Call for Prompts

Here we very happily go again!  We need some new prompts for the next few months.  Please leave your single suggestion as a comment with a link to your blog.  (This is especially helpful if you have more than one.)  Also, please be prepared with a poem to run on the One Single Impression home page on the week we run your prompt!

You can take a look at the list on the right to see what we've worked with recently.

Happy Memorial Day!

Prompt 170: Manifest

Geraldine of Take a Happy Break brings us this week's prompt, manifest. Here is her wonderful work:

Make a wish

Align it with your life

Never give up

Imagine and savour the outcome

Feed your dreams with optimism and light

Expect the unexpected

Seek like-minded people

Triumphant!

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Prompt 169: Rambling

Gerry of Strummed Words brings us this week's prompt, rambling.

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Prompt 168: Exhibition

The Write Girl  of Write in Motion brings us exhibition as a prompt this week. Here's her wonderful poem:

Eyes of velvet night
An exhibition
Of creation
Heavenly light

Twinkling joy
Abounding wonder
Star gazing
In celestial oceans

Lend your eyes
Bend your light
Envelope me
In the beauty
Rapturous night

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

• Post your poetry on your blog.
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Prompt 167: Love

Thanks to Harshad Mehta of Space Within for this week's challenge, love.  Here is his beautiful poem:

LOVE

Like a fresh breeze,

Coming without any notice

and stoping without any,

It blossoms on its own.

With love around,

Celebration is on.

Heart gets wings and

Soul is content,

Sunrise and sunsets are more colourful,

Moon more charming

And fragrance in air enchanting.

It is His grace that visits you

No one has control over it.

When in love you trust totally

But love cannot be trusted to be there, always.

So tender……

Efforts to retain it are like holding back

Cool breeze that lift your spirits.

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Lasting are

Marriages

Contracts

Relationships

Understandings……

Right efforts can keep it going

…..With cool breeze refreshing your heart often,

If you are

Open and Lucky.

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

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Prompt 166: Border

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

in the gaps
you create fences
shouldn't it had been other way round?
who am I voice it aloud
I, who stand at the periphery?
You know I will jump right into it
stand in the midst
speak all I need to

"borders are so passe"

© gautami tripathy

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Prompt 165: Place

This week's prompt is place, thanks to Yamini Meduri of My Insights...!

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Prompt 164: Shackles

Ramesh Sood of A Little More Than Ordinary brings us this week's prompt, shackles, and this wonderful poem:


To Live Like A Human Tree

O’ God from all the shackles
Let my mind become free
Let me grow in all directions
Just like an old tree

Let me bear the fruitsf
Of knowledge in every season
To bless one and all, from
Every caste, creed and religion

Let my roots become stronger
To birds of love branches be the hosts
And just like dry dead leaves
Shed from my mind unwanted thoughts

Unwise men may try to betray
Or even conspire to destroy me
Give me courage and the wisdom
To live like a Human Tree..

O’ God from all the shackles…

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

• Post your poetry on your blog.
• Come here and enter your URL into the inlinkz widget. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name or image.
• Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.
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OSI E-mail Was Hacked

Tonight, Sandy learned that OSI e-mail was hacked. The hack seemed similar to the Facebook hacks that I have seen for iPhones. In those hacks, you get an iPhone offer in the mail or IM. When you click on the message, e-mails with the similar offer are sent to everyone you know. Somehow our password was hacked and we think that some of you may have gotten these iPhone offers. If you have, we suggest you change your e-mail password immediately. We have changed our passwords and now our e-mail works again. Google stopped all activity on our OSI e-mail account when the trouble started, so hopefully none of you were affected. If you tried to e-mail us and don’t think we got your message, please re-send it. Our apologies to all of you.

Thank you —

Andrée & Sandy

Prompt 163: Reciprocate

Thanks to Eric of Bubba's Place for this week's prompt, reciprocate. And thanks for sharing a poem and image with us, too. We appreciate that!

Reciprocate

Stop-Go

Fast-Slow

Days run willy-nilly

Laugh-Cry

How-Why

Life can be so silly

In-Out

Shh-Shout

Backs that need scratching

Tick-Tock

Shepherd-Flock

Eggs that need hatching

Yin-Yang

Coke-Tang

Balance in all things

Red-Blue

Me-You

Pairings of gold rings

Ping-Pong

Right-Wrong

One begets the other

Push-Pull

Bear-Bull

A sister or a brother

Strive-Wail

Try-Fail

Perfection’s pre-occupation

Give-Take

Fix-Break

Life’s about reciprocation

Up-Down

Green-Brown

Melody and harmony

Ebb-Flow

Shrink-Grow

Overweight or boney

Read-Write

Day-Night

I’m a poem poster

High-Low

To-Fro|

Life’s a roller coaster

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Prompt 162: Epidemic

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Prompt 161: Hollow

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Prompt 160: Sarcastic

This week's prompt is sarcastic. The Online Etymology Dictionary tells us this about the word:

sarcasm

1570s, from L.L. sarcasmos, from Gk. sarkasmos "a sneer, jest, taunt, mockery," from sarkazein "to speak bitterly, sneer," lit. "to strip off the flesh," from sarx (gen. sarkos) "flesh," prop. "piece of meat," from PIE base *twerk- "to cut" (cf. Avestan thwares "to cut"). Sarcastic is from 1690s. For nuances of usage, see humor.

