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    5.29.2008

    Friday 5

    Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.

    Friday 5

    crash
    yogurt
    straw
    gravel
    ochre

    5.25.2008

    Monday Mural

    by Wongster 121
    artwork Chrome Dominoes
    from Photobucket
    originally uploaded here

    Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.

    Chrome Dominoes was originally uploaded to Photobucket by Wongster 121.

    5.22.2008

    Friday 5

    Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.

    Friday 5

    shell
    comic book
    discarded soapbox
    rubber soles
    postcard

    Check out more prompts at Creative Writing Prompts website.

    5.21.2008

    You Belong To Me

    movie You Belong To Me
    date 2008
    poems A Man's Requirements
    Sonnets From the Portuguese #43
    Life In Love
    authors Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Robert Browning

    A Man's Requirements and Sonnets From the Portuguese #43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Life In Love by Robert Browning can be found in its entirety below. Lines used in the movie are in bold. Please leave comments below.

    A Man's Requirements

    I
    Love me Sweet, with all thou art,
    Feeling, thinking, seeing;
    Love me in the lightest part,
    Love me in full being.

    II
    Love me with thine open youth
    In its frank surrender;
    With the vowing of thy mouth,
    With its silence tender.

    III
    Love me with thine azure eyes,
    Made for earnest granting;
    Taking colour from the skies,
    Can Heaven’s truth be wanting?

    IV
    Love me with their lids, that fall
    Snow-like at first meeting;
    Love me with thine heart, that all
    Neighbours then see beating.

    V
    Love me with thine hand stretched out
    Freely—open-minded:
    Love me with thy loitering foot,—
    Hearing one behind it.

    VI
    Love me with thy voice, that turns
    Sudden faint above me;
    Love me with thy blush that burns
    When I murmur Love me!

    VII
    Love me with thy thinking soul,
    Break it to love-sighing;
    Love me with thy thoughts roll
    On through living—dying.

    VIII
    Love me when in thy gorgeous airs,
    When the world has crowned thee;
    Love me, kneeling at thy prayers,
    With the angels round thee.

    IX
    Love me pure, as musers do,
    Up the woodlands shady:
    Love me gaily, fast and true
    As a winsome lady.

    X
    Through all hopes that keep us brave,
    Farther off or nigher,
    Love me for the house and grave,
    And for something higher.

    XI
    Thus, if thou wilt prove me, Dear,
    Woman’s love no fable.
    I will love thee—half a year—
    As a man is able.

    Sonnets From the Portuguese #43
    How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
    I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
    My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
    For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
    I love thee to the level of everyday's
    Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
    I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
    I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
    I love thee with the passion put to use
    In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
    I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
    With my lost saints!---I love thee with the breath,
    Smiles, tears, of all my life!---and, if God choose,
    I shall but love thee better after death.

    Life In Love
    Robert Browning

    Escape me?
    Never---
    Beloved!
    While I am I, and you are you,
    So long as the world contains us both,
    Me the loving and you the loth
    While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
    My life is a fault at last, I fear:
    It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
    Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
    But what if I fail of my purpose here?
    It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
    To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
    And, baffled, get up and begin again,---
    So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
    While, look but once from your farthest bound
    At me so deep in the dust and dark,
    No sooner the old hope goes to ground
    Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
    I shape me---
    Ever
    Removed!

    5.18.2008

    Monday Mural

    by Haironie_91
    artwork Abstract
    from Photobucket
    originally uploaded here

    Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.

    Abstract was originally uploaded to Photobucket by Haironie_91.

    5.15.2008

    Criminal Minds

    show Criminal Minds
    episode Tabula Rasa
    date 2008
    poem Ode On Intimations of Immortality
    from Recollections of Early Childhood
    author William Wordsworth

    You can read Ode On Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth below. I have put in bold the part used in the episode.

    There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,

    The earth, and every common sight

    To me did seem

    Apparelled in celestial light,

    The glory and the freshness of a dream.

    It is not now as it hath been of yore;--

    Turn wheresoe'er I may,

    By night or day,

    The things which I have seen I now can see no more.



