Sunday, February 26, 2012

One Single Impression: Muse

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Muse

As I mused my muse
she done came and went
don't know where she went
I just know she's gone

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Picture: (Wikipedia soure)
"Gustave Moreau,
Hesiod and the Muse (1891)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris"

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More poems using Muse as prompt word can be found at One Single Impression.
Prompt word (Muse) was suggested by Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason.

Note: The Muses are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature, science and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture, that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths. (Wikipedia article, Muse)

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Saturday Centus: The Chair, the Cat, and Xentor

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It was a cold and rainy day. The chair dominated the small room. That chair and the cat in the chair.

Xentor knew only one way to get warm and have any rest. Make friends with the cat and share the place to sit. A saucer of milk would do the trick for now.

The cat drank slowly if at all. All the while making a small crying sound.

Xentor pried it's mouth open and found a fish hook stuck in the roof. Carefully he removed the hook like he did on fishing trips.

The cat said, "Meow, meow."

Xentor had made a friend for life.

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© 2012 Jimmiehov
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It is Saturday Centus day. Jenny in her blog,
...off my tangent..., has challenged us with writing a 106 word story using these six words, in order, "the chair dominated the small room".
That is 100 of our words plus the six she has required. She did allow less, but I made it to an even 106.

Jenny also had a picture of a single dentist chair in a small room that we could use or we were allowed to use our own. I opted to use this one of Fluffy and his dining table chair. Fluffy belongs to my BIL, Danny.
You can find more writers signed up at Jenny's blog, ...off my tangent.... You can also go there to find instructions for writing your own post.

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

One Single Impression: Elemental

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Elemental

Come August thirteenth
Perseids meteor shower
peaks before morning
ordinary chondrites fall
elemental iron burns

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The prompt word "Vital" was suggested by Pam of Amputated Moon
For more poems using this prompt word please go to One Single Impression


Some meteorite links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chondrite
http://www.ehow.com/list_7531485_elements-found-meteorites-meteors.html
http://earthsky.org/space/at-what-altitude-do-meteors-become-incandescent
http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/all-about-the-2011-perseids.html

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Haiku - FLY

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F L Y
Feeling bit lowly
Life has gone south and sour
You bit me, now fly


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Acrostics Only: Prompt B: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - FLY
(A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 un-rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)
(Similarly constructed poems involving human nature, are generally excluded from haiku, and reserved specifically for Senryū.)
Note: Grasshoppers never eat other insects. They are called herbivores because they eat only plants (link). But a hungry fly will take a bite of most anything living or having once lived. I.e. now dead or alive. For more about grasshoppers read here.

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

One Single Impression: Vital





Vital; a review

His vital signs were slowing
he kept drifting off to sleep
Old Father Time's a going
keeps bringing up from the deep

Time long ago a young lad
playing outside with his toys
never thought of being bad
though soon he'd meet bigger boys

Indelible were the teens
memories weren't far away
his treasure was lost between
her mother's sheets in their play

Learning to drive dodged a cat
he took his mum for a ride
told her proudly hold your hat
"too old to spank" hurt his pride

Came along his love for life
courting her was fun and joy
then wedding bells and a fife
nine months later it's a boy

Happily ever after
they all lived until that day
tears prevail swallowed laughter
loved till death he went away
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Prompt word "Vital" was suggested by Harshad Mehta of The Space Within
For more poems using this prompt word please go to One Single Impression

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Sunday, February 05, 2012

One Single Impression: Sour Grapes

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Sour Grapes

Country Western* for the mass's mainstay
from soup to nuts no way to skin a cat
O name a song with nary one cliche
but don't you dare compose a poem like that



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© 2012 and 2008 Jimmiehov
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The word pair, Sour grapes, is prompted at One Single Impression
The prompt word was suggested by Leo of I Rhyme Without Reason
*Note: Country Western in the U.S. is like cowboy type music. Country. It is very popular even with city folks.

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