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March/April/(May) Participants

18 Monday May 2009

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Here, at long last, are the Spring participants for March/April/May

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Option One Poetry

  1. The Sound of Rain, by Rahul
  2. Weather Saga, by Jeeves
  3. Urban Perspicacity, by sister AE
  4. Echoes, by Destinee Weathers
  5. To Rain or Not To Rain, by Gemma
  6. It Rains on a Spring Evening, by Cavaliere
  7. Tiny Sprouts, by Bobbi
  8. Weather Means More, by Rebecca Reid
  9. National Poetry Month Farewell, by Linda

    Ann Nickerson

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    Option Two:Fiction
  1. Reformation, by J.C. Montgomery
  2. Twilight in the Garden, by James Steerforth
  3. The Little Meadow, by Bobbi
  4. Alone in the Garden, by The Light Bearer

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Option Three: Timed Writing

  1. Panoramic View of My Heart, by A~Lotus
  2. My Kitchen Garden, by Bobbi
  3. It is Written That…, by James Steerforth

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Option Four: Seven Things

  1. Seven of my Guilty Pleasures, by The Light

    Bearer

  2. Seven Guilty Pleasures, by Ayesha
  3. 7 Guilty Pleasures, by Bobbi

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Option Five: Pick Three

  1. Garden Writing, by Becca
  2. Never-ending Spring, by J.C. Montgomery
  3. My Wild Garden, by Bobbi

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Option Six Can You Picture That?

  1. Come On, Baby, by Destinee Weathers

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Thank you all for your lovely words. New prompts will be posted shortly.

February 2009:Love Letters – Participants

14 Saturday Mar 2009

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Option One Can You Picture That?
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Photo Credit: Xaviarnau via iStockPhoto

  1. Enough of Love, by Little Wing
  2. It’s Not What It Looks Like, by James Steerforth
  3. Bang! Bang!, by Bobbi
  4. He Was Nice, by The Light Bearer

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Option Two Poetry


If I did have an honest — or dishonest — desire to kiss just one or two people, I might — but I couldn’t want to — my mouth is yours.
~Zelda Fitzgerald (in a love letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald)

  1. Others, by Ofira Sephiroth
  2. L’Agent Provacateur, by Carl Colaco
  3. Vessel, by Rob Kistner
  4. My Life-Saver, by Bobbi
  5. Empty Words, by Melanie

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Option Three:Fiction

What can I tell you by letter? Alas! nothing that I would tell you. The messages of the gods to each other travel not by pen and ink and indeed your bodily presence here would not make you more real: for I feel your fingers in my hair, and your cheek brushing mine. The air is full of the music of your voice, my soul and body seem no longer mine, but mingled in some exquisite ecstasy with yours. I feel incomplete without you.
~Oscar Wilde (in a letter to Constance Wilde)

  1. Sending You a Piece of My Heart, by Amercanising Desi
  2. The Consequences, by Jenn

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Option Four: Timed Writing

…should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it,leaves not the smallest space unoccupied..
~Abigail Adams (in a letter to John Adams)

  1. For Fuzzy: A Picture of My Heart, by Melissa A. Bartell
  2. Picture of My Heart, by Becca
  3. My Yellow Heart, by Jessie
  4. Finger Paints, by sister AE
  5. Eat Your Heart Out, by Floreta
  6. The Picture of My Heart, by James Steerforth
  7. My Heart, by Bobbi
  8. A Picture of My Heart, by The Light Bearer

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Option Five: Seven Things

I don’t like it at all. All the Chairs are staring at me in the most frightful way — And there is a Lady on the Mantel piece who has taken a Great objection to me — and I’m awfully scared —

This is no place for a person with a nice cheerful disposition like me — it looks like those parlors in the Novels where they plot things –
~Isadora Duncan (in a letter to Gordon Craig)

  1. 7 Unromantic Places We’ve Kissed, by Bobbi

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Option Six: Pick Three

Do not imagine, because you find these lines in your journal that I have been trespassing. You know I have not – and where else shall I leave a love letter? For I long to write you a love-letter tonight.

