Prompt 270: Liquid

Thanks to Gillena Cox for this week's prompt, liquid.

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Prompt 269: Twilight

Loch Rob of A Small Look Inside suggests this week's prompt, twilight.  Thank you, Rob, for this wonderful poem and this great image.  We appreciate your support of and participation in One Single Impression.

Dawning Day

In the ocean of an evening

Keeping watch along the shore

Between light and dark

Constellations, and so much more

Like a canvas painted

In shades of grey

Out from the shadows

So close, yet far far away

A handful of thoughts

Tossed into the nighttime sky

Grow old in the making

Forgotten, by and by

Watching time pass by the window

Day says goodnight and departs

Letters in a bottle drift away

Oceans of thought impart

So, I try to catch the light

But it gets away

I keep thinking

Will it come back another day?

Stars poke slowly out

Pinholes on a charcoal slate

Floating in the nightfall

Water in the waves won't wait

Frosty moonlight descends 

Breath hangs in the darkening night

Shadows the twilight won't free

Bow to an awakened first light

Morning flies on, the stars softly sigh

Raise a hand across your eyes

Pause, then suddenly realize

It's the dawning of the day

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DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
April 21-27, 2013	Twilight	Lochrob at A Small Look Inside
April 28 - May 4, 2013	Liquid	Gillena Cox at Caribbean Kigo Kukai
May 5-11, 2013	Feel / Feelings	Jim of Jim’s Little Photo and Poem Place
May 12-18, 2013	Rekindle	Anya Padyam of Poetic Endeavors
May 19-25, 2013	Flow	Satya Rekha of Locomente
May 26 - June 1, 2013	Weak	Harshad Mehta Space Within
June 2-8, 2013	Myth	Ramesh Sood of A Little More Than Ordinary
June 9-15, 2013	Dash	Gautami Tripoli of Rooted

 

 

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Prompt 268: Please

We are again out of prompts,so this week's offering is please--as in please suggest a prompt in the comments section and include the link to the blog where you publish your poems. We would like to feature your poem the week your prompt appears, so please plan to share your poem for us on that week once we publish the new schedule of prompts!

Here's some food for thought from the Online Etymology Dictionary:

please (v.) 

early 14c., "to be agreeable," from Old French plaisir "to please, give pleasure to, satisfy" (11c., Modern French plaire, the form of which is perhaps due to analogy of faire), from Latin placere "to be acceptable, be liked, be approved," related to placare "to soothe, quiet" (source of Spanish placer, Italian piacere), possibly from PIE *plak-e- "to be calm," via notion of still water, etc., from root *plak- (1) "to be flat" (see placenta).

Meaning "to delight" in English is from late 14c. Inverted use for "to be pleased" is from c.1500, first in Scottish, and paralleling the evolution of synonymous like (v.). Intransitive sense (e.g. do as you please) first recorded c.1500; imperative use (e.g. please do this), first recorded 1620s, was probably a shortening of if it please (you) (late 14c.). Related:Pleased; pleasing; pleasingly.

Verbs for "please" supply the stereotype polite word (e.g. "Please come in," short for may it please you to ...) in many languages (French, Italian), "But more widespread is the use of the first singular of a verb for 'ask, request' " [Buck, who cites German bitte, Polish proszę, etc.]. Spanish favor is short for hace el favor "do the favor." Danish has in this sensevær saa god, literally "be so good."

pleased (adj.) 

"satisfied, contented," late 14c., past participle adjective from please (v.).

pleaser (n.) 

1520s, agent noun from please.

displease (v.) 

early 14c., from Old French desplais-, present tense stem of desplaisir "to displease" (13c.), from Latin displicere "displease," from dis- "not" (see dis-) + placere "to please" (seeplease). Related: Displeased; displeasing.

Prompt 267: Broadway

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