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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Night
I wrote this ages ago, and completely forgot about it. But is perfectly on-prompt for http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/2010/09/poetry-potluck-bedazzled.html Night Glory night of bright, white light – moon full Noisy night of tempest howling – bucketful Heatwave night of restless tossing – dreamful Fretful … Continue reading
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Insomnia
The prompt for Potluck Poetry is Night. http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/2010/09/poetry-potluck-bedazzled.html Inspiration lacking, I fall back on this inane freewrite. Sunset — Night — Sunrise 31.12.08-01.01.09 photos by No.1 son from our verandah Insomnia Night is such a cliché: Moon and June, dancing, … Continue reading
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DIG FOR VICTORY for Magpie Tales
http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2010/09/mag-32.html Warning, this tale is very dark. The sands have run out for this poor chap. The Scene: Malaya, 1945 Dig for Victory He was handed a shovel and told to dig. He understood the why, but the how was problematic. … Continue reading
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The Fisher-child for Writer’s Island 18.9.10
••> The twenty first prompt for 2010, an idyllic painting by Vane Kosturanov entitled: “FISHERMAN”. (click image to see larger in separate window) Thanks to Mr. Kosturanov for granting us permission to use his art as our prompt for this week. … Continue reading
Posted in life writing, Poems
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my other blog
is for miserable old bats, you’ll find an admonition on the subject of punctuation at: http://vivnada.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/rant-punctuation/
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Candidate for Adoption
http://bigtentpoetry.org/ Come One Come All is where you will see all the wonderful wordles. Big tent Wordle 13.9.10 asks us to use any or all of these words in a poem. Some of the words spoke to me quite strongly … Continue reading
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stained glass
our bathroom window made by husband Quimper Cathedral, Brittany
Posted in quilts and pictures
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Quilting for the Poetry Bus
The prompt was colour, which is a huge part of my life. One of my very first poems (2008) started life as a very long piece, trying to express what colour is and does in my workroom – scene of many … Continue reading
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Loss? for Writers Island
The Last Redwood Prompt for http://writersisland.wordpress.com/ keeps reverberating in my head, hence one more doom-laden poem. Perhaps by writing like this I can hold back the tide. Loss I’ve never seen a redwood and now I never will. Giant reduced to … Continue reading
Posted in nature poems, Poems
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sleeping under the stairs, part 6
Chapter 1, part 6 – mainly clothes The wartime years in retrospect seem very drab and colourless. Isolated sunshiny memories are far outweighed by grey days. People’s clothes were mostly sombre, many wearing black mourning armbands over the sleeves … Continue reading
Posted in life writing
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Diminuendo
This is for: http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/2010/09/poetry-potluck-big-bang.html Diminuendo Clashing chords of breakers on remote rocks welcome ghosts from her past to the island. Among them, a stranger stands by the shore; her crashing glissando of tears declares the despair of a cellist … Continue reading
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October Morning for Carry on Tuesday
Carry on Tuesday’s #70 – http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/ – is to use all 0r part of the first line of the traditional folk song “One misty, moisty morning.” This one was written last autumn, but here we are in September and the morning … Continue reading
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Post No.100: THE TRAVELLER
This picture was embroidered by my husband – the third in a series of three – to ward off the boredom which arrived when he finished building our house, and converting another with a friend. Four years on, there is … Continue reading
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The last…
The last… When I am gone, there will be no more flowers or fruits, no grain nor grape. When I am gone bit by bit all life will end, barren – there can be no escape. Today’s … Continue reading
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cook for lots of laughter
Today’s prompt from http://thelaughtersite.blogspot.com/ is cook Gourmet O do you love every finger- licking mouthful delicious components competently incorporated imperceptibly: unquestionable scrumptiousness The shape is a fibonacci poem: each line has one more letter than the previous one.
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