Prompt 284: Farewell

Farewell, One Single Impression. This is our last prompt for this blog. We hope you are able to find a new home . . . be sure to let us know so that we can help you publicize your endeavor. It's been a wonderful experience establishing a forum for your poetry. We made so many wonderful friends. Keep in touch! Sandy can be followed at Writing in Faith. Andree can be followed at her Facebook page, which is where she is hanging out most of the time. Leave comments this week for this prompt so that we can refer back to them if you want to get in touch. 

Bless you all! 

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Prompt 283: Circles

 

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Prompt 282: Change

 

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Prompt 281: Swoon

 Gillena Cox at Lunchbreak brings us this week's prompt, swoon.  Here is her poem and image:

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Prompt 280: Wrinkle

 

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Prompt 279: Demon

 

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Prompt 278: Fragile

 This week's prompt is FRAGILE.

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The Last Prompts

You may notice that the last three prompts for this cycle are suggested by us at One Single Impression. We are thinking that we are at the end of this journey and perhaps it is time for others to take over the management of this blog. But perhaps it is time for this blog to retire — we simply are not sure. Now there is Facebook (which we are not using to its full potential), Google+ (which we are not using at all), and other new sites and technologies that we honestly do not have the energy to engage. If anyone is interested in leading this group, e-mail Sandy or Andrée at the address on the right. Bless all of you and your talents. We have come to know you personally even if we may not even type to you or you to us. We are friends on Facebook and G+ and don’t want to lose those friendships. So let us know, and we shall move on through the next seven prompts!

 

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DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
June 30 - July 6, 2013	Fragile	Ramesh Sood of A Little More Than Ordinary
July 7 - July 13, 2013	Demon	Satya
July 14 - 20, 2013	Wrinkle	Haiku Tuna
July 21 - 27, 2013	Swoon	Gillena Cox of Lunch Break
July 28 - August 3, 2013	Change	One Single Impression
August 4 - 10, 2013	Circles	One Single Impression
August 11 - 17, 2013	Farewell	One Single Impression

 

 

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Prompt 277: Wrinkle

Haiku Tuna brings us this week's prompt, wrinkle.

Prompt 276: Dash

This week's prompt is dash. I began thinking about the various meanings of the word, so I went over to the Online Etymology Dictionary to track down its origins. I've included all I came across up to dashboard because I thought dashboard was interesting, if not relevant, and that's what happens when you open the dictionary.

dash (n.) 

late 14c., from dash (v.). Sporting sense is from 1881, originally "race run in one heat."

dashing (adj.) 

1801, "given to cutting a dash" (1786), which was a colloquial expression for "acting brilliantly," from dash (n.) in the sense of "showy appearance," which is attested from 1715. The sense of "splashing" is recorded from mid-15c.

dash (v.) 

c.1300, probably from a Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish daska, Danish daske "to beat, strike"), somehow imitative. The oldest sense is that in dash to pieces and dashed hopes. Intransitive meaning "move quickly" appeared c.1300, that of "to write hurriedly" is 1726. Related: Dashed; dashing.

dashboard (n.) 

1846, from dash (v.) + board (n.1); "board in front of a carriage to stop mud from being splashed ("dashed") into the vehicle by the horse's hoofs." Of motor vehicles, from 1904.

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Call for Prompts

Here we are again with a call for prompts.  Please leave a prompt in the comments section with a link to the blog where you publish your poetry.  Then, please check back to see when your prompt will appear.  Andree does a great job of posting a table with the dates and links to your blog.  Please send us a poem and a link back to you for this site on the week your prompt appears.

Thanks for sharing your creativity with us!

Prompt 275: Myth

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Prompt 274: Weak

Thanks to Harshad Mehta  of The Space Within for this week's prompt, weak.  Here is his poem.  Thank you, Harshad, for this contribution and your continued support.

Weak?

Driven to edge

By her hope

To be held in love

No complaint against those who pushed

Just sad, they are the ones

She yearned to be held by

Who else could?

With others she is careful

Not candid

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Prompt 273: Flow

Locomente brings us this week's prompt, flow. Here are Locomente's image and poem:  

Yes! That was the day

They had waited long enough

Oh! First their eyes met

Yes! First their eyes met

Then they cuddled each other

Now their fingers met

Yes! Their fingers met

They lay on each other's arms

And love flowed within

Yes! Love flowed within

Suppressed longing gushed outside

Love touched pinnacle

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Promppt 272: Rekindle

Anya's prompt rekindle is up this week. Keep the poetic fires burning!

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Prompt 271: Feel / Feelings

Jim's prompt feelings is up this week!

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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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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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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.