Prompt 58: Listening

Thanks to Laurie at April Wine for this week's prompt, listening. Thanks for sharing this poem and image with us, too.Sound of my own footsteps
Hitting sand on pavement
A cardinal’s call
The click of a camera
School bus passing
Truly listening
To the sounds surrounding me
Listening to the quiet
But not quiet
As I listen, I hear many birds
I am alone but not alone
For the birds are singing their song
Their praises for a beautiful day
Spring is on the way
Just listen

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New Prompts for the Future

Date	Prompt	Contributer
April 5-11, 2009	Listening	April Wine
April 12-18, 2009	Live Water	Sunflower Roots
April 19-25, 2009	One Word	Wayfaring Wanderer
April 26-May 2, 2009	Word	Silence is Poetic
May 3-9, 2009	Tactile	A Slow Road
May 10-16, 2009	What's It Like?	After the Pole
May 17-23, 2009	Tolerance	Kilauea Poetry
May 24-30, 2009	Dropped	Rooted
May 31-June 6, 2009	Denouement	The Solitary Panda
June 7-13, 2009	Intersections	Haiku Tuna
June 14-20, 209	Walls	Fledgling Poet
June 21-27, 2009	Assimilation	Rooted
June 28-July 4, 2009	Blue Rain	Just Writing Words
July 5-11, 2009	The Stranger	Virtual Tea House
July 12-18, 2009	Thinking	Jim's Little Photo and Poem Place
July 19-25, 2009	Inner Voice	Quiet Paths
July 26-August 1, 2009	Fragrance	My Poetic Path
August 2-8, 2009	Windows	Quiet Paths
August 9-15, 2009	Ocean	Fledgling Poet
August 16-22, 2009	Copse	Kitehorse
August 23-29, 2009	Allow	Tea Leaves 'n Honey
August 30-September 5, 2009	Blue	Fledgling Poet
September 6-12, 2009	Romance	My Poetic Path
September 13-19, 2009	Thirst	My Bellavia
September 20-26, 2009	Fog	Fledgling Poet
September 27-October 3, 2009	Colors	The Solitary Panda

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Prompt 57: Smoke

Deb Godin of The Cloud Messenger brings us this week's prompt, smoke. Thanks to her for the prompt, the image, and the poem below.

SMOKE

ah, nag champa smoke

pray: Om mani peme hung

breathe the breath of love

This photo is of the corner of my tiny front porch. It's not insulated, and can be very hot in summer and freezing in winter, perfect this time of year. I keep a lot of my treasures there where I can see them every day going out and coming in. There's bowls of beachglass, suncatcher crystals in the windows, and my growing collection of junktique mirrors on the walls. One of the belief systems I admire and am drawn to is Tibetan Buddhism. I have lots of Buddha statues and small figures all over my house. This statue on the porch is holding some thin reeds, and also doubles as an incense holder. I was hoping the smoke from the burning incense would show up in the photo, but only the small ember on the tip of the stick is visible, on his right shoulder.

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Prompt 56: Equals

Thanks to KiteHorse, who recommends "equals" as this week's prompt. March 20 was the vernal equinox, when day and night were the same length.

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Prompt 55: Farewells

Thanks to Nancy Bea Miller of Genre Cookshop for this week's prompt, farewells.

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Prompt 54: Fork in the Road

This week's prompt is fork in the road, which Geraldine of My Poetic Path suggested. Thank you, Geraldine, for the prompt, the photo, and the poem at her blog.

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Prompt 53: The First Anniversay of OSI: Circles

Edward of Forest River Journal offers this tanka and photo for the prompt circles. Thanks, Edward.

Somebody comes by,
He see stones, then builds something.
It stands for that day,
As we all walk by and see it.
Next day, somebody comes by....

Copyright©2009

Edward's photograph is entitled "Pieces of a Labyrinth."

Our thanks go to all of you who have shared your work here over the past year. Happy anniversary to all of us!

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Prompt 52: Twilight

This week's prompt is twilight, the time that immediately follows sunset.

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Prompt 51: Spectral

Gautami Tripathy of the blog Rooted offers these poems with this week's prompt, spectral. Thank you, Gautami!

hiding there-
yet aura makes known
of your presence

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musty old letter
bringing in tears-
tears me apart

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Prompt 50: Movement

This week's prompt is movement.

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Call for Prompts

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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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