You are all about me – I seem to breathe you, hear you, feel you in me and of me.
What am I doing here? You are away. I have seen you in the train, at the station, driving up, sitting in the lamplight, talking, greeting people, washing your hands… And I am here – in your tent – sitting at your table.
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~Katherine Mansfield (in a letter to John Middleton Murray)

  1. Untangling the Past, by Jane Doe
  2. Good Things Come in Pairs, by Annie McLennon
  3. Ex-Varsity, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
  4. Love Letter, by Tamy
  5. Rants, by Jeeves
  6. Unwritten Loveletter, by Leonard Blumfeld
  7. Dearest Love, by Becca
  8. On Peace, by This Girl Remembers
  9. Love Letters, by Janet
  10. Dear, by Dreamer

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Thank you all for your comments and participation, your words of condolence, and your understanding. Welcome to the new folks: Melanie, Dreamer, The Light Bringer, Floreta, and anyone else I’ve missed.

January Participants Page (FRESH)

08 Sunday Feb 2009

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Happy 2009!
These are the submissions for the January 2009 Project, “Fresh.” Please visit them and leave comments if you haven’t already, and look for the February project sometime in the next week.
Submissions for “Fresh” will be accepted until the next Project goes live.

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Option One: Pick Three

Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some.
~John Keats

  1. Down the Rabbit Hole, by Bobbi
  2. Losing Faith, by Jane Doe
  3. Frugal Fusion, by Little Wing
  4. Untitled, by Becca
  5. Nadir, by Paisley
  6. Poem in Draft: Somebody Watching You, by Gautami Tripathy

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Option Two Can You Picture That?

January Project


Photo Credit: Rana K. Williamson

  1. Haiku, by A~lotus
  2. Cardinal Totem, by Bobbi

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Option Three Poetry


I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs.
~William Arthur Ward

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  1. Peace, by Bobbi
  2. Wanted: Contralto Solos, by sister AE
  3. I Prayed for Peace, by Pretty Prats
  4. A Piece of Peace, by Ginger
  5. Grace in Autumn, by diatribalArts

Option Four:Fiction

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~Erich Fromm

  1. Break of Day, by Medhini
  2. The Effort Life Implies, by J. C. Montgomery
  3. January Project, by Jessie

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Option Five: Timed Writing

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.
~Joseph Addison

  1. Words of Passion by Hand, by A~Lotus
  2. A Short-Lived Passion, by Rebecca Reid
  3. Ice, Ice, Baby, by Melissa A. Bartell

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Option Six: Seven Things

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write..
~Pearl S. Buck

  1. My Writing Space, by ell
  2. My Writing Space: A List of Seven Things, by Rebecca Reid
  3. Seven Physical Spaces of Writing, by A~lotus
  4. My Writing Space, by Bobbi
  5. Seven Things in My Writing Space, by Mike G.
  6. Components of my Writing Space, by Ginger
  7. Seven Things, by PinkNic
  8. Hiding Space, by SlyGly
  9. 7 Things, by Tamy
  10. Seven Things, by Janet
  11. Seven Things, by Bonni
  12. Seven Things, by Becca
  13. January Prompts: Fresh, by Michelle
  14. Desk Set, by Melissa A. Bartell

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2008 Holiday Project Particpants

02 Friday Jan 2009

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Welcome to the 2008 Holiday Project at Cafe Writing!
In the month of December we have so many celebrations – the Solstice, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Eve – that it seems wrong to ignore them – but one thing all share is an element of the mystical or magical.

There’s so much bad news in the world today, that rather than focusing on individual holidays, the theme for this month is HOLIDAY MAGIC. It will run through the first weekend of the New Year, I think.

(As an aside, if the quotes seem Christmas-heavy, that isn’t meant to push a personal agenda, and certainly I don’t expect your writings to be Christmas-centric.)

