tb2-GMhedzI/AAAAAAAAAhM/dI_hWGz4Xl4/s320/wordleb2.PNG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Never ending thrumming rifts in swiftness,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in richness spoken, sustaining me, teaching me to see … </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">gratefully eternal, to know without written labels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">metaphorically and grandiose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I’ve been engaging animated scenes, only</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">given logically to roses’ daily whispered growth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Revenge is done, it’s hoarded my sunshine;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">we die begging for such gestures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beacons have such similarities; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">therein, privately, I’m accosted by thirst</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I’m elegance converted and resilient</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in fortitude on landscapes of vision,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">left and done on the terrain in nights fallen, while</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sitting on hillsides questioning, scribbling </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Do zenith extensions send me to scintillation?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Under two separate habitations </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">where dusk nudges blessings,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in freshness holding death’s warmth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I Piqué to and fro in the boxcar of a lonely train until</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">my aching body will pirouette no more …</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">wearing kaleidoscopes in death, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">left jousted and caviler, spent alone</span><br />
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* I wrote this poem the other day using the prompt from NaPoWriMo<br />
Prompt #28 “translate a poem”. I used a poem by an Austrian poet, Alfred Brendel.<br />
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http://austria.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=493&x=1<br />
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This poem, however, just sat there staring at me, and when Brenda offered the wordle words I decided to insert the words, which meant moving a few words around, and this is the final result. Which has no semblance to Alfred's poem, whatsoever.<br />
Thanks Brenda.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19