Acrostic: Voices

VOICES

Visiting the bank
Other day's friend
I married her
Counting her money
Every day there
Singing love alimony

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Written for Acrostics Only January, 2010, prompt 6, Acrostic Poem on

Humor: Growing Old (Requirement: 3 words per line)

One Single Impression: Indurated

Indurated
trees hardened as stone
once were supple and green
holding birds in their bows
this rock I now hold
earlier was
one
makes
me wonder
of all the processes it went through


O that
I could stand those pressures
of stresses from everyday living and fires
raising family loving spouse feeding us all
I'd surely falter along life's way
be burned
and
turned
into
stone myself
this all reminds me of Lot's poor wife*

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Find more poems at One Single Impression
"Wings" as prompt was
suggested by Kuyerjudd at My Heart Up Close

* Notes:

1. Lot's wife, looking back on Sodom, was turned into a pillar of salt.(link)

2. Indurated definition Online Dictionary ]
Indurate \In"du*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indurated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Indurating.]
[1913 Webster]

1. To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some
fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
[1913 Webster]

2. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render
obdurate.
[1913 Webster]

Indurated \In"du*ra`ted\, a.

Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart.
--Goldsmith.
[1913 Webster]

indurated - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "indurated":
Philistine, backed, brazen, calcified, callous, calloused,
case-hardened, conscienceless, crusted, crusty, crystallized,
flinty, fossilized, granulated, hard, hardened, hardhearted,
heartless, hornified, impervious, incrusted, indurate, insensitive,
inured, lapidified, lost to shame, obdurate, ossified,
pachydermatous, petrified, proof against, reinforced, rigidified,
sclerotic, seared, set, shameless, solidified, steeled,
steeled against, steely, stiffened, stony, strengthened,
thick-skinned, toughened, unblushing, vitrified

Trembling ~ Haiku Bones

Trembling Quartet
.. three haiku one senryū

facing fox yet still
mother quail covered her chicks
trembling all the while


hungry small kitten
bold hungry begging tourists
trembling all the while


viper coiled to spring
poor small frog very quiet
trembling all the while

girl on a scooter
hoping he will ride with her
trembling all the while

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Copyright © 2010 Jimmiehov
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Thanks to Nancy and Bruce at Haiku Bones
for the prompt word, trembling.