Sunday, May 30, 2010

Prompt 118: Love

Love comes to us as this week's prompt from Cassiopeia Rises. Click here to read her fabulous take on this prompt.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Prompt 117: Floating

This week's prompt, floating comes from Loch Rob of A Small Look Inside. Thanks, friend, for the image and poem below.


The Sea 'n' Me

I am intimate with water
Cool sea, full of roller coasting waves
Riding through infinity on frothy foam
Bathing my body, refreshing my spirit
Effervescent arms capture me
Soul-quenching’s embrace.

Misunderstandings wash away
Holding to the truest light
Teaching me about trusting
Floating on my back
While tossing me to and fro
Hardly caring for my well being

Yet inside the depths is the profoundest love
That’s ever washed upon me
I rest like a babe in a mother's womb
Hoping that I will never fail you
Knowing you will never give me up for lost.
Endless breezes blow upon my face.

As the sun shines above, drifting
Many a creature from below pause
To see what consciousness floats above
Along a highway without roads
My insignificance lies beneath
The innumerable grains of sand upon your shores.

I yearn to understand the depths
Of your creation and existence
And why this one grain has any meaning.
Walking along your shores
I leave footprints in the sand
A legacy of decisions made, directions taken.

Turning to retrace my steps
With path erased by never ending waves
Onward I go, within the currents
Hoping the tide will drift my way
And a distant lighthouse will be shining
Showing me the way home.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

New Prompts!

Date

Prompt

Contributor

May 23 - 29, 2010

Floating

Loch Rob

May 30 - June 5, 2010

Love

Cassiopeia Rises

June 6 - 12, 2010

Icarus

Titanium

June 13 - 19, 2010

Oubliette*

Kuyerjudd
June 20 - 26, 2010 Dawn Leo
June 27 - July 3, 2010 Ochre

Nothing Hypothetical

July 4 - 10, 2010

Roads

gautami tripathy
July 11 - 17, 2010
Overt
JP/Deb

July 18 - 24, 2010

Preponderance

Dances With Loons

July 25 - 31, 2010

Angel

Yamini Meduri
August 1 - 7, 2010

Cocoon

Tammie Lee

August 8 - 14, 2010

Connoisseur

Amity

August 15 - 21, 2010

Beginning

I Rhyme Without Reason!
August 22 - 28, 2010 Pensive

the odd inkwell

August 29 - September 4, 2010

Empty

Snow White

September 5 - 11, 2010

Choices

naming constellations

September 12 - 18, 2010
The Passing
The Dark Lord














* Pronunciation: \ˌü-blē-ˈet\ Function: noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, from oublier to forget, from Old French oblier, from Vulgar Latin *oblitare, frequentative of Latin oblivisci to forget — more at oblivion Date: 1819 : a dungeon with an opening only at the top

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Prompt 116: Trembling

Nancy Bea Miller of Genre Cookshop brings us this week's prompt, trembling. Thanks for the image and poem, Nancy.


Rosebush in the breeze,
pink-hearted and poison-speared,
why do you tremble?

The Online Etymology Dictionary defines tremble thus:

tremble (v.)
c.1300, "shake from fear, cold, etc.," from O.Fr. trembler "tremble, fear" (11c.), from V.L. *tremulare (cf. It. tremolare, Sp. temblar), from L. tremulus "trembling, tremulous," from tremere "to tremble, shiver, quake," from PIE *trem- "to tremble" (cf. Gk. tremein "to shiver, tremble," Lith. trimu "to chase away," O.C.S. treso "to shake," Goth. þramstei "grasshopper"). A native word for this was O.E. bifian. The noun is recorded from 1609.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Prompt 115: Reign

This week's prompt is reign. Enjoy!
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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Prompt 114: Enigma

The prompt enigma comes to us from Wild Goose Scoops Moon. Enjoy!
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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Call for Prompts

Regular participants, it's time again to elicit prompts from you. Please leave your suggestion (one per blogger, please) in comments on this post, and we'll get the next list ready.