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Tag Archives: November PAD Challenge
Carved In Stone
For November PAD Challenge: Image #20 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Some words, tapped lightly on keyboard, seem to dance into permanent place on monitor screen. Yet, can be deleted with a click, just a flick of one finger. Others might be penned on … Continue reading
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Tagged carved in stone, November PAD Challenge, permanent, poem a day, visual prompts, words
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Somewhere
For November PAD Challenge: Image #19 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Somewhere there is blue deeper than any blue, cooling and soothing to fevered mind and laboring heart. Somewhere… Elizabeth Crawford 11/19/12
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Tagged blue, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, somewhere, visual prompts
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Burnt Sacrifice
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #83 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ And for November PAD Challenge: Image #18 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Burnt Sacrifice Unless mistaken, found peculiar beauty in silence we offered for words gone wrong that never belonged on paper. Five faces distorted, softened in … Continue reading
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Tagged burnt offerings, fire, November PAD Challenge, photograph, sacrifice, Sunday Whirl, visual prompts, wordle
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Nestled
For November PAD Challenge: Image #17 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Like stones and small pebbles dropped in wooden box, people form groups, each finding a place, own space to nestle into, creating unique pattern, some are never able to leave. Elizabeth Crawford 11/17/12
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Tagged nestled, November PAD Challenge, pattern, pen and ink, poem a day, visual prompts
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Color Purple
For November PAD Challenge: Image #16 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Color Purple Color of personal power, once sole domain of aristocracy and royalty, yet small common blossoms have always worn it with freedom, pride, and impunity. Elizabeth Crawford 11/16/12 Notes: Because it was a difficult … Continue reading
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Tagged color purple, impunity, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, visual prompts
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Butterfly Dream
For November PAD Challenge: Image #15 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Butterfly Dream Reach for it they told me, that dream you dream. So, I did and found something worth keeping. Now, they say I must let go, release it. But, I find that dream won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly illusion, double tetractys, dream, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, visual prompt
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Swept Away
For We Write Poems Prompt #131: Unexpectedly Love http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ And for November PAD Challenge: Image #14 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ “Well, sometimes,” she said, with a faraway look, “it’s a bit like certain words, you know? You use a word easily, know its … Continue reading
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Tagged November PAD Challenge, poem a day, swept away, unexpectedly love, visual prompts, We Write Poems
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Etchings
For November PAD Challenge: Image #13 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Etchings in smokey glass had always fascinated her: hummingbird, wings vibrating as beak dipped to sip nectar’s sweetness; great blue heron, stiff-legged stalking in shallow current; or intricate abstract patterns. Occasionally gave them … Continue reading
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Tagged etchings, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, shatter, smokey glass, visual prompts
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Hidden Promises
For November PAD Challenge: Image #12 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Hidden Promises Scent of lavender wafting up from warm bubble bath, encourages images in her head: a secret garden, tiny violet fairy rings beneath drooping branches of tall old oaks. Hidden, possibly forbidden … Continue reading
Staring Into The Future
For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #82 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ and for November PAD Challenge: Image #11 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ Staring Into The Future Although there were days when the girl seemingly leapt awake, feeling new, able to hear birds singing in wood near brook … Continue reading
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Tagged future, November PAD Challenge, poem a day, poetry prompts, staring, Sunday Whirl, visual prompts, wordle
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