Showing posts with label One Single Impression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label One Single Impression. Show all posts

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Prompt Delivery!

Happy 3rd Day of NaPoWriMo!  Hope everyone is having fun with poetic expression (and license.)  I posted a few poems at Poetic Asides earlier today, but now it's blog-time!

Prompts du jour:  Big Tent Poetry - 'write about making a phone call.'  One Single Impression - 'epidemic.'  

Image courtesy of oldphoneworks.com
Call Box

I put the dime in
and listened to it cascade down
to dime and human purgatory,
because after all,
what could I possibly get for a dime
but a quick local call
so I could say, “Please come pick me up.”
...and hope that someone might answer
on the other end.

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Image courtesy of janetscreativepillows.com

Epidemic

What would happen if
the only epidemic
was the spread of laughs?

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Oh, the uncertainty of it all!

Interesting prompts today.  (I think.)

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
The March Challenge suggested we reflect on uncertainty. (Maybe?)  Sunday Scribblings was all about nearly. (Almost?)  And One Single Impression was kinda sorta hollow.  (Perhaps.) 

As you can see, I'm a bit unsure, but anyway, here are the words...


Hollowed Grounds

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt. ~Bertrand Russell

Hollow confidence
is the realm of the stupid.
At least, I think so.

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(Nearly) Famous

I’m (nearly) famous!
Check me out.
From coast to coast
there is no doubt
I’m quite well-known
(in certain spheres.)
That’s how it goes
with ‘penned’ careers.

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The Uncertainty of a Shooting Star

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ~Vincent Van Gogh

I look to the stars,
too deep perchance to dream…
I dream, anyway.

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