Prompt 218: Elusive

Thanks to Karen of Something Written  for this week's prompt, elusive.

hidden in shadows
elusive truths lie in wait
on the quest for light


on the quest for light
paths to follow may deceive.
wrinkles in the soul


wrinkles in the soul
smoothed by promise of belief
hidden in shadows


Text and photo © by Karen @ Something Written/Pixel Posts

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Prompt 217: Verdant

Today's prompt is verdant. Happy Earth Day!

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Prompt 216: Shells

From April 14, 2012

Shells, this week's prompt comes from Sandy Carlson of Writing in Faith.  

Here is the meaning of the word by way of the Online Etymology Dictionary:

O.E. sciell, scill, Anglian scell "seashell, eggshell," related to O.E. scealu "shell, husk," from P.Gmc. *skaljo "divide, separate" (cf. W.Fris. skyl "peel, rind," M.L.G. schelle "pod, rind, egg shell," Goth. skalja "tile"), with the notion of "covering that splits off," from PIE root *(s)kel- "to cut, cleave" (cf. O.C.S. skolika"shell," Rus. skala "bark").

Sense of "mere exterior" is from 1650s; that of "hollow framework" is from 1791. Meaning "structure for a band or orchestra" is attested from 1938. Militaryuse (1640s) was first of hand grenades, in reference to the metal case in which the gunpowder and shot were mixed; shell shock first recorded 1915. Shell game"a swindle" is from 1890, from a version of three-card monte played with a pea and walnut shells.

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New Prompts

DATE	PROMPT	CONTRIBUTOR
April 15 - 21, 2012	Shells	Sandy Carlson of Writing in Faith
April 22 - 28, 2012	Verdant	Ramesh Sood of A Little More Than Ordinary
April 29 - May 5, 2012	Elusive	Karen of Something Written
May 6 - 12, 2012	Depression	Harshad Mehta of A Space Within
May 13 - 19, 2012	Crimson	Geraldine of My Poetic Path

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Prompt 215: Wassail

Wassail is our prompt, thanks to Gyanban, who shares with us this wonderful poem:

A winged horse stunning white,

Watchful eyes glare under the shadowing hood

The dark feather blends in the night.

Flying hands and braclet wood,

The magic conjured is never unerstood.

And as fortunes are told

Love is not weighed in gold

Hope inside a rock gilded,

Her eyes witness spiraling stories,

Wind carries the nomad memories.

 Moonlit woods and a crimson fire,

Rocking lanterns and a serendiptous lair,

The dancing flames and a mystical glare

Reality suspended and dreams revel

A wasaail candle and the lurking devil.

Gyanban Thoughts -  One of the meanings of Wassail is liquor for drinking and wishing health to others on festive occasions, especially spiced ale,as on Christmas Eve and Twelfth-night.I took this prompt and tried using it in a different mystical setting leaving reality behind.A secret lair lying hidden in some corner and a magical world lives there. There is an element of love and fortune introduced in the second part, this is narrated by the gypsy woman.Finally the poem ends with a surreal devil lurking in a corner, waiting, perhaps attracting the moth to the candle.

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Prompt 214: Inbox

Teri Casper of Painted Daisies brings us this week's prompt, inbox. Enjoy!  Here are her freeform poem and her delightful image.  Thank you, Teri!

I have been waiting so long

For that note of love

To fly into my inbox

Followed by a proposal

and

forever love

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Prompt 213: Transition

Transition is this week's prompt. Enjoy!

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Prompt 212: Miracle

Thanks to Geraldine of Take a Happy Break for this week's prompt, miracle.

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Prompt 211: Confirmation

Tarang's prompt confirmation is up for this week. Thanks for sharing your poems and visiting each other!

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Prompt 210: Underground

This week's prompt is underground. Have fun!

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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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My apologies for being late. I feel awful. I think I was having too much fun at home on Christmas vacation. Love and Happy New Year to all!  Andrée

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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Prompt 205: Wrong

Thanks to Sandra of La Palabra Diminuta for this week's prompt, wrong. Here are her poem and image:

 

God could never be wrong
knowing how randomness goes
self confident He threw the dices
foreseeing the human track
made of volatile star dust,
humans could be wrong or right
clashing angles of deviation
parallel lines straight direction

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Prompt 204: Smile

Thanks to Geraldine of Take a Happy Break for the delightful prompt, smile.

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Prompt 203: Soul

Thanks to Irendi of Recklessly Me for this week's prompt, soul. Here is her poem:

The State of My Soul
 One cannot exist without the other
Eternally bound to one another
They are interwoven seamlessly-
Faith and Soul
Soul and faith.
Never pushing one ahead of the other
One never falls behind.
Working together for a common cause,
They advance.

Neither in heaven or hell,
Rather somewhere in limbo
Resides all that defines my very existence.
Faith and soul run,
Ever steady.
Weaving in and out of
 Potholes,
Obstacles and rest stops,
What was once a barely-there
Trickle,
Now a conscious stream of energy.
A ribbon along the wind,
It drifts on
Sight unseen
Fearlessly.

Soul sustains faith
Or does faith sustain soul?
One a coursing river of cool, the
Other a blazing stream of a flame.
Amazing one never
Overtakes the other.
The other never engulfs one;
A fusion,
 They silently pull
My centered self
Into obedience.

 My wildly beating heart
Knows the path
My faith-soul
Will take.
My brain is the variable-
Wanting logic,
Needing it, really
To plot my course.

The state of my faith-soul
Is in limbo.
Neither here or there, in
Heaven nor hell,
Dealing with the limitations
Of its humanity.

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