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B for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:58:00 +0000

birthdays, balloons and pearls

a string of birthdays

one strand of pearls

markers starlight bright

sneaking up to early thrills

milestones by the digits

'til beyond the central high

production backtracks

still pressing forward

she keeps the clasp in sight

Are you still as excited about your 90th birthday as you were about your 9th? :)

Follow the ABC link and play along!

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For Magpie Tales #101

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:12:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid offers the following image for writers' prompt:

contemporary linking

fronts the muslin wrinkling

black and white alone, flesh

out the dulcet tawny tones

of an artful curve of thinking

the give and take of bending

while the sun sets on the west

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A for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000

ABC Wednesday Round 10

An artful artichoke and android

Several years ago, I made 'scratch pads' for special people. The covers carried a sketch or drawing of something particular to the recipient. One daughter was having a love affair with artichokes, so... I laugh when I remember my dear dad saying, "Can you imagine how hungry that person must have been to try artichokes for the first time?" He also said that about crab, lobster and other things which require more than simple fire and knives. :)

Art-ing has been off my radar for a while but has been re-energized with the purchase of a Kindle Fire and a nifty android app which increases my desire to doodle, draw and play with color while wrapped in warm fleece as winter tantrums outside seek entry into my old house. Doodling, Angry Birds and dedicated reading create an awesome world.

Avoiding artichokes. I cannot find the artichoke image. Do you have any idea where it might be? Arg. So, I'll show you part of a borrowed photo of a borrowed kid with his very own shirt.

Do you doodle? Or, have you an idea about where my artichoke drawing might be?

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Magpie Tales #100

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:58:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following image for writer prompt #100!

sculpture: Jason deCaires Taylor

building Atlantis

in our own likeness

2012 dead ahead

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Z for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:27:00 +0000

ABC - Z

z starts the zill: finger cymbals used in belly dancing

My mother and I stepped out of our comfort zone decades ago and took an extra curricular college course to learn belly dancing. I couldn't begin to tell you how much fun we had and how hard we laughed. I must admit, however, that we learned a lot. It looks far simpler than it is and while we took only one semester of belly dancing we ended up with full costumes including zills, pants and music! And, no, I have no idea which carton holds those special touchables.

Have you tried tapping zills?

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Haiku for Magpie Tales #99

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:37:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers this image for writers' prompt!

pigeon haunts

statues or posters

the long fall

image: Lee Friedlander

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Y for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:34:00 +0000

ABC Wednesday

Image courtesy of Amazon

If you live in the land of ice and snow, yaktrax are unbeatable. They slip onto your shoes to keep your shoes from slipping on ice and snow.

There's a little incline at the end of my driveway just before the mailbox and it's kinda like a snow resort's bunny slope. Once I get started, there's just no stopping. These things have saved my story more than once, I'm sure.

How about you? Are you prone to slippage and slidage?

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Haiku for Magpie Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following image for prompt #98.

over and under

unwrinkled and numinous

one hole in the wind

River, Marina Moevs, 2005

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Senryu for Magpie Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:22:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid, of Magpie Tales, offers the following image as writers' prompt:

image: Bert Stern

her cellophane wrap

easy to see, hard to read

a first grade primer

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X for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Xiphias, a swordfish.

According to Wikipedia, the swordfish is named after its bill resembling a sword. This makes it superficially similar to other billfish such as marlin, but upon examination their physiology is quite different and they are members of different families.

original watercolor sketch

After I battled one of these for nearly a day before bringing him close enough to the boat to permit a quick touch before the deckhand returned him to the ocean, I hardly knew whether he was a marlin or a swordfish. But I did notice he was huge and heavy.

Have you challenged an Xiphias?

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W for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:03:00 +0000

Wishing you a cozy warm winter with a wealth of spirit, energy and joy!

Wishing you a wonderful 2012!

original watercolor

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Senryu for Magpie Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:57:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following image as writers' prompt.

image: Lee Friedlander, 1966

folded arms

detached his shadow

saved her heart

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Viatical for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:40:00 +0000

A viatical settlement is the sale of a life insurance policy by the policy owner before the policy matures. More information can be found at Wikipedia.