    The rainbow comes and goes,

    And lovely is the rose;

    The moon doth with delight

    Look round her when the heavens are bare;

    Waters on a starry night

    Are beautiful and fair;

    The sunshine is a glorious birth;

    But yet I know, where'er I go,

    That there hath past away a glory from the earth.



    Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song,

    And while the young lambs bound

    As to the tabor's sound,

    To me alone there came a thought of grief:

    A timely utterance gave that thought relief,

    And I again am strong.

    The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep,--

    No more shall grief of mine the season wrong:

    I hear the echoes through the mountains throng.

    The winds come to me from the fields of sleep,

    And all the earth is gay;

    Land and sea

    Give themselves up to jollity,

    And with the heart of May

    Doth every beast keep holiday;--

    Thou child of joy,

    Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy

    Shepherd-boy!



    Ye blesséd Creatures, I have heard the call

    Ye to each other make; I see

    The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;

    My heart is at your festival,

    My head hath its coronal,

    The fulness of your bliss, I feel--I feel it all.

    O evil day! if I were sullen

    While Earth herself is adorning

    This sweet May-morning;

    And the children are culling

    On every side

    In a thousand valleys far and wide

    Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm,

    And the babe leaps up on his mother's arm:--

    I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!

    --But there's a tree, of many, one,

    A single field which I have look'd upon,

    Both of them speak of something that is gone:

    The pansy at my feet

    Doth the same tale repeat:

    Whither is fled the visionary gleam?

    Where is it now, the glory and the dream?



    Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;

    The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

    Hath had elsewhere its setting

    And cometh from afar;

    Not in entire forgetfulness,

    And not in utter nakedness,

    But trailing clouds of glory do we come

    From God, who is our home:

    Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

    Shades of the prison-house begin to close

    Upon the growing Boy,

    But he beholds the light, and whence it flows,

    He sees it in his joy;

    The Youth, who daily farther from the east

    Must travel, still is Nature's priest,

    And by the vision splendid

    Is on his way attended;

    At length the Man perceives it die away,

    And fade into the light of common day.



    Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;

    Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,

    And, even with something of a mother's mind,

    And no unworthy aim,

    The homely nurse doth all she can

    To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man,

    Forget the glories he hath known,

    And that imperial palace whence he came.



    Behold the Child among his new-born blisses,

    A six years' darling of a pigmy size!

    See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies,

    Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses,

    With light upon him from his father's eyes!

    See, at his feet, some little plan or chart,

    Some fragment from his dream of human life,

    Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;

    A wedding or a festival,

    A mourning or a funeral;

    And this hath now his heart,

    And unto this he frames his song:

    Then will he fit his tongue

    To dialogues of business, love, or strife;

    But it will not be long

    Ere this be thrown aside,

    And with new joy and pride

    The little actor cons another part;

    Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage'

    With all the Persons, down to palsied Age,

    That life brings with her in her equipage;

    As if his whole vocation

    Were endless imitation.



    Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie

    Thy soul's immensity;

    Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep

    Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind,

    That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,

    Haunted for ever by the eternal Mind,--

    Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!

    On whom those truths rest

    Which we are toiling all our lives to find,

    In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;

    Thou, over whom thy Immortality

    Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave,

    A Presence which is not to be put by;

    To whom the grave

    Is but a lonely bed, without the sense of sight

    Of day or the warm light,

    A place of thoughts where we in waiting lie;

    Thou little child, yet glorious in the might

    Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,

    Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke

    The years to bring the inevitable yoke,

    Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?

    Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,

    And custom lie upon thee with a weight

    Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!

    0 joy! that in our embers

    Is something that doth live,

    That Nature yet remembers

    What was so fugitive!

    The thought of our past years in me doth breed

    Perpetual benediction: not indeed

    For that which is most worthy to be blest,

    Delight and liberty, the simple creed

    Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest,

    With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:--

    --Not for these I raise

    The song of thanks and praise;

    But for those obstinate questionings

    Of sense and outward things,

    Fallings from us, vanishings,

    Blank misgivings of a creature

    Moving about in worlds not realized,

    High instincts, before which our mortal nature

    Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:

    But for those first affections,

    Those shadowy recollections,

    Which, be they what they may,

    Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,

    Are yet a master-light of all our seeing;

    Uphold us--cherish--and have power to make

    Our noisy years seem moments in the being

    Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake,

    To perish never;

    Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,

    Nor man nor boy,

    Nor all that is at enmity with joy,

    Can utterly abolish or destroy!

