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lunar effects
Romantic Couple in Paradise Landscape
lunar effects
lunar luminescence wraps
surrounding
such a thing unnoticed
such a thing untouched
lunar drama draws
shaking
kiss soft as wind
kiss flimsy as fragrance
lunar tide pulls
dizzying
part of any season
part of a motif
lunar mask hides
laughing
feasible rejection
feasible betrayal
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Written for:
Short Story Slam Week 21 (March 14-25)
The challenge was to write a short story or a poem in exactly 55 words.
Image Credit: google.com
Last View of the Towers
A view from Jersey City, N.J., of the Manhattan skyline with the twin towers in March 2000.
Last View of the Towers
On Dec 24, 1999 I was at the easternmost edge of Jersey City. Stars shined over Manhattan and I realized that in all my years, there was never a clearer New York City sky. Crisp, cold and magical, how was I to know it would be the last time I’d see the World Trade Center?
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Written for:
Short Story Slam Week 20: Love In Creativity Project, All Is Welcome!
The challenge was to write a short story or a poem in exactly 55 words.
Image Credit to Boston Globe
Pigeon – Stay in the Tree
A Christmas Story for Rezzan
Pigeon – Stay in the Tree
Why be delightful
When you can annoy a crow?
Why live in the moment
When times seem slow?
Gurgle, chirp
Why sit on a shoulder
Instead of a golden bough?
Why puff up your feather
When it’s cold here and now?
Gurgle, chirp
Sit on a stoop.
Live in the trees.
Dive for a meal.
Fly in the breeze.
Let out a silent squeal.
Gurgle, chirp
Stay in the trees
or you’ll get in trouble.
Without a branch,
you live in dirt and rubble.
Gurgle, chirp
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Written for:
Short Story Slam Week 19
Image Credit to Whitebook @ DeviantArt, titled A Christmas Story for Rezzan
congregating tribes
Brides and grooms arrive at a mass marriage ceremony at Bahirkhand village, north of Kolkata Feb 6, 2011.
congregating tribes
the tribes had met
they congregated every spring
the tribes had met
they ventured there despite the threat
to trade and barter everything
to marry off and seal with ring
the tribes had met
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This Rondelet was written for:
The assignment was write a poem about congregate.
Also written for:
Prompt: Tribe
Also posted on:
Gooseberry Garden
Poetry Picnic Week 22: Spring, Colors, Trees, and New Lives
The Rondelet form is:
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– – – A
– – – – – – – a
– – – – – – – b
– – – – – – – b
– – – A
why celebrate the holidays
Cinderella Break
why celebrate the holidays
why celebrate the holidays
in a tree
when you can ride a pumpkin
and scuff its pungent crust
why celebrate the holiday
with family
when you can sip ginger tea
while burning a cinnamon candle
why celebrate the holiday
and succumb to gravity
when you can pirouette on point
with the rat king
why celebrate the holiday
traveling by sea
when warm colored leaves
gamble their lives in the wind
why celebrate the holiday
in thoughtful study
when you can play with words
in creative fulfillment
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Written for:
Short Story Slam Week 17
Also Written for:
Open Link Monday – December 19, 2011
Also posted on:
W is for…
Image Credit: Chance of Sunshine: Cinderella On Her Tea Break
Son
Father's Love
Son
Reminiscing
His blond hair waving in the wind,
Or his blue eyes charting the stars.
He’s grown now,
He no longer needs me
Runs to his shelter
Sits in my lap for sweet caresses.
Come back my little boy.
Drink my milk
Let me raise you once more –
high in the sky.
Then let your feet touch the ground.
But then he’ll be old again
(So will I).
And once more I’ll miss his smiles,
His skinned knees,
And that muddy appearance
When he returns from a hard day of play
So then once more I’ll be
Reminiscing.
He dove into the pile
The hues of yellow and brown
Clashed with the red white and blue suit
As he buried himself in the pile.
Suddenly, Silence
Only the wind could be heard
Nothing moved
But a leaf emancipating itself from the pile.
Then the blond head,
A little nose, a smile
And finally the entire jolly body
Appeared.