An early Christmas present (from me to me) of the Kindle Fire means that I'm reading with renewed enthusiasm. Added to this is the ability to digitally download Kindle books from the local library. The most recent series of books on my list comes from author James Grippando, creator of lawyer Jack Swyteck. Reading the second of his series, Beyond Suspicion, brought up viatical and I remembered when that word was prevalent in investing terminology.

And never let it be said that I read more than a couple of chapters before playing a bit of Angry Birds. All this excitement brought housework to a complete stop.

Do you buy gifts for yourself or am I the only one who does?

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Haiku for Magpie Tales #95

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:30:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following image for writer's prompt.

image by Mostafa Habibi

house of sand

an escaping dream

twist of time

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U for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:45:00 +0000

Please follow the link to see others' entries for the letter U.

One of the oldest USPS sites that I'm familiar with. As far as I know, this delightful place didn't have a local post office aid.

The mail is now delivered by boat and distributed by which ever body is on hand to keep the boat near the dock while the pilot passes over the mail and whatever groceries were requested from the store in a small town on the other side of the lake.

Are you familiar with an older version?

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #94

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:19:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following image for prompt.

Lunch, George Tooker, 1964, Columbus Museum of Art

dark of rye

color-free milled wheat

artful knead

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T for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:01:00 +0000

A portable tenderometer from Google search

I don't have a tenderometer (instrument for measuring tenderness of fruits and vegetables) and probably never will but it would have been handy several times during the last month because an Asiatic pear ripens differently than a Bartlett and yesterday I ruined a costly avocado by cutting it too soon.

Maybe it would be a handy item to have but because tenderometers are used for commercial purposes, I'm on my own again.

The anagrammer page touts Scrabble words, anagrams and several varieties of tenderometers.

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Fibonacci for Magpie Tales #93

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:19:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales prompts writers with the following offer:

red

ruby

nostalgia

abandoned by heirs

those golden tales forever curbed

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S for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:29:00 +0000

Sun Salutation is my favorite yoga movement, although this time of year it could be named snow salutation. I'm not so fond of snow and there's surely not much sun to be found.

I prefer the easy yoga. Simple stretches are good and easy to do. That's my key: Simple and slow.

I credit yoga for my recovery from a two-month battle with pneumonia several years ago which left me unable to stand or walk. A couple of physical therapy visits in conjunction with yoga returned me to the walking state. I don't skateboard now but I never did and I'm sure not planning to learn that sport! It just doesn't fit my simple and slow motto.

Do you stretch with yoga or do you skateboard?

Image courtesy of : http://www.livingwordsofwisdom.com

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #92

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:45:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following visual for writers' prompt.

breath of Om

hatha yoga tryst

lotus grants

layers bendable

for flexible M

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R for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:54:00 +0000

Rocking and Rollicking in the Rakings

Gotta envy the energy of the young, but on the other hand, where would this one be without the raker?

A borrowed photo, a child called Sweetcheeks

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Tanka for Magpie Tales

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid, Magpie Tales, offers the following image for writers' prompt #91.

image source: Google images, unknown photographer

Cheshire cat

dissembles in fog

Alice scans

infertile landscape

the music silent

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Q for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:38:00 +0000

Quoz (absurd person or thing) rocks and rules. Stricken by absurdity flu, much of the media misses the news by pandering to the quoz.

I can sense a rant by this quat (insignificant person) coming on, so I'm going to quickly quit this post on quoz.

Downside of the quackers is a watercolor sketch based on a photograph.

Have you seen down from under?

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Two of my novels and several chapbooks of poetry are available in various formats through Lulu Publishing and available as e-books on Nook and iTunes. Thank you.

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #90

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers this image as writers' prompt.

farmer's child

her hands man-like strong

she hid them

wished for model-slim

I saw mother's grace

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Two Nanowrimo novels and several poetry chapbooks are available as e-books or print on Lulu Spotlight as well as Barnes & Noble and iTunes. Thank you.

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P for ABC Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (Tumblewords:) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:12:00 +0000

An example of a paraprosdokian.

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

If you feel the urge to snort, giggle and roar, follow the link where you'll find an assortment of paraprosdokians and suddenly you'll be passionate enough about them to begin writing your own.

Do you know paraprosdokians?

Fractal image.

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