Tag: whimsy
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December 05, 2007 04:49 PM EST --
As I sit contemplating my life,
I think I have neglected an integral part of me.
I love to hop and jump.
My favorite color is green . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:54 PM EDT --
I have a friend who collects snowglobes. They come in all shapes and sizes and themes. They line her glass cabinet, little worlds frozen in time, ready to come to life with the shake of a wrist. . . .
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February 18, 2007 12:53 AM EST --
I’d give my right arm
To be ambidextrous
I’d give lungs or gills
To be amphibious
I’d give all my mobility
To be ambulatory
I’d give and take
To avoid ambiguity
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March 21, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
To want is not to need
To knead hones my claws
That tear my paper cage asunder
A flimsy prison of patience
That shackled a whimsical beast
Fortitude’s fortune denied
Flight . . .
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December 08, 2006 11:34 AM EST --
Oh my gosh!!! Lock up your wives, sisters and daughters, bury all your goods in a safe place, close down your computers, and go to bed and cover up your head! Forget global warming, the war in Iraq, the . . .
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August 19, 2006 05:27 PM EDT --
Midsummer's Eve
Let's paint our faces
and dance in the moonlight
to the song of cicadas and frogs
Hold me close, twirl me out
Let the breeze catch my hair
As one last reckless . . .
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March 03, 2007 10:02 PM EST --
Tanka attempt botched
Syllable counts went awry
Sloppy writing flops
Like the frog's tongue missing flies
Leaves the croaking poet starved
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November 20, 2007 03:22 AM EST --
It's one forty one in the morning,
I don't sleep well anymore,
And brother, when I say that,
There's a story, so much more.
I've lived on less, to get me by,
Than most could . . .
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December 06, 2007 10:31 PM EST --
thinking quizzes
Big Thought Quiz iii
What is your name: ___________________
If you are 12 in New York, how old are you in Vermont?
____________________________________ . . .
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July 31, 2006 12:53 PM EDT --
Once upon a time in a land far, far away in a sturdy brick castle on a high hill lived a king named Tosus Leer. King Leer's subjects considered him a fair and competent ruler, which was . . .
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March 04, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
When I asked for a hint on 14 across
You said, “Read me the clue, since you’re at a loss.”
“It’s a mammal, three letters, ends with a ‘U’”
“Gnu” . . .
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August 01, 2006 11:39 PM EDT --
I collect silly or interesting headlines from the junk caught by my spam filter, and thought it would be fun to make up a bit of found poetry using some of those headlines. I was right: it was awfully . . .
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March 11, 2006 10:58 AM EST --
While sitting down to Gather,
I fully intend to go outside....
work the garden
now that day's begun
when suddenly
my eyes are drawn
to the brilliant red
orange yellow
setting sun
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January 24, 2008 09:49 PM EST --
we are mystery
we are divine
we are mid-life
pleasure of fancy
the fantasy one hopes
will happen when all else
has happened
you will be lena left
a woman of intriguing design . . .
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February 26, 2008 03:56 PM EST --
It was a peculiar day in a strange placebo. It was the sneezing season, when wheezing walrus thronged and thrummed through the spaghetti fields, where Manx cats were hiding. . . .
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June 04, 2008 02:42 AM EDT --
I have a friend who lived on my street for forty years. After his wife died, he moved to live with his daughters. Currently, he is in Washington D. C. He is healthy, ninety, and he is bored. . . .
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September 06, 2006 12:39 PM EDT --
The object of this word game is to slowly turn a literary excerpt into another completely different set of sentences, one word at a time. Replace any single word from the below quote with another . . .
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April 05, 2008 11:03 AM EDT --
( For lovely huggily Carolyn M, and all the rest of us circumferentially-challenged)
When I awoke this morning
I received a lucid warning
That I had to take some action on my weight. . . .
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October 24, 2006 05:06 AM EDT --
For my friend:
High Flying Spider Woman Liz Rice-Sosne.
WHERE I LIVE
I live where tigers are tiggers,
And bees don't sting with their stingers.
Give me a tigger . . .
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February 18, 2007 05:02 PM EST --
[ Gidday guys. I feel guilty about not having posted anything for a while, but I've been in the process of moving house. So in lieu of anything original I've dredged up something I wrote back around . . .
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