Prompt 77: Copse

Kitehorse brings us this week's prompt, copse. Thanks, Kitehorse!

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Prompt 76: Ocean

Thanks to Sweetest in the Gale (formerly Fledling Poet) for this week's prompt, ocean, and for the poem and image below that get us started this week.

MERMAID

There lies an ocean inside my chest
A cosmic rolling of the tides
Each swell of breath a rhythmic crest
And in this place a mermaid presides
She skims atop my wrecks and treasures
Where gold coins wink and beckon
And grains of wisdom nestle
In oystered pearls that glisten
Where heartaches fuse to coral
Stinging plankton with their grief
While wild waves curl with churning thoughts
Then lap on shimmering sands to sleep
And the stars beam down
At the commotion, and seagulls
Hover with salt-kissed wings
Swooping with a listening ear
To hear her raw notes as she sings
She’s tossed, and rocked, and cradled
And tumbled endlessly
My precarious, sensitive mermaid
In the depths of my vast blue sea.

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Prompt 75: Windows

Christine of Quiet Paths brings us this week's prompt, windows. Thanks Christine, for the prompt, the poem by Mary Oliver, and the wonderful photograph. (Please visit her blog for a larger image of this magificent photo.)

Sleeping In The Forest

by Mary Oliver

I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

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Prompt 74: Fragrance

Thanks to Geraldine of My Poetic Path for this week's prompt, fragrance. Please visit her blog here for her poetic offering for this week. Thanks, also, for the photo, Gearldine!
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Prompt 73: Inner Voice

Christine of Quiet Paths shares this section of the Pablo Neruda poem "Ode to a Waterfall" to acccompany this week's prompt, inner voice. Thanks, Christine! And thanks for the beautiful photo above.

What I have given you,
will never be a burden,
because
what I gave you
was always yours,
the flower or the wood,
the word or walls,
food of fleeting
love, resting or burning
in our hands.
But all
I gave you,
all I give you,
all I extend to you,
will contain this secret
voice
of
water.

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Prompt 72: Thinking

Thanks to Jim Jim's Little Photo and Poem Place for this week's prompt, thinking. Here's his poem, and here is his photo.


Thinking

I've been thinking of times we had;
places we went, nice life we lived,
and the joys we shared. Thinking about you.

Been thinking of the home we made;
the house we found, children we have,
and the love we had. Thinking about us.

I've been thinking now that you've gone;
what did I do, where have you been?
I'm alone. Thinking about you and me.

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Prompt 71: The Stranger

"The stranger" is this weeks prompt, courtesy of Beth Patterson, whose blog is Virtual Tea House. Thank you, Beth! Here is her poem:

On any graced day
The stranger shuffles, glides, stalk, trails over a horizon
Gently pushing aside the lilacs obscuring hearts’ doors
Asking only an audience.

Photo: Watching the Bridal Party in Kashmir, by Bill Wilson

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Prompt 70: Blue Rain

Thanks to Lissa at Just Writing Words for the prompt blue rain this week. Thanks, Lissa, for the photo, too!

yesterday my mind refused to expand any thoughts
it has left me alone
to dwell inside this crumpled body
aching without reprieve
all day I hid underneath a black cloud
shifting my heels
I fell into a puddle of blue rain
and slipped into darkness
when I opened my eyes
everything has changed into one hue
when the blue sun came out
a strange amusement took over me

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Prompt 69: Assimilation

Thanks to Gautami of Rooted for this week's prompt, assimilation. Here is her poem:

deathless ghosts

in that deathless night
dark images dance merrily
undead spirits come alive
ghost graves shake
assimilating the dead air
heat of that night
goes icily cold

"I shiver thousand miles away"

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Prompt 68: Walls

This week's prompt is walls, thanks to Fledgling Poet:

Here is her poem to get us started:

We love building walls
Thank goodness for our doorways
That let the light in

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Prompt 67: Intersections

This week's prompt, intersections, comes to us from Haiku Tuna.

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Prompt 66: Denouement

Thanks to Floreta of Solitary Panda for this week's prompt, denouement. Here are her poem and photograph:

We begin at the end
Denouement
Resolution raises
Possibilities
Act II strings
Warm malaise
Questioning unknowns

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Prompt 65: Dropped

Thanks to Gautami Tripathy of Rooted for this week's prompt, dropped. Here is her poem:

dropped-
from my orbit
to yours

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Prompt 64: Tolerance

Thanks to Gina of Kilauea Poetry for this week's prompt, tolerance. Thanks to her also for the photo above and the poem below.

