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Q for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:24:00 +0000

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 5: Qis for......Questions and answers!

fiery leaf

teases gray backdrop

winter laughs

Quintessential is a word that sings to my ear.

Quintessential fills the cracks which remain when describing a particular something. Quintessential holds the essence of that something in its most pure and concentrated form.

The photograph is, to me, Quintessential Autumn.

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Haiku for One Single Impression

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:03:00 +0000

One Single Impression: Prompt 89: Departed
Thanks to Loch Rob of A Small Look Inside for this week's prompt, departed.

gold and sienna
lifted away like geese v's
winter's nude branches

skins abandoned
boxes collect her blunders
skeleton keys

in late hours
mistakes moisten her eyes
tide sweeps the sand

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer.

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Tanka for 3WW

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:33:00 +0000

ThomG, moderator of 3WordWednesday, offers these words today: obey, wither, karma

stifled by karma
she tacks hard to the starboard
failing to obey
she staked future on a wish
withered her labyrinth of days

Fractal created with Apophysis.

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P for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:47:00 +0000

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 5: P is for...Problems?

Pointillism. A form of detailed painting which is made by thousands and thousands of tiny dots. It's fallen out of favor in the recent years due to the massive amount of time and energy it consumes. A friend of mine worked on one for half her life and found that when it was finished she disliked it with a passion. Not a good thing.

I've never attempted it. Not long on patience and definitely short of dedication, I turned to watercolor because it often paints itself. A little water, a little pigment, a piece of paper and a few turns of the paper often manages to make an underpainting to be finished with a few broad strokes and a bit of negative painting.

The image is one of my first watercolors, an underwater scene, which I opened in Adobe Photoshop Elements to invert its color and then used the Pointillize filter. It shows a bit of the action required by this form of painting.

And that was the end of my patience.

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Haiku for One Single Impression

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:39:00 +0000

One Single Impression: Prompt 88: Shift in Time

a dither

at the cusp of then

nixes now

autumn leaves

fury of snowflakes

blink of time

shift of time
vintage transmission
Dynaflow

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer, resized in Irfanview.

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Adventure for Sunday Scribblings

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:22:00 +0000

Sunday Scribblings prompts: Adventure

This Broom is Parked

the gate is locked
drapes drawn tight
no bulbs leak light

I huddle in the dark
under a warming throw
adventure's lost its spark

a box of candy in my lap
I savor each and every bite
chocolate surprise delights

the candy box is empty
procrastination wins
old ghouls left without me

Fractal created in Apophysis.

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Tanka for 3WW

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:23:00 +0000

ThomG, moderator of 3 Word Wednesday, offers today's prompt: nightmare, vanity, incubate

sudden reflections
incubate in dark of soul
birthplace of nightmares
echoing those buried faults
shake up vanity and fear

Fractal created in MindBogglingFractals.

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O for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:56:00 +0000

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 5: O

Outstanding

Clad in autumn tones, a lone tree stands out in the October crowd.

It's far more common to see a small copse of aspen and quite unusual to find only a singleton or two.

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Haiku for One Single Impression

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:42:00 +0000

One Single Impression: Prompt 87: Elusive

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unseen line
between right and wrong
war and peace

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hovering
in cold empty plots
starving ghosts

♥

the stalk of loss
lingers in her shadow
withered garden

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Fractal created in Apophysis.

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Shame for Sunday Scribblings

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Sunday Scribblings prompt #186 -- Shame - I read once that there's only one emotion that is just as powerful in recollection as it is on the spot. You know, when you remember an instance of being happy or sad, you don't re-experience the full happiness or sadness you were feeling then, but when you remember feeling shame, you have a physical reaction and it's just as powerful as when it was fresh. Crazy. So, write something about shame.

Three Score and Ten

raucous ravens cluster
at a door stained by crosses

when nights turn long and
love goes absent

shame wraps her in a coffin
keeps her there 'til dawn

rude and rowdy ravens
growl guilt at light of day

where ravens crowd the gutter
to pluck succor from her heart

Fractal created in Apophysis.

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Read Write Poem #97

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:56:00 +0000

In keeping with the RWP #97 Prompt, this is an older cut up

she

pale as sandpiper prints

in a wrinkle of infinity
she flies at that easy hour
catches the potbellied moon
rides past a crescent of sand
seaweed laced
with driftwood beads
a blink of stars, a tiny smile
she slides out through the sky
on wings of sparrow sighs

The fractal image was created in Apophysis, marked up in Adobe Photoshop Elements on Bamboo Fun Tablet.

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Haiku for 3WW

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:15:00 +0000

ThomG, moderator of 3Word Wednesday offers the following words today: heartache, jangle, reckless

knight of heartache
spurs a reckless jangle
deja vu hums

Fractal image created with MindBogglingFractals software

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N for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:49:00 +0000

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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Poem for One Single Impression

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:53:00 +0000

One Single Impression posts: Thanks to Tea Leaves 'n' Honey, who offers this week's prompt, conquer.

Ides of October

black rips the sky
bolts her to a flash
a dry time thunders
somewhere north of fall
brings her colors down
bolts her to a flash
when black tilts the sky

Image is a fractal created in Apophysis, resized and buttoned in Irfanview.