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This was written in 1993 and posted for Blue Bell Books Short Story Slam Week 12:
Image Credit: Sweetestsin2862
Memory Stick
Memory Stick
flash drive doesn’t drive
it just likes the same commands
as DVD and CD drives
that everyone demands
flash drive doesn’t flash
it just stores all your data
when you’re tryin’ to run programs
versions alpha and/or beta
flash drive doesn’t move
in fact it’s rather dull
but memories stick to it
better than to your skull
flash drive doesn’t break
if you drop it on the floor
i hear it’s rather robust
it might last a nuclear war
flash drives just interface
with your CPU and apps
you’ll never need a wire
or expensive safety straps
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I wrote this for Theme Thursday
since it has so much repetition, I posted it on
dverse, Poetic Say It Again Sam
Hedgewitch (Joy Ann Jones) was hosting.
Departure
- Departure
Departure
he leaves because he must
this, he recounts each time
he has no need or care for feet
to touch the solid ground.
on to a dumpy dock town,
he sails away once more
in my possession, his treasure,
digging into my diaphragm.
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This is being posted on http://bluebellbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/short-story-slam-week-9.html
Image Credit: Art at google.com
only in isolation
UncertainMe and all her AmbiguousValues
only in isolation
adjacently, it’s rough, in a jagged way,
as it tickles a bare shoulder;
it was just a breeze.
conceptually devoid when
listening retrospectively
an invention that both teaches
and transforms, maybe in a book.
at her next gathering, so complex
she validates the ultimate algorithm
housing in the rurals.
will she build using inherited space?
only in isolation:
environment
landscape
twisted air.
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This is being posted http://bluebellbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/short-story-slam-week-8.html
Photo Credit:
http://untitledmoments.com/2011/08/12/for-uncertinme-and-all-her-ambiguousvalues/
Teach Kids To Think About Giving In Every Aspect of their Lives
Jungle Party Theme Cake
Children’s Jungle Party
(a short play or podcast)
Julie: I’m looking for a way to teach my kids to think about giving in every aspect of their lives.
Nichole: Weren’t you planning a birthday party for your son Howie?
Julie: Yes…
Nichole: You should add a charitable element to your celebration.
Julie: Intriguing, how do I do that?
Nichole: I’ve heard that some people, rather than accept more junky toys to clutter their houses, are asking friends and family to adopt an endangered animal in honor or the birthday boy or girl.
Julie: Wow! That’s a good idea.
Nichole: Of course. It’s a brilliant idea, if I may say so myself.
Nichole and Julie giggle
Nichole: And you know most of these charities give adoption gifts, like stuffed snow leopards and baby gorillas. Have the kids bring the adoption gifts and then use them as party decor. Then, donate the stuffed animals to the children’s hospital.
Julie: I like that. So. Hmmm…it would mean, a jungle theme for decor too. That would be easy…a few coconuts, a bunch or two of bananas, plastic safari hats, and colorful plastic monkeys for the centerpiece.
Nichole: Yeah, now you’ve got your creative jungle juices flowing.
Julie: For more color, we can throw around safari balloons.
Nichole: That’s it. Keep it simple.
Julie: What do I do if the kids get hyper?
Nichole: If you bring hula hoops and beach balls you can keep the kids moving. Have them dance to music from movies like Jungle Book and Lion King.
Julie: I can also bring in musical instruments and have them make their own jungle music.
Nichole: Or have them bring their own instruments.
Julie: You’re right, some take lessons and have their own. I’ll bring extra…
Nichole:…like percussion?
Julie: Yeah…for the ones who don’t have any. You know, I saw a recipe for making a jungle themed cake on a cooking show.
Nichole: Cool. And for after the cake, if you bring old national geographic magazines and butcher block paper along with paper crayons, washable markers, and glue stick “creative kit bags,” they can walk away with their own creative designs and with the kits.
Julie: This is all such a great idea. Just one thing I don’t know if I can get ready.
Nichole: What’s that?
Julie: Get Howie ready for a party with no presents…
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This was posted for http://bluebellbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/thursday-short-story-slam-week-7.html for:
Thursday Short Story Slam Week 7
You were supposed to write a story or poem based on the picture above. So I wrote a little play. Hope they don’t mind.
Since the Animal Rights community liked my previous poem, I wrote this with an AR theme.
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