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Option One: Seven Things

That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
~Charles DeLint

  1. It’s a Magical World, by A~Lotus
  2. Indistinguishable from Magic, by Melissa A. Bartell
  3. Seven Magical Things, by Becca
  4. My Magic Seven, by Bobbi
  5. Seven Magical Things, by Janet
  6. Seven Magical Things, by Sister AE
  7. Seven Magical Things by Zan

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Option Two: Pick Three

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Ablaze on evening’s forehead o’er the earth,
And add each night a lustre till afar
An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
~Emma Lazarus, “The Feast of Lights”

  1. Was Jesus Born on Christmas Eve?, by Bobbi
  2. Fascination, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
  3. Scene on a Winter Evening, by Melissa A. Bartell
  4. Hold This Law, by Richard
  5. Playing for Pleasing the Moon, by Gautami Tripathy
  6. La Vie en Rose, by Lissa
  7. Dream or Reality, by Anu

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Option Three: Can You Picture That?
Use the following photo to inspire a piece of writing in any form (poetry, prose, whatever).
(Please remember to copy the image to your own server, and include photo credit when it is known.)

Holiday Project Image

Holiday Project Image

Photo Credit: Konstantin Yuganov

  1. The Wonder, The Magic, by Bobbi
  2. Oh, Wonder, by Niebla

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Option Four: Poetry

If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
~Samuel Smiles

  1. My Angel, by Bobbi
  2. Haiku, by A~Lotus
  3. Living with Angels, by Tiel Aisha Ansari

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Option Five:Fiction

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder

  1. Christmas is Green, by Bobbi

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Option Six: Timed Writing

The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
~Francis P. Church, “Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus”

  1. Unseen Wonders, by Bobbi
  2. Unseen and Unseeable Wonders, by Gemma

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Don’t forget to comment here with your name, the title of your piece, the selected option number, and the direct link to it.

HAPPY WRITING & Happy Holidays

November/December Participants

20 Thursday Nov 2008

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This is the Participants Page for the 2008 November/December Project: Jewels. It will be updated until the Project closes..

Option One: Pick Three

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents’ pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
~Susan Sontag

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Option Two: Can You Picture That?



Photo Credit: Janet Spering

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Option Three: Poetry

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
~Mark Twain

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Option Four: Fiction

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
~Federico Fellini

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Option Five: Timed Writing

I don’t want to own anything until I know I’ve found the place where me and things belong together. I’m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it’s like…. It’s like Tiffany’s…. Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re
forty…
~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
(spoken by the character Holly Golightly)

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Option Six: Seven Things

Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
~George Savile

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Don’t forget to comment here with your name, the title of your piece, the selected option number, and the direct link to it. Also, please note: since the database was destroyed and I’ve had to reconstruct, you’ve ALL become first-time posters again, so your comments will be queued for approval.

Also? There’s still time to submit to this Project. Follow this link for the actual prompts.

HAPPY WRITING

Halloween Project: Participants Page

07 Friday Nov 2008

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Option One: Can You Picture That?

Photo Credit: Jef Poskanzer
Photo Credit: Jef Poskanzer

Option Two: Poetry

Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October’s days.
~ Author Unknown

Option Three: Fiction

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”
~ George Carlin

Option Four: Timed Writing

Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…
~ Nicholas Gordon

Option Five: Seven Things

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Option Six: Pick Three

A house is never silent in darkness
to those who listen intently;
there is a whispering in distant chambers,
an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window,
the latch rises.

Ghosts were created when the first man
woke in the night.
~ J. M. Barrie

Project words: awoke, chamber, distant, ghost, house, listen, still, whisper, window

Anniversary Project (September/October 2008) Participants Page

07 Tuesday Oct 2008

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Option One: Pick Three

Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these
Of mid September; through the still warm noon
The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune
Than ever in the summer; from the trees
Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies,
No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon
In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon
Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.
– Edward Dowden, In September

Pick at least three of the following nine words, and write a paragraph, scene, flash-fic, essay, blog entry or poem using them. It’s fine to change tenses, or pluralize if you want to, but please bold the words you choose.

drop, evenings, glad, mist, motionless, murmur, pallid, rivulets, swoon

1. Knight on Bended Knees, to His Beloved, by Leonard Blumfeld
2. Nine Words, by Janet
3. Carcosan Idyll, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
4. All the Women in the Family, by Melissa A. Bartell
5. Autumn of Life, by Medhini
6. A Rainy Evening, by Sumi
7. The First Drizzle, by Anu

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Option Two: Can You Picture That?

