New Season, New Prompts

Date	Prompt	Contributor
September 19 - 25, 2010	Joie de vivre	Leo at I Rhyme Without Reason
September 26 - October 2, 2010	Monument	Ramesh Sood
October 3 - 9, 2010	Try	Snow White
October 10 - 16, 2010	Lonely	Harshad Mehta
October 17 - 23, 2010	Champion	Rob Kistner
October 24 - 30, 2010	Grace	Irendi
October 31 - November 6, 2010	Fancy	Brian
November 7 - 13, 2010	Pause	Pam
November 14 - 20, 2010	Echoes	Moe Lauher
November 21 - 27, 2010	Apprentice	Irene
November 28 - December 4, 2010	Meld	Patti
December 5 - 11, 2010	Free(dom)	Ms. Meduri
December 12 - 18, 2010	Win	Married to Singaporean
December 19 - 25, 2010	Stillness	Felicity
December 26, 2010 - January 1, 2011	Comb	Gautami Tripathy
January 2 - 8, 2011	Calmed	Jim
January 9 - 15, 2011	Abundance	My Poetic Path
January 16 - 22, 2011	Carnival	Rigel
January 23 - 29, 2011	Quagmire	Amity
January 30 - February 5, 2011	Evening	Word Actress
February 6 - 12, 2011	Humility	ρομπερτ
February 13 - 19, 2011	Incandescent	Tammie Lee
February 20 - 26, 2011	Top	Sandra.if
February 27 - March 5, 2011	Vellicate*	The Odd Inkwell

* Vellicate:

• tickle: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
• pinch: irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"
  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

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Prompt 132: Choices

Thanks to Joseph of Naming Constellations for this week's prompt, choices. Here is his poem, which he calls an homage to Robert Frost.

Pathfinder

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and yet they seemed unkind to me:
it does a traveler no good
to see the possum meat and blood
that stain their black periphery.

These asphalt snakes that loop the field
with broken spines in pallid paint,
they fester like a wound unhealed.
The deer and fox are well-concealed:
their shadows grey, their outlines faint.

No more they dare themselves to stray
across that tarry river in the trees:
nor did I wish more to go that way.
I cleared the brush like August hay,
to see the paths the clever fox sees.

Cars pass in the corner of my eye:
I creep alongside them, heel to toe.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I wanted neither to travel by,
and thus made my own way to go.

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Prompt 131: Empty

Thanks to Snow White for this week's prompt, empty. And thanks for the poem and image.

You Silver lining In my cloud of life.. You Ray of hope In my gloomy days.. You The rainbow In my colorless life.. You My teacher Of life's many hues.. You Who taught me Affection, care, happiness.. Fights, sadness, disappointment.. You Left me one day.. I realised that you taught me About all colors of life. You forgot just one color.. Emptiness

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Prompt 130: Pensive

The prompt pensive comes to us from Stacy Wilson of Inkwell Whispers. Here are her wonderful words and image.

quieter thoughts stones smoothed by the river

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Prompt 129: Beginning

Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason sends us this poem written by his sister, who also sends the image for the prompt, beginning.
Thank you, JSW and Leo!

I lay so barren No one to care For my soul An empty mind With no life A virgin beauty Giving birth to Unseen hearts I wait for love From the hands I hold lovingly From those lips Nourished daily By my bosom Endless a wait For those hands Rip my modesty Stab my babies Bare my heart Without regret Not an ear listens To my silent plea They continue To ravish my soul As each day ends Melancholy holds Heart in chains Intuition senses A return to past Beginning beckons As the final end

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Prompt 128: Connoisseur

This week's prompt, connoisseur, comes from Amity of Dreams are my Reality. Here is our friend's beautiful offering:

When I grow up....

I wish to be a writer and poet
My thoughts, feelings and emotions
Are my instruments to create a masterpiece
And I will write from the heart

When I grow up....

I wish to be a sketch artist
My imagination, crayons and canvas
Are my instruments to create a masterpiece
And I will draw from the heart

When I grow up....

I wish to be a painter
My illusions, brush and boards
Are my instruments to create a masterpiece
And I will paint from the heart

When I grow up....

I wish to be a sculptor
My hands, chisel and rock
Are my instruments to create a masterpiece
And I will carve from the heart

When I grow up....

I wish to be a pianist
My fingers, the notes and lyrics
Are my instruments to create a masterpiece
And I will play from the heart

When I grow up....

I wish to be a singer
My voice, imagination and flair
Are my instruments to create a masterpiece
And I will sing from the heart

I believe from the heart that....

Hard work, patience, inspiration
Imagination and creative juices
Are my other tools that come in handy
To craft a perfect masterpiece

I believe from the heart that....

