Prompt 210: Underground

This week's prompt is underground. Have fun!

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Prompt 209: Muse

I Rhyme Without Reason blogger Leo's prompt, muse, is up this week. Here is his poem:

What has befallen me?

I continue to struggle

to put heart on paper

when its rivers, flooding

break dams and flow

in unconquerable anger

in unquenchable thirst

become one with me

where the soul lives

Muse, fairest maiden

be kind to my longing

for my words do feel

dead, unseen by all

like the stillborn child

till you, lady of magic

get them alive again

and with them, me

for, I, do live in words

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Prompt 208: Elemental

Pam of Amputated Moon brings us elemental as this week's prompt. Thanks, Pam, for the image and poem.

Here is the Wind


here is the wind
rising from nothing
no birthplace or home
a nomad


alas—I cry
as it gathers its breath
the world and I
wait


and it pushes down
from the mountain top
through canyons and valleys
sounding its warning


cry out—I say
tell me where you go
I see trees fall
and waters part


still it rushes on
scouring brick
and stone
with a secret


held within
until the wind and I
join and rising
going nowhere


going somewhere
finding nothing
finding everything
stripped down


laid open
raw---
elemental


Pamela Olson, 2/17/12

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Prompt 207: Vital

Harshad brings us this week's prompt, vital.

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New Prompts To Take Us To Spring

DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
February 12  - 18, 2012	Vital	Harshad Mehta of The Space Within
February 19 - 25, 2012	Elemental	Pam
February 26 - March 3, 2012	Muse	Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason
March 4 - 10, 2012	Underground	Linda of Nickers and Ink
March 11 - 17, 2012	Confirmation	Tarang Sinha of Tarang
March 18 - 24, 2012	Miracle	Geraldine of Take a Happy Break
March 25 - 31, 2012	Transition	Ragged Glory of khichdi
April 1 - 7, 2012	Inbox	Teri Casper of Freshly Pressed
April 8 - 14, 2012	Wassail	Gyanban of Gyanban

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Prompt 206: Sour Grapes

Thanks to Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason for the prompt sour grapes and this poem:

if

life

felt lost

all hopes gone

and each dream afar

do we just throw in the towel?

and live with regrets

that each dream

seen was

sour

grapes

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Please Suggest Some New Prompts!

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Prompt 205: Wrong

Thanks to Sandra of La Palabra Diminuta for this week's prompt, wrong. Here are her poem and image:

 

God could never be wrong
knowing how randomness goes
self confident He threw the dices
foreseeing the human track
made of volatile star dust,
humans could be wrong or right
clashing angles of deviation
parallel lines straight direction

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Prompt 204: Smile

Thanks to Geraldine of Take a Happy Break for the delightful prompt, smile.

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Prompt 203: Soul

Thanks to Irendi of Recklessly Me for this week's prompt, soul. Here is her poem:

The State of My Soul
 One cannot exist without the other
Eternally bound to one another
They are interwoven seamlessly-
Faith and Soul
Soul and faith.
Never pushing one ahead of the other
One never falls behind.
Working together for a common cause,
They advance.

Neither in heaven or hell,
Rather somewhere in limbo
Resides all that defines my very existence.
Faith and soul run,
Ever steady.
Weaving in and out of
 Potholes,
Obstacles and rest stops,
What was once a barely-there
Trickle,
Now a conscious stream of energy.
A ribbon along the wind,
It drifts on
Sight unseen
Fearlessly.

Soul sustains faith
Or does faith sustain soul?
One a coursing river of cool, the
Other a blazing stream of a flame.
Amazing one never
Overtakes the other.
The other never engulfs one;
A fusion,
 They silently pull
My centered self
Into obedience.

 My wildly beating heart
Knows the path
My faith-soul
Will take.
My brain is the variable-
Wanting logic,
Needing it, really
To plot my course.

The state of my faith-soul
Is in limbo.
Neither here or there, in
Heaven nor hell,
Dealing with the limitations
Of its humanity.

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Prompt 202: Invincible

This week's prompt, invincible, comes to us from Dryad of Invincible Summer.

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Prompt 201: Change

Harshad Mehta of The Space Within brings us this week's prompt to kick off 2012.

Thanks

…for remaining unchanged.

It was god’s blessing that we met.

I loved you,

You loved me.

Years have passed since then.

You have changed a lot,

I have changed a lot,

And the world has changed a lot.

Isn’t it a miracle that

You love ‘changed me’ &

I love ‘changed you’,

In this ever changing world?

It is God’s blessing.

— which has remained unchanged.

Thank God.

Harshad.

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New Prompts for the New Year

DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
January 1 - 7, 2012	Change	Harshad Mehta of The Space Within
January 8 - 14, 2012	Invincible	The Dryad at Invincible Summer
January 15 - 21, 2012	Soul	Irendi of Recklessly Me
January 22 - 28, 2012	Smile	Geraldine of Take a Happy Break
January 29 - February 4, 2012	Wrong	Sandra of La Palabra Diminuta
February 5 - 11, 2012	Sour grapes	Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason

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Prompt 200: Renewal

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Prompt 199: Inkpot

Inkpot is this week's prompt, thanks to Nessa of Vanessa V. Kilmer.

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Call for Prompts to Start 2012

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Prompt 198: Knight

Thanks to Amity of Dreams are my Reality for this week's post, knight. Here is her poem:



Beloved covert knight
Drifting away so sadly
You are my dear friend.
~*~*~*~

I thought that I knew you
But now I'm not sure

You used to be friendly
But not anymore

Each day we grow farther
Apart and I'm sad

We used to be best friends
The best I ever had.

At some point things changed
And our lives split apart

I wish it weren't us
I wish not this way.

~*~*~*~

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Prompt 197: Sapid

by Andrée Sanborn of meeyauw

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Prompt 196: A Fool's Paradise

Thanks to Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason for this week's prompt, a fool's paradise.  Here is his poem.

I am lost, forgotten in the world where I stay,
invisible, though I ain’t a million miles away;
No whispers behind my back, shouts more,
feel wanted at times, though mostly ignored.
After so many stabs, you’d think I’ve learned,
no good can come here when often spurned.
By optimism consumed, I’ve built on this lie,
that all friends are forever, even after we die.
Fool’s paradise, that’s where I always reside,
I cannot escape, cannot even say I have tried.

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Prompt 195: Seeking

Thanks to Harshad Mehta of Space Within for this week's prompt, seeking. Here are his image and poem.

All my
Hurts, sorrows and pains
Dissolved as your hands stroked my head,
Agitated mind slowed
Peace dawned and
Coolness felt.
Love kindled
Smile returned.

Searching
For that magic
That will turn my tears into smile,
In books and knowledge
In wealth and power
In people and relationships…..

Search
Is eternal.

If you happen to find,
Hold on, don’t let go
For your life.

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