Sunday, October 30, 2011

Prompt 192: Sunset

SUNSET

Your tears are for the
both of us
I know your pain well
it is mine
But it’s okay to break
let it go
My calm will help you
lift your burden
I'll help you in carrying
what you can't
My strength will serve when
yours is gone
I'll always be close by
keeping an eye
And when you're unable to
walk any longer
I'll carry you in my arms
across the sea ...
into the sunset ...

Kremo of The Obtuse Angle

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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Prompt 191: Limber Up

Swapnap of Following a Rainbow has recommended this week's prompt, limber up. Let's all be as flexible as possible this week!
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Prompt 190: Paper

Gautami of Rooted suggested this week's prompt, paper.

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Friday, October 14, 2011

New Prompts for Winter

DATE PROMPT CONTRIBUTOR
October 16 - 22, 2011
Paper
October 23 - 29, 2011
Limber Up
October 30 - November 5, 2011
Sunset
November 6 - 12, 2011
Birdie
November 13 - 19, 2011
Hourglass
November 20 - 26, 2011
Seeking
November 27 - December 3, 2011
A Fool’s Paradise
December 4 - 10, 2011
Sapid*
December 11 - 17, 2011
Knight
December 18 - 24, 2011
Inkpot
December 25 - 31, 2011
Renewal
* From dictionary.com:
sapid \SAP-id\, adjective:
1. Having taste or flavor, especially having a strong pleasant flavor.
2. Agreeable to the mind; to one's liking.
Chemistry can concentrate the sapid and odorous elements of the peach and the bitter almond into a transparent fluid -- David William Cheever, "Tobacco", The Atlantic, August 1860
I've raved about the elegant and earthy lobster-and-truffle sausage, the sapid sea bass with coarse salt poached in lobster oil, and the indescribably complex and delectable ballottine of lamb stuffed with ground veal, sweet-breads and truffles. -- James Villas, "Why Taillevent thrives", Town & Country, March 1, 1998
Sapid comes from Latin sapidus, "savory," from sapere, "to taste."
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Prompt 189: River

This week's prompt, river, comes to us from Ramesh of A Little More Than Ordinary.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Prompt 188: Language

Sandra of La Palabra Diminuta brings us this week's prompt, language, with these awesome poems:

I don´t recall a single word
but your gestures …your glance

no recuerdo palabras
sólo tus gestos...tu mirada
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that word was so soft
it remained undeciphered
thus joining us both


apenas se oyó
quedando indescifrable
nos unió a los dos
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quise buscar las palabras
para contar ese cuento
pero no encontré ninguna
que tradujera el momento
se me deshace el lenguaje
como el agua entre los dedos
y solo queda el silencio
en los sonidos del viento
un enigma en esta hora
una verdad de otro tiempo,
inaudibles se quedaron
sus sonidos tan pequeños
que no sé si nacerán
para algún oído nuevo
que descifrará el mensaje
cuando lo devuelva el viento
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