Talent, interest and heart
The three in perfect unison
Helps me fashion a thing of beauty
And create immortal masterpieces

That would make me a connoisseur!

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Prompt 127: Cocoon

Tammie Lee of Beauty Flows brings us this week's prompt, cocoon. Here is her beautiful poem:

Born of Petals

imagine

being born in a cocoon made of petals

deep in the forest

treasures behold

petal by petal

cocoon takes hold

filled with protection

nutrition and more

essence is planted

her spirit and body are born

delicate

fragrant

sunlight imbues

pink lavender golds

body and spirit are fused

she

a blossom born of petals

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Prompt 126: Angel

Yamini Meduri of The Land of Dreams brings us this week's prompt, angels.

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Prompt 125: Preponderance

This week's prompt, preponderance, comes from Deanna of Dances with Loons. Thanks to DWL for this image and poem. (Please note that, although DWL blogs at Beth Patterson's Virtual Tea House, but she and Beth are separate people!)

The brittle brown edges disintegrate with movement
Yet, I will not stop moving.
The years may make me fragile
But the remnants find a way to coalesce
And so I persevere.

The preponderance of emotion as I age,
Is longing,
Monotonous slow aches
That painfully stretch into wanting.

You see, they are at war;
Emotional missiles lobbed between desire and trust,
A turmoil that rarely finds a truce.

I turn so that the wind of those projectiles
Is at my back
And all I can see is Now.

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Prompt 124: Overt

JP/Deb of Jane Poet - La Poessie Sur Une Mission brings us this week's prompt, overt. Thanks, friend for the poem and for the image. Both are outstanding.

Today’s poem is dedicated to the Overt, the wind that blows through the open windows

Free-flowing, uniquely distinctive
notes from a bass-guitared rasta man
for a cat playing the Queen of Sheeba
and ideas reborn as fertile land

set me free and find me wholly overt
this wind blows through wide opened windows
we are not out of context; this is real
the layered notes of fermented dreams

tilt Fresca wishes toward a grateful sky
set me free and find me wholly overt
this is everything, if not a Wasteland.

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Prompt 123: Roads

Thanks to Gautami Tripathy of Firmly Rooted for this week's prompt, roads, and for this poem:

Soup of Health

creamy roads on my soup
create an illusion of well being-
rains pour down my cheeks

rivulets of rain
go down the muddy drain
as soup keeps me sane

sanity has a price I think,
demolishing the creamy roads
as I eat the rice in soup

fork is completely useless
to trudge through those roads
I lick the spoon spotless

if I should die now
think only this of me-
she loved rich soups!

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Prompt 122: Ochre

Today's prompt is ochre, brought to us by Nothing Hypothetical. Ochre is a type of clayey soil, one that is much used in pigments,according to the Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Prompt 121: Dawn

Leo of I Rhyme without a Reason brings us this week's prompt, dawn. Thanks, Leo, for the poem and image below.

Deep in my eyes
Resided a dream
It made me whole
It seemed close
Yet much distant
Etched in my soul

Yearned it a lot
Wished to be true
Waited for the day
Obstacles jumped
I reached so near
But it slipped away

A moment stuck
That pain in heart
That despair within
Lost in this world
Felt hopelessness
Like drowned in sin

Dark night trapped
Thoughts of gloom
Wind relieved fear
As I walked alone
My burden lesser
Escaped a lone tear

The horizon bright
Revealed a smile
After night of pains
Burning once more
In my eyes the fire
Dream dawned again

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Prompt 120: Oubliette

Kuyerjudd of My Dreams up Close brings us this week's prompt, oubliette, and this wonderful poem. Thank you, friend.

Blissful Shades

Beneath the winding torrents’ glare,
A man lay sprawled with lustful gleam.
With half a mind, he dares to hope;
And half a heart that fears to dream.

Then light appeared in ghostly hues,
And he, beneath the ceiling’s wake.
Scalding rays—such painful ruse!—
Pouring heavily through the cracks.

Snow flew in like fireflies,
Which took upon his weary chin.
Blood stung fire across his thigh
And felt did he the pain—his skin!

Wished did he to God on high;
But hide he must beneath the earth,
For God saw he, a man of sin,
And hid from him the world’s one mirth.

For wrong it be to touch the sky,
And much more so to taste the air.
The man he lives in blissful shade,
Hoping, one day, God would care.

He saw no wrong in being he,
Yet there he sat beneath the moon—
Dripping water, vivid sparks—
Only hoping one day, soon…

Beneath the winding torrents’ glare,
A man lay sprawled with wondrous dreams—
That which God and Man can never see:
A dream to never fear to be.

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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 119: Icarus

Titanium of Element 22 suggested this week's prompt, Icarus.

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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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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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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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