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We Have a Pi-Ku Contest Winner!

Kim Nelson of Kim Nelson Writes is the winner of the random drawing for our Pi-Ku contest yesterday! She is the winner of a framed 4x6 image of her pi-ku on a photograph. Congratulations, Kim! Her poem appears below.

At this time, because of the interest, I would like to give you warning of the Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Tau-Ku Challenge. This will be one day only! And again, a random winner will be drawn. Your poem does not have to be about math. What is tau? Tau is two pi, or approximately 6.28 (which is why June 28 is Tau Day). The rules of the contest:

• The topic is your choice.
• The format is:
  • 1st line: 6 syllables
  • 2nd line: 2 syllables
  • 3rd line: 8 syllables
• Use the inlinkz so that I can have inlinkz choose a random winner.
• Sorry — only one entry per person!

And that’s it!

Everyone’s pi-ku were so lovely that I am going to collect them all in one spot and post them as soon as possible. I hope you had fun with this challenge.

Have a great week!

Andrée

Kim’s Pi-Ku Babies loved Grow To Earth's bright lights

Pi-Ku Contest: Today Only!

En Syu Ritsu (The Circle Ratio)

from A Challenge for Pi Day: Write Your Own Pi-ku:

Tomorrow Today is March 14, 3/14, 3.14, or as it's known to many unlikely to have other plans, Pi Day. I'm learning about a few ways Pi Day is celebrated by so-called mathletes. There are pie contests and pizza parties. Those who can recite more than just three digits do so out loud to no one in particular, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco holds an all-day celebration. And some people, we understand, write pi-ku—haiku about pi. I say we take it one step nerdier and make new rules.

First line: 3 syllables
Second line: 1 syllable
Third line: 4 syllables

I hereby challenge all poets to create a Pi-ku for today. You may leave it in the comments or add your link below. I'm working on mine as I bake my apple pie! Let's have some fun! As an added incentive, I will use the powers of inlinkz to draw a random winner tomorrow morning. I am devising a rare, one-of-a-kind surprise prize that you will cherish forever! So get your pens and pencils moving!

You don’t need to love math to love Pi Day!

Prompt 159: Passionate

Thanks to Joseph Harker of Naming Constellations for this week's prompt, passionate, and this poem:
Aesthetics

This was the discovery of fire: when I,
for the sake of Art, held out that plump round fruit
and you snapped a bite with those perfect white teeth,

juice seeping from the corners of your lips. So red,
that we had to invent new words for it (oxblood, scarlet,
red of the screaming center of the hurricane rose)

and I took one slender finger to trace the droplets
around your skin. I predicted Pollock. I felt creation
rise in me like the lightning that comes in the evening,

dripped it down your naked chest, following hair-trails,
musculature, hipbone: that was what we found when
we took the lightning in both hands. It smoldered into

twin desires, twisted into the ladder of our DNA:
skin sliding over skin, the thirst for sweat and friction,
and color corrupting color, a need to re-create things

in our image. Arrangement of forms animates me. I am
one long paintbrush: the fruit bleeding knowledge
is my choice of expression trickling down your belly:

and if you'll permit, I'll call your skin my canvas,
making it up as I go along, letting myself burn from the
inside out, killing so many birds with one cometary stone.

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Prompt 158: Accidental

The prompt this week, from Rinkly Rimes, is Accidental!

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How to Participate in One Single Impression

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Another New Season Already? New Prompts!

DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
March 6 - 12, 2011	Accidental	Rinkly Rimes
March 13 - 19, 2011	Passionate	Joseph Harker
March 20 - 26, 2011	Sarcastic	Priyanka Bhowmick
March 27 - April 2, 2011	Hollow	Leo
April 3 - 9, 2011	Epidemic	Gaurang Rao
April 10 - 16, 2011	Reciprocate	Eric "Bubba" Alder
April 17 - 23, 2011	Shackles	Ramesh Sood
April 24 - 30, 2011	Place	Yamini Meduri
May 1 - 7, 2011	Border	Gautami Tripathy
May 8 - 14, 2011	Love	Harshad Mehta
May 15 - 21, 2011	Exhibition	The Write Girl
May 22 - 28, 2011	Rambling	Gerry/Strummed Words
May 29 - June 4, 2011	Manifest	Geraldine
June 5 - 11, 2011	Endure	Teri C

I wish I had Sandy's skills. She works full time, contributes regularly to several blogs in administrative positions (including this one), writes her own blogs, comments on other blogs, and takes care of her family. Sandy collected all of the wonderful suggestions that you sent for prompts and somehow managed to get it down to these choices. She has to watch the "old" prompts to make sure there isn't too much duplication (even though we have no duplication rule). Then she has to make sure names and URLs are correct. Then she sends it to me and crosses her fingers and says her prayers that I get it done on time.

Well, I got it done on time. Barely. I know how dedicated you all are to your art and I hope you have sufficient time to prepare and write. This blog has blossomed so beautifully that it makes me sing. All of you are so awesome!

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♥ Thank you all so much!

Prompt 157: Vellicate

Stacey of The Odd Inkwell brings us this week's prompt, vellicate, which means to

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

Above is Stacey's poem/image.

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Prompt 156: Top

Thanks to Sandra of the blog If for this week's prompt, top. Here are her poem and image:

first reading´s match up
nothing misses or surpass
we´re right at the top

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