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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Prompt: the theme is CHANGE

How do you face change? How do you deal with it? It is one certainty in our lives, our world, but we can't, don't or won't always see it coming, or presage the form it will take. Recently the topic of cultural change has come up in Naut's Mumbai posts, and I have focussed on it as a primary point of... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Here is a prompt of a different kind

I wish to prompt you to go take a look, if you haven't before now, at the blogs of RASSE: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/People/Profile.aspx/RASSE She writes from the straightforward perspective of the life she is choosing to lead, shares with us what that life is like, what she cares about and thinks... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 23, 2009

prompt: Last Meal

If I were to be executed on a particular morrow, my last meal would be huge! It would be all the foods I like best, and it would be way, way too much! I would start with really excellent sushi, lots of different kinds... Then, roast lamb... duck... especially the crispy skin! baby back ribs, crab... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Another Middle-earth poem

No sooner do I put together the 'whole' collection, than I go writing another... Maid of Rohan A whisper runs over the tall grass a sigh on the ocean of green that echoes the longing I feel over all of the leagues between your noble heart and my own though your fine grey eyes have not seen. In... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

prompt: Permanence

As a child I expected a certain permanence in certain features of the world. Some part of me still does. I have not divined why I get stuck on this issue--but I can remember being shocked, at age 8 or 9 by such things as the Congo changing its name to Zaire. I thought the names of countries were... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Prompt: In the Time of Plague

In the mid-1300s, over a period of about 5 years, the Great Pestilence, the Black Plague swept across Europe from Asia to Ireland, from the Arctic to North Africa, wiping out two thirds of the population, emptying whole towns and reducing the productive countryside to a world of bleak abandonment. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 9, 2009

reprising some poems

It is my intent to attach these poems to some of my photos, and create my next show of such things. I don't have a shot for this, yet, but am thinking of some archaic architecture that might stand in for Troy. The poem itself was written after seeing the relatively recent movie TROY. ASHES IN THE... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Responding to Wigopa's prompt...

http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/wigopa/ Wings From the solid safety of the wall of stone I cast myself against the sky into obscuring clouds, the dangers that they hold unknown and unforeseen... I test my fragile pinions in the turbulent airs... I dare the distance between the sky and... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

prompts: 'Tis the season...

How is it in your world? Are you ready and content to remain at home for the next couple of days? What will you be doing if the power fails? What do you most look forward to in the holiday season? Who will you be sharing it with? What makes the perfect Christmas? What is your heart's desire in this... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

a prompt of lights!

Lights glimmer and glow among the branches and reflect in every shining glass ball... What does this bright pageant evoke for you? Write a poem or tell a story, or create your own picture and post it in your blog. Then bring a link and post it in 'comments' here-- That's how this game works! Sign in to see full entry.

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