Sunday, April 28, 2013

Prompt 270: Liquid

Thanks to Gillena Cox for this week's prompt, liquid.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013

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.



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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Saturday, April 20, 2013

And Even More!

Please be sure to e-mail your submission and any artwork to us by Friday before the posted date!
 

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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Sunday, April 14, 2013

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.) Look up please at Dictionary.com
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:Pleasedpleasingpleasingly.

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.) Look up pleased at Dictionary.com
"satisfied, contented," late 14c., past participle adjective from please (v.).
pleaser (n.) Look up pleaser at Dictionary.com
1520s, agent noun from please.
displease (v.) Look up displease at Dictionary.com
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: Displeaseddispleasing.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Prompt 267: Broadway

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