Prompt 209: Muse

I Rhyme Without Reason blogger Leo's prompt, muse, is up this week. Here is his poem:

What has befallen me?

I continue to struggle

to put heart on paper

when its rivers, flooding

break dams and flow

in unconquerable anger

in unquenchable thirst

become one with me

where the soul lives

Muse, fairest maiden

be kind to my longing

for my words do feel

dead, unseen by all

like the stillborn child

till you, lady of magic

get them alive again

and with them, me

for, I, do live in words

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Prompt 208: Elemental

Pam of Amputated Moon brings us elemental as this week's prompt. Thanks, Pam, for the image and poem.

Here is the Wind


here is the wind
rising from nothing
no birthplace or home
a nomad


alas—I cry
as it gathers its breath
the world and I
wait


and it pushes down
from the mountain top
through canyons and valleys
sounding its warning


cry out—I say
tell me where you go
I see trees fall
and waters part


still it rushes on
scouring brick
and stone
with a secret


held within
until the wind and I
join and rising
going nowhere


going somewhere
finding nothing
finding everything
stripped down


laid open
raw---
elemental


Pamela Olson, 2/17/12

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Prompt 207: Vital

Harshad brings us this week's prompt, vital.

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New Prompts To Take Us To Spring

DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
February 12  - 18, 2012	Vital	Harshad Mehta of The Space Within
February 19 - 25, 2012	Elemental	Pam
February 26 - March 3, 2012	Muse	Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason
March 4 - 10, 2012	Underground	Linda of Nickers and Ink
March 11 - 17, 2012	Confirmation	Tarang Sinha of Tarang
March 18 - 24, 2012	Miracle	Geraldine of Take a Happy Break
March 25 - 31, 2012	Transition	Ragged Glory of khichdi
April 1 - 7, 2012	Inbox	Teri Casper of Freshly Pressed
April 8 - 14, 2012	Wassail	Gyanban of Gyanban

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Prompt 206: Sour Grapes

Thanks to Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason for the prompt sour grapes and this poem:

if

life

felt lost

all hopes gone

and each dream afar

do we just throw in the towel?

and live with regrets

that each dream

seen was

sour

grapes

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