Prompt 175: Crater

Crater         I've dug myself a big hole, woe is me         I've squandered all my money on the horse         Hole not for swimming rather to bury         Loser I picked is winning not. My curse         Don't wait, that crater will be filled today         I've made my peace with the Lord, He'll forgive         Death by the shovel that dug is my way         Tomorrow you'll find me not though I live         Horse has nagged once too often for my ears         I'm killing my wife of too many years Jim of Jim’s Little Photo and Poem Place

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Happy Tau Day! Poetry Contest Begins Today!

 
En Syu Ritsu (The Circle Ratio)

The First Annual Tau-Ku Challenge

Today, June 28, is Tau Day. What’s a tau? Read here or click the caption to the image above to learn more. The value of tau is twice the value of pi, or 6.28. The significance of this for One Single Impression is a poetry contest! Because my life is out of control with a new kitten (don’t get one unless you can supervise it every moment of the day and night), this will not be a one day contest. It will run until Saturday at midnight. I will announce the randomly drawn winner on Tuesday, July 5. I can’t announce it earlier because of the Fourth of July holiday that I need to photograph.

So anyhow, here are the rules of the contest:

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Prompt 174: Seven Sins

Thanks to Fiducia of Rivera's Flame and Ice for this week's prompt, seven sins.  Here is her poem:

Singing praises, Sins as deadly as is!

Blinded by curses that's forbidden,
Embraced in clutches of evil,
Whispers stalk church to chapels,
Thee all, bears a child of devil,
Speak we, do the good in need,
Dormant, it sleeps deep within,
Minds so silent, in conscience,
Damn, awakes an everlasting terror...

Crushing, destroys grace of life,
Absorbed in vain, while confession,
Six things the Lord hateth, in tears,
Seventh, His soul loathes, thy creation,
Good virtues battle the evil vices,
Temptations live to sing the tale,
Good is cornered by evil, all ends,
Savior, to wipe all wrath, there's none...

Belief in abilities, as vanity rises,
Bearer of the deadliest, as christened,
Donning a disguise, in truth, in lies,
Fatal it seems, in progress, its 'pride'...

Desire for the rest, in joy, in distress,
Content, one is not with that bestowed,
Yearns for best, urges minds to plea,
Swallows generosity, for 'envy' to be...

Limit not known, in senses deprived,
To consume more, than what one could try,
Inordinate as all sees it, so loony,
Even money seems small, in front of 'gluttony'..

Pleasures and passion, in color that bleed,
Dreadful desires, taking to a high, in spirits
Rendered to a feeling, unknown in time..
Deformed by love, 'lust' indulges minds in crime..

Manifests fury, swaying decisions, so grim,
Hate overcomes shadow of peace and pun,
Second name to wrath, linked to danger,
Once near, none can save thee, not even 'anger'...

As realms of spirituality, turns its back on life,
Hearts long for gains, worth of debris, so old,
Life gets what it wants, cribs for what it needs..
Cycle of nature wheeling on, never ends one's greed...

Avoidance of effort, laying back in comfort,
Physical actions thrown away for the strong,
When you realize, you have been good for none..
Say cool! coz' you are a recipient of 'sloth'....

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Prompt 173: Wind

Dani suggested this week’s prompt: Wind

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Prompt 172: Miss (Long for)

Surrendering A dog in street, my pet, playful, Loving.   Returning after a few days from tour, I see him in a corner, Low & depressed. He runs towards me, His joy displayed,   Making me feel wanted. Just loving and wanted to be loved. He does it by waggling his tail. I too like him Missed my loved ones & their love, Feeling low & depressed.   But I couldn’t waggle my tail. Suffering silently….   What stopped me?       * But no more. I now know, To waggle tail is to surrender to HIM. — Written for OSI Prompt : Miss (long for) Harshad 10.6.11

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New Prompts for Summer

DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
June 12 - 18, 2011	Miss (Long for)	Harshad Meta
June 19 - 25, 2011	Wind	Dani
June 26 - July 2, 2011	Seven Sins	Fiducia
July 3 - 9, 2011	Crater	Jim
July 10 - 16, 2011	Respect	Sandra
July 17 - 23, 2011	Phantom	Felicity
July 24 - 30, 2011	Need	Preml
July 31 - August 6, 2011	Uncomfortable	Deborah
August 7 - 13, 2011	Dreams	Isabel
August 14 - 20, 2011	Silence	Shail
August 21 - 27, 2011	Obsession	Amity
August 28 - September 3, 2011	Wheat	Niebla
September 4 - 10, 2011	Weed	Gabrielle
September 11 - 17, 2011	Notebook	Gautami Tripathy
September 18 - 24, 2011	Betrayal	Leo
September 25 - October 1, 2011	Amuse	Madeline
October 2 - 8, 2011	Language	Sandra
October 9 - 15, 2011	River	Ramesh

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Prompt 171: Endure

Thanks to Teri for the prompt endure. Here are her tanka and image!

The daisies endure

Their beauty goes on and on

For our enjoyment

They live the world over

In colors of the rainbow

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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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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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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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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 —

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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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