Sunday, April 25, 2010

Prompt 113: Fissures

Sandra of If: La Palabra Diminuta brings us this week's prompt, fissures, as well as this poem and image.


fissuring the rock

rain, sun, and Incas' hands

kept the secret locked


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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Prompt 112: Mask

Thanks to Dreams are my Reality for this week's post, mask.


We each wear such an invisible mask
To hide the true self, disguise the real thing
Some good, some pretty, some ugly, we bask

Behind the smiles hides she in angst
Yet projects herself a cheerful, happy being
We each wear such an invisible mask

She talks so bubbly, keeping all aghast
Yet conceals in her shell her mood upswing
Some good, some pretty, some ugly, we bask

She pretends to do a happy task
Yet sulking at work, eager in fleeing
We each wear such an invisible mask

She talks of romance and love that last
Yet bereft of love in act that is contrasting
Some good, some pretty, some ugly, we bask

She acts so strong, brave in such vast
Yet deep inside, vulnerable timid thing
We each wear such an invisible mask
Some good, some pretty, some ugly, we bask

Some notes on this post:

This is my 26th week at One Single Impression, hosted by Andree of Meeyauw and Sandy Carlson of Writing in Faith. Wheww....what an accomplishment...! Thanks to Leo of Symphony for ushering me here...:))

Thanks to the hosts, too, for considering one of my prompt suggestions. This week's prompt (Mask) is mine. I wish a great participation from all OSI writers. And I wish to be here for as long as nothing would hinder me.

Have a great day everyone!
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Prompt 111: Vicarious

Barely Living

"I exist, such like winds that blow—
Mere half a man swimming on air,
Heart, dangling precariously—
And empty; soul awry

A gust; and I fade into the nether—
Until memories faltering
rekindle their other half…
But til then, I can lie half awake."

"I can only wish, wish to see;
To feel the wind, your face—my life…
And not the sound across the fog—
Stifled breathing, resounding cries

Oh, how a person holds my fate
And that, my world and then my heart;
To want to live but cannot fight
the shrouds of time to see his eyes

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Prompt 110: Cognizance

This week's prompt is cognizance, and the Online Etymology Dictionary defines the word this way:

c.1350, from Anglo-Fr. conysance "recognition," later, "knowledge," from O.Fr. conissance "knowledge," from pp. of conoistre "to know," from L. cognoscere "to get to know, recognize," from co- "together" + gnoscere "to know" (see notice). The -g- was restored in Eng. spelling 15c. and has gradually affected the pronunciation. Hence, cognoscente (pl. cognoscenti), 1778, from It., from L.
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