    Hence, in a season of calm weather

    Though inland far we be,

    Our souls have sight of that immortal sea

    Which brought us hither;

    Can in a moment travel thither--

    And see the children sport upon the shore,

    And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.



    Then, sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song!

    And let the young lambs bound

    As to the tabor's sound!

    We, in thought, will join your throng,

    Ye that pipe and ye that play,

    Ye that through your hearts to-day

    Feel the gladness of the May!

    What though the radiance which was once so bright

    Be now for ever taken from my sight,

    Though nothing can bring back the hour

    Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;

    We will grieve not, rather find

    Strength in what remains behind;

    In the primal sympathy

    Which having been must ever be;

    In the soothing thoughts that spring

    Out of human suffering;

    In the faith that looks through death,

    In years that bring the philosophic mind.



    And 0, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves,

    Forebode not any severing of our loves!

    Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;

    I only have relinquish'd one delight

    To live beneath your more habitual sway;

    I love the brooks which down their channels fret

    Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they;

    The innocent brightness of a new-born day

    Is lovely yet;

    The clouds that gather round the setting sun

    Do take a sober colouring from an eye

    That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;

    Another race hath been, and other palms are won.

    Thanks to the human heart by which we live,

    Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,

    To me the meanest flower that blows can give

    Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

    Friday 5

    Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.

    Friday 5

    mechanic
    spaghetti
    bathtub
    stool
    chalk

    Four of the five words came from Creative Writing Prompts website.

    5.11.2008

    Abandoned House

    Spring winds scud across our faces where earth's lilt language serves as a backdrop to our walk along Olivet Church road and 1247. If we listen hard enough we can hear purple flowers growing despite our moving feet.

    We approach an abandoned house from the east side. Running across expanding green features we fall to our hands and knees in search of a small treasure. Digging underneath the house's west corner we excavate a white marble with yellow swirls. I imagine it belongs to the previous owner's son.

    After dinner, we drove our walking route to see how far we had walked.

    Slowing in front of the abandoned house we explain to my husband where the marble was previously found. There upon the hillside we saw a red fox. She was the color of fire. Rays of sunlight fallen and compressed to her skin. She was beautiful. Then in the murmur of our voices she disappeared.

    Before we drove off we saw four baby foxes scurrying from the same west corner as where the marble was found. Imagine our excitement at seeing a red, mother fox and her babies. Below you can find a picture (click to enlarge) and video of the four baby foxes.



    video

    Monday Mural

    by Andrew Mrt1976
    artwork Fingerprint
    from flickr
    originally uploaded here

    Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.

    Fingerprint was originally uploaded to Flickr by Andrew Mrt1976. Beneath the photo he states that the fingerprint is the logo of Te Papa Museum.

    5.08.2008

    Friday 5

    Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.

    Friday 5

    plastic bottle
    hockey puck
    dirty handkerchief
    crumpled note
    unhinged door

    Today's Friday 5 is from the creative writing prompts website.

    5.04.2008

    Monday Mural

    by Brian Harnett
    artwork Doodling
    from Photobucket
    originally uploaded here

    Monday Mural will feature a picture/ artwork for you to lend your words (poem or story) each Monday. I want you to ask yourself what images are provoked here? What words would you use to define this picture? If you choose to write for Monday Mural please leave your comments below. Hope to see you around.

    Doodling was originally uploaded to Photobucket by Brian Harnett. I think these three characters look like nuts. And, after writing everyday for 30 days I thought this would be an appropriate Monday Mural. Happy Writing~

    5.01.2008

    Friday 5

    Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week (middle column) on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. I hope everyone can find the same inspiration with Friday 5 as they do with 3WW. Hope to see you around and don't forget to post your comments below. Have a nice day.

    Friday 5

    a pigeon
    two rabbits
    an abacus
    tovarich
    gravelines

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