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Junk for Sunday Scribblings

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:20:00 +0000

Sunday Scribblings posts: The prompt for this week is: Junk or Spam.

Junk? Maybe. But it's memory to me. Full to overflowing, my house is memorable, perhaps. Messy, for sure.

The six-year-old who visits here claims that I should get organized, but his eyes light up when he ventures into one of the storage rooms. A room which can only be browsed by carefully following a tiny trail through myriad open boxes across a floor covered with just put it here for now clutter.

'It makes me feel creative,' he confesses while digging through art brushes, old paintings, a series of palettes and watercolors, assorted books, magnetic word kits that spell poetry on metal plates taped to old tile boards, paper of all sizes and colors, a paper cutter that's sharp enough to sever fingers (or slash a robe – I have proof), tiles, magnets, glues and tapes, acrylic paints, fabric paints plus fabrics, strings of beads, blank canvas bags waiting for magic, a spinning card rack, face paints, sidewalk chalk, rocks, spare swimming suits, blank t-shirts, CD's yearning to hold home-made movies, ribbons, mirrors, frames, glues, pipe cleaners and left-over dowel sticks that turn into a young neophyte drummer's magic when they coax rhythm from an oatmeal box plus a biscotti tin and several new cans of PlayDoh.

I try to look at the bright side. Yeah, it's junk. But it sometimes makes me, too, feel creative.

*The fractal was created in Apophysis, resized in Irfanview.*

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Tanka for 3WW

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:56:00 +0000

ThomG, moderator of Three Word Wednesday, offers the following words for prompt: frustrate, indecent, understand

frustrated insect
indecent length of north-ing
snowbirds understand
she craves timely offerings
migration to the southland

The butterfly image was created on Bamboo Fun Tablet with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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M for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:33:00 +0000

ABC WEDNESDAY ROUND 5: M

Mirrors reflect life. But I use them to reflect light.

The corner where my treadmill waits is a dark and boring spot, mentally and physically. With the addition of mirrors it changes complexion and replicates many of the objects I value which are in an opposite corner.

Tiny craft mirrors are glued to ribbon or set into jigsaw pieces. The larger ones showed up on clearance tables long ago.

Mind you, I NEVER look into them ~~ I try to avoid breakage with a passion that borders on paranoia.

If, perchance, my face and/or body shows up in a mirror I glance quickly at that stranger, offer a pleasant smile and nod before moving away in a blink.

Do you always recognize yourself in a mirror?

*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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Haiku for One Single Impression

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:35:00 +0000

One Single Impression: Prompt 85: Talisman Thanks to Joseph Harker of Naming Constellations for this week's prompt.

talisman
pins the blueberry sky
Jupiter

♥

frost rimed charms
piled beneath nude trees
fall's fractals

Fractal created with Fractal Explorer.

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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Poem for RWP #95

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Read Write Poem #95 - Mashup

Dear Isadora

madcap friends bare the blemish
and guilt deals a pick-up pardon
sings havoc for interpretation

like a mindless curl of wind
where faults live unfettered, your
nude-foot scatter scores a flinch

shrug and pout swirl under scarves
fall across the void on that decisive ride
frittered denial points into the dark

in pursuit of wild in the key of black
you fold with the nub of night
dawn discards, steals a curtain call

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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Tanka for 3WW

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:16:00 +0000

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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L for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:17:00 +0000

ABC Wednesday offers the letter L for this week's prompt. Thanks!
Come play along...

Leaf

she discovered a brittle leaf

pale green and curled alone

picked it up and smiled

to find autumn in her hand

stretching her knotty fingers

she gently traced the veins

with hands that bore the signs

of seasons' multi-strings

limbs shrug off their leaves

when summer drops the light

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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Haiku for One Single Impression

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:14:00 +0000

One Single Impression: Prompt 84: Descent: "Thanks to Sue of Sunflower Roots for this week's prompt, descent."

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fiery leaves
fall from limb to land
shooting stars

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alpine creek
bounces down the hills
windblown song

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Fractal created with MBFractal.

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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For Read Write Poem #94

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:27:00 +0000

NADIR OF A SUMMIT

crisp suits and power ties
silken saris on pampered bodies
turn backs upon their own
for whom the axe now tolls

cleansed by camera’s eye
much as night hides the lie
they congregate in lands
where death is served as daily fare

those who'll never know
a stomach’s growl
and those who looked away
to birth a plague

silken suits and power saris
give swag to tarnished hands
indisposed to heal those
for whom the axe now tolls

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Tanka for 3Word Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:49:00 +0000

ThomG, moderator of 3Word Wednesday, offers the following three for prompt: ambitious, incredible, ugly

Today, a tanka:

ambitious rulers
spitting in the cold black wind
rapacious villains
spinning incredible yarns
the face of newfound ugly

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K for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:40:00 +0000

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

Well, wouldn't you know.

This bright little flower captured a spot in a patio crack and looked so appealing, I decided it should stay.

According to my best research I recently (yesterday) learned that it might be a Krigia dandelion.

I'll wait to be corrected by those who know plants and don't give their heart away to any weed just because it sports a cheerfully spunky blossom and requires no upkeep.

Anyone?

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