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Friday, April 5, 2013

prompt: Home

What makes a place home, for you? Years ago, for me, it was the long shelf of yellow-spined National Geographics--like the one in my parent's house--that defined it for me. I might get a subscription now, and start a new shelf, as a matter of fact. When I have a shelf. And home, for me, has long... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

my prompt response

Mammoths. The last natural mammoths lived on an island, and had become a dwarf variant because their environment was so limited. They were around four feet tall at the shoulder. Elephants are among the most intelligent of Earth's species, and long-lived, if you don't figure in poachers. Perhaps... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Prompt: Bringing back the departed

It will be possible, if it isn't already, to clone back from extinction any number of creatures who once walked the earth, flew in the skies, or swam the waters. For the purposes of this prompt, I am only speaking of those who shared the world with human beings. Narrowing it down some, let's... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

One of our newest bloggers, Collene, inspired this prompt

Figural poems are shaped by words and line-breaks, to make the shape of the topic. I played with this idea a few years ago, and here were my best results.? oo ah... oooh! mmm --!! * passing around a tray of goodies -- (cookies taking everyones’ drink orders, then and delivering tiny coffees in tiny... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

"Do you know what a rabbit looks like?"

"Yes, of course I do!" "Can you draw?" "Sure, I can draw." "Okay--here is paper and pencil: Draw me a rabbit." "Well... I can't actually draw one." "Then, you know a rabbit when you see one, but you don't actually know what one looks like." Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

What's on your desk?

My stuff is on a long table, and the center of it, I consider my desk. Around my laptop in the center, there are 5 betta tanks with occupants who you've seen before http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/sets/72157622562626138/; camera; bookshelf with my Parabola magazines and a Gnostic Bible, as... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

"Twice in my life I have wished to die.

Now I look back on each time with the certain knowledge of all that I would have missed had I gone over the water at those times." Juilene Osborne-McKnight BRIGHT SWORD OF IRELAND Where do these words take you? As a person who has lived many, many years with crippling depression and a certain... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 31, 2012

dream story continues

A slight change: Seria is the dark, elfy-looking one, Melandre is the rose-and-gold looking one. I started with the reverse, but keep seeing them in my mind this way. So now it's official. ARTOS He was in a mood. That little tyrant had kept him at it all day, it was late afternoon now, and too late... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

I woke up dreaming this morning,

and held it together long enough to anchor the imagery to a page... I wonder where it will go. Some ideas are crystalizing, even now, around these three young characters. No title yet... that will come. The setting is medieval/renaissance, possibly fantasy, though probably not magical. The target... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

What's your after-Christmas like?

Me, I want to nap... nibble this and that of the leftovers and things like candies that are hung in the tree... Nothing creative, beyond maybe coloring some Celtic designs with colored pencils, and doing my best to stay inside the lines. What do you do, or like, or want, in the days after Christmas? Sign in to see full entry.

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