Sample

 



 

Sample-a representative part or a single item from a larger whole or group ..

(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)

 

I have a golf ball collection. Most have logos of golf courses, tournaments or colleges and universities. Others, like the sample above, are colorful and/or say something interesting. The balls in my collection are both new and used. It's always fun to find a ball that has an interesting logo.

 

Thanks to Kris Swanguarin for this week's Wordsmith Studio Creative Prompt. Give us a sample of how this prompt inspires you by posting a link in the comments section of the blog post.

 

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erasure

 

For the 6th week of the Our Lost Jungle Poetry Form Challenge, the form is erasure.  The poet takes a previously written text and begins to erase text to create a poem. Color or images may be added for a visual effect.

 

I used a page from the book Kansas City Jazz From Ragtime to Bebop--A History by Frank Diggs and Chuck Haddix. I tried to keep the relationship of the words within each line accurate words in the picture, but the spaces between lines are more representative than exact.

 

I enjoyed this form and playing with some photos to go with the poem.  Here is the text:

 

hooked on the blues

 

pecking out blues on the old

upright piano

practiced on the sly

 

Seeing

great territorial bands

inspired to become a musician

 

straggling home in the early morning light

with pockets full of money

 

Finding work scarce

 

stranded in Tulsa

 

auditioning for the piano spot

"I can play those tunes."

 

"Man, we've got a cat here.

 

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New

 

 

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading,

 or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Confucius

 

 

I bought a new book this weekend! It's It Happens in the Dark by Carol O'Connell, the latest in her Mallory series. It just came out in August so it really is a new book.

 

Do you make time to read?

 

This week's Wordsmith Studio Creative Prompt is New. So, what's new with you? Let us know by leaving a link in the comments on the blog post. Thanks to Kasie Whitener for this prompt.

 

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Ekphrasis

 

 

 

The topic for Week 5 of the Our Lost Jungle Poetry Form Challenge is Ekphrasis. This happens to be one of my favorite types of poetry.

 

Ekphrastic poetry is poetry inspired by visual art. I prefer a broader definition that includes any art form, but the task this week is centered on the visual. Khara House challenged us to look outside the picture in putting together this week's work. I tried to think about what could be there, but isn't, as well as what is.

 

Mist-ifying

 

Liquid curtain
shimmering in
the early light.
What do you hide?
Miles of moors
Howling hounds
Terrifying sounds
Waves of ocean
Foghorns blare
Ships taking care
The waterfall
roaring down.
Noise resounds.
A neighborhood
Residents rise
at dawn’s reprise.

 

 

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Basket

 

 

 

Rocking Horse

 

The rocking horse
moves back and forth
at a steady pace,
staying in one place.

 

The child on its back
travels here or there.
Transported to a
chosen destination
by imagination.

 

Who’s really being
taken for a ride?

 



This week's Wordsmith Studio Creative Prompt is Basket. Write a poem or story, take a photograph or use any other art form to produce a piece inspired by the word Basket. Put a link to it in the comments on the blog post. Thanks to Carol Early Cooney for this week's prompt.

 

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le stein

 

 

 

Challenge No. 4 of the Our Lost Jungle Poetry Challenge is le stein. Khara House challenged us to write a poem in the style of Gertrude Stein.

 

Browse the link above to learn more about Stein's style. Khara gave us four cues from Stein's work to take into consideration:

1. Highly experimental
2. Word associations, while avoiding words with "too much association"
3. Very much in the present (tense and otherwise)
4. Repetition as a form of discovery

[Note: Stein did write some poems involving the moon so I chose one of my more playful moon photographs to use on this post.]

 

This has been my favorite challenge so far because I love word association. Usually, I have to rein myself in on this; but, this week, I could do as much as I wanted. Also, it seems like I am using repetition more frequently. The weakness of my le stein, as far as the challenge goes, is that it is too easy to understand.

 

Pace of Play

 

Waiting, waiting,
hating every second
of the waiting.
Feeling the weight
of staying in
the same place.
The waiting is
so frustrating.
I yearn to
look ahead and
pick my spot.
Setup and take
the next shot.
Feel the freedom
of the swing.
Instead, I am stilted.
Wilted by the
heat of the sun.
Not a shade
of shade in
which to stand
while I am
waiting, waiting
for those up
ahead to
move on.

 

 

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Found

 

 

 

When I went out to water the garden the other night, I noticed a little red behind the leaves on the gerbera. I moved the leaves and found

 

 



 

 

that the gerbera is blooming again! I added this plant to the garden this spring and it was in bloom when I bought it. I thought that would be it for this year so I am really excited about seeing these new flowers (there are two).

 

Thanks to Rebecca Barray for this week's Wordsmith Studio Creative Prompt. What have you found lately? Tell us about it in your favorite form of expression and post a link in the comments section of the prompt post.

 

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