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Old 01-21-2013, 01:11 AM   #1201
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Scorched earth
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Old 01-21-2013, 01:15 AM   #1202
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Note to Corney Gault: I picked up where you left off, but I note that your entry did not start with the last line of the preceding entry as the game requires. I'm just saying...
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Old 01-21-2013, 09:30 AM   #1203
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Old 01-21-2013, 04:23 PM   #1204
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You take the last line from the cinquain before yours and use it as your starting point. For example: the next one should begin with the word "Water."
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Old 01-22-2013, 03:52 AM   #1205
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water,
the Gift of Life,
where do you hide, outside?
are you not my very fabric,
my world?
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Old 01-23-2013, 02:05 AM   #1206
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My world
is frozen now—
so little is stirring.
Even song birds wait, in silence,
for spring.
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Old 01-23-2013, 07:17 AM   #1207
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for Spring,
dirt will be dug
catalogs will open,
preparations for nature's show;
start now!
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Old 01-24-2013, 07:46 AM   #1208
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Start now
bleed, draw, write, run
hastiliy, speedily
lightning outdone thunder's wings
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Old 01-24-2013, 06:31 PM   #1209
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started
quickly finished
paradoxically
start to bleed from the outside—in
strange case
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Old 01-25-2013, 12:37 AM   #1210
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Strange case—
this yard sale find,
passed over by many.
A small dark box, unadorned, made
of teak.
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Old 02-02-2013, 08:22 PM   #1211
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Of teak
the boat was made.
In waves the vessel sank.
By the beach, my body buried
in sand.
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Old 02-04-2013, 06:44 AM   #1212
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In sand
waves, runs, jumps, plays
soft powdery whiteness
bedazzles in the bright sun's rays
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Old 02-04-2013, 11:47 AM   #1213
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Sea shells
sit on the beach,
untouched except by rain.
Waiting for summer when children
return.
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Old 02-04-2013, 03:44 PM   #1214
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Return
all you've taken,
everything of value,
even my heart. Especially,
I think.
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“So," she says.
I don’t know what to say to that so I sip my tea. It tastes like flowers. I think it does, anyway.
“How old are you?” she says.
“Twelve.”
“Ahh. I remember when my Billy was twelve. Difficult age for a boy. Right on the cusp.”
I don’t know what that means so I sip my tea some more.
~ M. Sparks, EFFIN' ALBERT
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Old 02-16-2013, 09:50 AM   #1215
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I think
hop, skip, jump, think
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Old 02-16-2013, 07:01 PM   #1216
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Do think.
Time for action
will come soon enough, love.
Ramifications ignored are
Folly.
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“So," she says.
I don’t know what to say to that so I sip my tea. It tastes like flowers. I think it does, anyway.
“How old are you?” she says.
“Twelve.”
“Ahh. I remember when my Billy was twelve. Difficult age for a boy. Right on the cusp.”
I don’t know what that means so I sip my tea some more.
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Old 02-25-2013, 06:46 AM   #1217
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Folly
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preposterous, silly
followed foolishness, craziness
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Old 03-09-2013, 11:49 PM   #1218
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Nonsense!
A late spring snow
dusting newly green grass
like dandelions gone to seed—
surreal.
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Old 03-11-2013, 06:39 AM   #1219
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Surreal
observe, express
illusion, fantasy
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Old 03-16-2013, 11:43 PM   #1220
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Sequence
of the seasons.
Knowing spring will soon come,
I scan dirty snow for the first
crocus.
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Old 03-18-2013, 04:09 PM   #1221
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Crocus,
today's first thought,
plows through drifts of slumber.
She calls it crocus, and she is
the snow.
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Old 03-25-2013, 01:08 AM   #1222
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the snow
cold, chilled, freezing
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Snowman,
disembodied,
does your soul summer on
some glacier scanning valleys for
fresh snow?
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Old 04-05-2013, 11:31 PM   #1224
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Fresh snow?
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Old 04-06-2013, 08:52 PM   #1225
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Flowers:
bright, colorful,
pretty as a picture,
swaying, dipping, undulating
thorny.


Yuck!
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