Prompt 9: Flowering

Thanks to Rachel Green for this week's prompt, flowering.

Cherry blossoms
fall like fragrant rain
as I pass beneath

Here are a few poems to start the day:

The moment two bubbles
are united, they both vanish.
A lotus blooms.
(Kijo Murakami)

Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain.
A perfect evening!
(Matsuo Basho)

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

• Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.
  
• Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.
• Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.
  
• There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in One Single Impression.
  
• Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme.

Thank you and enjoy!

Prompt 8: Color

Tulip by Sian of Spin A Song of Sixpence

This week's prompt of color comes from My Bellavia.

Thomas' Artistic Prism He shares masterpieces, rainbows and smiles, painted with shades of truism. Love gathered hues and living color, there is no space for darkness here. His happy life goes on, ever missing shadows that cloud typical minds. 'Tis him, who shines in awe through a prism, coloring my world with his!

We also offer these haiku that treat the subject of color. Have fun!

Going deeper And still deeper — The green mountains. Santoka Taneda

Splendid affinity sun's great halo green leaves Sôen Nakagawa

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

• Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.
  
• Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.
• Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.
  
• There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in One Single Impression.
  
• Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme.

Thank you and enjoy!

A Gift from Sacred Ruminations

We received this award from Sacred Ruminations and pass it along to all who visit here as a thank you and a reminder of how much each of us values the interaction with and feedback from others.

Good morning world!

The poll was successful: 19 people responded:

• The pretty gray one in the box with code?  12 (63%)
  
• The ugly, long beta one with icons but without a box and no code?  2 (10%)
  
• The Blogrolling beta one with small text and code?  5 (26%)
  

Therefore, I have taken down the other two blogrolls. If you would like to put this blogroll on your site, the code is in the textbox underneath the blogroll on the sidebar.

Thank you for helping me know what most of you wanted in my highly scientific, unbiased poll!

♥ Andree

Prompt 7: Glory

Our blogging friend Gautami Tripathy of Delhi, India, suggests the prompt glory for this week.

How do you think of glory? As praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing? As fame? As a praiseworthy quality? Perhaps as a flower or flag.

We're looking forward to receiving the gifts of your creative minds.

Here's what Gautami offers us:

dawn casts a shadow
over valleys, mountains
morning's glory

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

child's laughter
touching cores of soul
glory of angels

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

• Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.
  
• Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.
• Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.
  
• There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in One Single Impression.
  
• Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme.

Thank you and enjoy!

American Religious Poetry Anthology

From The Religion & Ethics newsletter published by PBS:

It makes sense that the Library of America, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to printing authoritative editions of America's most significant writings, would bring out an anthology of American religious poetry. After all, it has already done excellent two-volume collections of both 19th- and 20th-century poetry, as well as acclaimed volumes by Whitman, Stevens, Frost, and Pound, and in 1999 it published a worthy and well-received collection of American sermons.

For the most part, AMERICAN RELIGIOUS POEMS follows in that esteemed tradition. The anthology contains works by more than 200 poets, from the Colonial-era Bay Psalm Book (represented by Psalm 19) and the Puritan Thomas Dudley (1576-1653) to Korean-American Suji Kwock Kim (b. 1968) and Wheaton College English professor Brett Foster (b. 1973). In addition, editors Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, reflecting the ambiguous place of American Indians and African Americans in the nation's cultural history, include two separate sections -- one of American Indian songs and chants and the other a brief collection of spirituals and anonymous hymns. (More here.)

Prompt 6: Stranded

At the suggestion of blogger Noah the Great, we leave you

stranded.

Here's Noah's offering:

Motionless

A leashed dog roaming
freely through a neighborhood,
without an owner,

has no sense of where
it is, or where it could go,
opportunities

remain unseen by
prisoners who have always
been locked up and held

away from freedom,
they’ve probably never heard
of it, so they can’t

know what they would want,
stranded, distant, stuck in place,
like rusted bearings,

free to walk away,
to find new paths on old roads,
staying motionless.

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

• Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.
  
• Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.
• Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.
  
• There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in One Single Impression.
  
• Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme.

Thank you and enjoy!

Views from Raven's Nest: Honored

Views from Raven's Nest: Honored

We would like to thank Raven of Views from Raven's Nest for the Excellent Award. She is a member of One Single Impression. Her poetry has been warm and funny (Laughter), hopeful with the promise of growth (Spring), loving (Circle), and warm (Kindness). I am so grateful that she participates because she has taught me a lot about poetry writing.

Thank you, Raven! We hope you never stop writing.

Updates

Hi Everyone!

I would like to tell you about a couple of updates I have implemented. I really need your feedback on what works and what doesn't. I may even put a poll up on the sidebar once in awhile to get more responses.

1. We have a website to collect photos, poems and other stuff. It is called (what else?) One Single Impression Poetry. It is still pretty empty, but I'm sure it will grow as time goes on.
2. I have added the code for the blogroll. But it may not work on your blog. I would appreciate it if somebody would try to add the blogroll to their blog and see if it requires a password. The code is under the blogroll.
3. I have added a new blogroll. This is a new blogroll from Google that shows the last time each blog was updated and the title of the post. I could have added a snippet from each of those posts but it took a lot of room. Each blog in the roll will open in a new window (which I really like). The problem? I haven't yet figured out how you can subscribe to this new blogroll.
4. We can always go to blogrolling.com blogroll like everybody is used to. Then you can subscribe and get the code easily. What should we do?
5. You can now subscribe to posts and/or comments with that new thingy in the sidebar. You have a choice of services (Yahoo, Google, etc.).
6. If somehow I have forgotten to add you to these blogrolls, please holler!
   

So please be sure to leave me plenty of comments so I know what you need, OK? Thank you! And happy writing.

♥ Andree