Prompt 50: Movement

This week's prompt is movement.

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Prompt 49: Slowly

This week's prompt is the adverb slowly.

Nancy Bea of Genre Cookshop provides this classic by Kobayashi Issa to inspire you:

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!

(Translated by R.H. Blyth)

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Prompt 48: If Only I Had Time

Thanks to Gemma of Grescale Territory for this post, "if only I had time."

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Prompt 47: Fading Memories

Geraldine of My Poetic Path is back with an encore; this week's prompt is fading memories. Please visit Geraldine's blog to read her poem.

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Prompt 46: A Summer's Day

Geraldine at My Poetic Path brings us this week's break from winter with the prompt, a summer's day.

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Prompt 45: Skin

This week's prompt is skin.

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Prompt 44: Stardust

Lirone of Words that Sing offers this week's prompt and poem, stardust. Thank you, Lirone!

children of stardust
born from the cataclysm
of the death of stars

from disaster our birthright
as children of stardust -
to create life and beauty

so from the ashes we rise
singing our phoenix songs
bright children of stardust

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Prompt 43: A Winter's Day

Thanks to Geraldine of My Poetic Path for this week's prompt, a winter's day. To get us started, Geraldine offers the first stanza of a poem:

Chilled to the bone, the frosty sheer air.
Winter again, unrelenting, inevitably here.
The stillness of a new untouched morning,
Still ours alone to share....

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Prompt 42: Distractions

This week's prompt is distractions. Since we don't have a guest post this week, I went to Etymology Online to have a look at the history of the word. This is what I found when I typed "distraction" in the search box:

ecstasy: 1382, "in a frenzy or stupor, fearful, excited," from O.Fr. extasie, from L.L. extasis, from Gk. ekstasis "trance, distraction," from existanai "displace," also "drive out of one's mind" (existanai phrenon), from ek "out" + histanai "to place, cause to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Used by 17c. mystical writers for "a state of rapture that stupefied the body while the soul contemplated divine things," which probably helped the meaning shift to "exalted state of good feeling" (1620). Slang use for the drug 3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine dates from 1985. Ecstatic "rapturously happy" is from 1664.

Ecstasy. Go figure. Have fun, friends!

Sandy

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Prompt 41: Doodles

Thanks to Teri of Teri's Mandalas for this week's prompt, doodles.

Doodles and noodles
Lines, curves and tangles galore
Ideas and fun

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What are doodles?
The mind wandering around
While lines make the map

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Prompt 40: Welcoming

Thanks to Nancy Bea Miller of Genre Cookshop for this week's prompt of "welcoming":

don't worry spiders
I keep house
casually
~Kobayashi Issa (1763 -1827)

In Issa's haiku, "don't worry spiders...," unadorned language—without simile, metaphor, allusion, or other figurative elements—provides an amusing snapshot of some spiders and the human they live with. As in most haiku, conjunctions and connectors, such as "because," are left out and the logic is left for readers to infer. Often, two or more meanings are possible: here, for example, "keep house" can imply keeping one's house tidy, or "keeping a house" that is welcoming for all who live there, even the spiders.(from an essay by Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate)

Also, thanks for the photo, Nancy!

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Prompt 39: Childhood Memories

Geraldine of My Poetic Path brings us this week's prompt of childhood memories. Here is her beautiful poem on this subject:

The

first of

December

Thoughts of

Christmas.

Soon to arrive.

Expectations ran high.

Snow days and blizzards.

Making a list, checking it twice.

Then Santa's letter printed and ready to mail.

Christmas baking; heady, wonderful aromas.

Pageants at school, with costumes of many colors.

The tall lush evergreen, centerpiece of the season.

We decorated so carefully; each bough lovingly adorned.

With some old, some new, every one used and none forgotten.

The long days of dark December. Homework complete.

Sitting in the darkened living room; time alone to drift away.

Marvelling at the masterpiece of lights and shining ornaments.

Gazing far beyond to the magic to follow. Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Christmas eve: midnight mass and carolling.Treats aplenty!

Then the long awaited treasures afterwards.

The secrets of shining boxes and ribbons.

Finally revealed and always worth the wait.

Then off to sleep to dream of a perfect Christmas Day.

Happy and content, still to remember these childhood memories.

On

this

winter day.

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Prompt 38: Courage

Courage is this week's prompt, thanks to Barb's Haiku. Thanks to her, too, for the photo and for these:

boldness without bounds
courage of her convictions
-children's advocate

normally reserved
and non-confrontational
-tigress for her kids

great tenacity
have mothers of special needs
-unbroken spirits

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Prompt 37: Paradox

This week's prompt is paradox, thanks to Edward Gault of Forest River Journal. Thanks for these, Edward:

I wrote half tanka
Then wrote one half the next part
Followed by next half
And continued in this way
Until I got to the en

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Her smile was friendly,
She looked directly through me
-speaking policy.

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"I am always doing that which I cannot do,
in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso

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Prompt 36: Disguise

This week's prompt is disguise.
My apologies for having Mr. Linky up late!

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Prompt 35: Gift

Thanks to Janice of My Bellavia for this week's prompt of gift. Thanks, Janice, for the image and the poetry here, as well.

inside my card
"always strive to do the right thing"
- my father's words

constant through the years
his words
have guided me

more precious are
his words
than any gift of retail

and every time i use them
i dance with him
knowing he was right

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Sometimes, the smallest thing is the greatest gift of all. Today I remembered for the first time a day visiting my great grandfather when I was three or four years old.

unexpected memory
at the golden age of fifty
great grandfather's face

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Prompt 34: Never Ending

Gautami Tripathy of Firmly Rooted offers this week's prompt, never ending. Here is her work:

you ask to follow me-
never! ending this
unhealthy liason now

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Prompt 33: Gold

Thanks to Gemma Wiseman of "Gemma's 'Greyscale Territory' - Poetic Songlines" for this week's prompt of gold, this image, and for this contributon:

Precious earth metal
Happiness locked in a reef
Gold bars imprison
~
Precious earth flower
Free to grow and be adored
Sunbursts on Spring trees
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Gold banks or gold dreams
Stagnant greed or Nature's child
Gold locks or gold keys

Photo by Gemma Wiseman ~ Golden spring wattle at Arthurs Seat, Mornington
Peninsula!

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Prompt 32: Serendipity

Thanks to Barb of Barb's Haiku for serendipity, this week's prompt.

serendipity
tattletales and rivalries
secrets, shared and bared
keepers of my memories
my sisters are my best friends

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