"Against Such Things"...

 

Virtue n.) Specifically, moral excellence; integrity of character; purity of soul; performance of duty... 


T olerance..from the top of the sea saw I hear you call- your hair in mid air looking down on me- 

O h tolerance, I say squinting.. is no virtue at all.. just patience, watered down ya see.. 

L evel..isn't as lovely sounding- but, it's not a one way street..good for me.. oh but not for you- 

E asy now, while I'm hopping..my knees are bent- but I'll be hoping.. you'll be hearing me too & 

R emember, don't ya run out in the street...and well

A lign..just happens to come to mind.. cause all my thoughts get crossed-

 

N ow a plumb line's best for tracking, as the wind could blow anywhere 

C ause we..we won't have a foundation..like the board that goes under me & you? 

E asier if it's a two way street..and remember, don't ya take candy from strangers- 

But the fruit of the Spirit is- 
love, 
joy, 
peace, 
patience, 
kindness, 
goodness, 
faithfulness, 
gentleness, 
self-control; against such things there is no law -Ga 5: 22 

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Prompt 63: What's It Like?

First of all, it's Harold Robbins. It's Nancy Friday. It's "My Secret Life" and "Make Me" by Sonja Kindley. It's the "Readers Fantasy Forum" in Playgirl Magazine.

It's wet dreams. Rubbing off. Vibrators, body parts, lost souls, breaking hearts, dildos.

It's The Lover by Marguerite Duras. It's Georges Bataille, Anias Nin, and Anne Rice.

It's Fanny Hill, Fear of Flying, Goblin Market, and Lolita.

It's John Preston, Sera Gamble, Susie Bright, Richard Labonte, and Shanna Germain. 

Imagine running naked through your neighborhood. It’s joy. Rebellion. 
It's a buzz, coming out of the closet, a morning after kind of truth. It's spilling the milk, missing a step. It's not academic. It's cocks and cunts.

It's this age-old argument about art. 
It's deciding whether or not to use a pseudonym. 
It's prejudice. It's telling your son the truth anyway.

It's in the face of paranoia: it's a risk.

Friends say, you leave your car unlocked, your windows open?
Sex is the window to the soul.

Picture this: you're five years old

And trust somebody then he molests you.
Imagine every time you open your mouth your father beats you.
It's the Creation Story. It’s irrational, hopeful, painful. 

Thanks to Alana of After the Pole for this prompt and image.

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Prompt 62: Tactile

This week's prompt is tactile. Here's the definition from the Online Etymology Dictionary: 1615, "perceptible to touch," from Fr. tactile, from L. tactilis "tangible, that may be touched," from tactus, pp. of tangere "to touch" (see tangent). Meaning "of or pertaining to touch" is attested from 1657.

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Prompt 61: Word

Jeeves of Silence is Poetic offers word as this week's prompt. Here are her poem and image. Thank you, Jeeves!


This is how it should be
Relationship at distance
and unsaid words imagined
Like, I sit here and think
The words you say
With your morning yawn
This is how it should be
Intriguing moments, few unsaid words
And many imagined ones

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Prompt 60: One Word

Thanks to Jess of Wayfaring Wanderer, who has provided this week's prompt, one word, along with the following poem and image.

There are countless ways
that a being can express
what they feel inside

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Prompt 59: Live Water

Thanks to Sue of Sunflower Roots for this week's prompt, live water. Thanks to he for supplying this poem and photo, too.

Live Water

the creek flute dances
a natural accompaniment
‘neath work and sleep;
its liquid silver ballet
skips stones, bends grasses,
to wind slender fingers
through my day;
live water
embraces the hours
with subliminal music.

©sgreerpitt
April 6, 2009


In Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Bantam Books 1974), poet Annie Dillard writes “Live water heals memories.” It is from Dillard that I first learned how to view the world through both the eyes of a naturalist and a poet. This book is a treasure to be savored, the perfect accompaniment to a summer’s day, especially one spent near creeks and woods.

Photo is by sgreerpitt April 6, 2009, the creek running near our yard in Letcher County, Kentucky.

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