Use the following photo to inspire an entry in any form – fiction, essay, poetry…


Photo Credit: Goldmund at iStockPhoto

1. Latter-Day Variant of an Older Story, by Niebla

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Option Three: Poetry

silence
seeks the center
of every tree and rock,
that thing we hold closest-
the end of songs
– Michael McClintock, Letters in Time

Using the quotation above as your inspiration, write a poem (any form is fine) about silence.

1. Pleistocene Remnant, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
2. Silence, Take 1 (and Take 2), by Mike
3. Addie Bundren’s Posthumous Sermon, by the scôp
4. Bread Rises, by Richard
5. Fisherman, by Gordon

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Option Four: Fiction

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
– Willa Cather

Write a flash-fic, scene, or short story involving either standing in an orchard.

1. The Old Orchard, by Bobbi
2. Herakles in the Hesperides, by Tiel Aisha Ansari

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Option Five: Timed Writing

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
– Henry James

Take nine minutes (use all nine, but don’t go over), and write on the subject of being outside of everything.
This is a timed exercise and it’s expected that it won’t be perfect. Any format – fiction, essay, verse – is acceptable.

1. Being outside of everything (defined), by A~Lotus

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Option Six: Seven Things

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
– Samuel Johnson

In improvisation, one of our exercises is a game called “Seven Things,” in which we go around in a circle giving each other the challenge, “Give me seven things that [whatever].” We are not going to go around in a circle here, but if you’re drawn to lists, this prompt is for you.

So, give me seven tastes or scents that define autumn for you.

You are not required to provide any explanations, but it’s more interesting for readers if you do.

1. Seven Tastes or Scents That Define Autumn, by Janet
2. Feels Like Fall, by MissMeliss
3. Welcome, Autumn, by Bobbi
4. Seven Tastes/Scents of Autumn, by Michelle
5. Seven Tastes or Scents that Define Autumn for Me, by Tamy
6. Seven Things, by Sister AE
7. Seven Tastes and Scents of Autumn, by Mike

Don’t forget to comment on this post with the direct link, title, and selected option for each piece you create. Happy Writing!

July/August Participants

21 Thursday Aug 2008

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First, thank you all for your patience while I’ve been absent this summer. You’re all amazing people and great writers, and I’m happy to be reading your stuff.

Second, at long last, here’s the participants list for July and August. Remember that submissions are open for July/August until the September prompts go live.

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Option One:

1. One Liners: My Shadows, by A~Lotus
2. Seven Shadows, by Leonard
3. Seven Things That Chase the Shadows Away, by Lirone
4. Chasing Shadows, by MissMeliss

Option Two:

1. Eight Words, by Janet
2. Azure Flight, by A~Lotus
3. My Society, by Linda
4. Far Afield, by Linda
5. A Difficult Kind of Dance, by James
6. Alone, by Lissa
7. The Present, by Linda
8. Fondest Imaginings, by MissMeliss

Option Three:

1. Can You Picture That?, by Susana
2. Two Female Moods, by Niebla

Option Four:

1. 6,000 Steps, by Rebecca

Option Five:

1. Muddy Waters, by One More Believer

Option Six:

1. Unopened, by Melissa

March Participants Page

08 Saturday Mar 2008

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Option One: Fiction

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
– George Santayana

Write a flash-fic, scene, or short story about a happier state of mind.

1. Miss Knit Brow, by Medhini
2. Journey, by One More Believer
3. Salt, by Melissa A. Bartell

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Option Two: Timed Writing

Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.
–Author Unknown

Take seven minutes (use all seven, but don’t go over), and write on the subject of fleeting gifts. This is a timed exercise and it’s expected that it won’t be perfect. Any format – fiction, essay, verse – is acceptable.

1. Fleeting Gifts Are…, by A~lotus
2. The Future is Now, by J. C. Montgomery
3. Fleeting Gifts / Easter Runup, by James Steerforth
4. A Dream Divine, by Rebecca

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Option Three: Seven Things

Never think someone will be there forever…forever is a long time and time has a way of changing things.
–Author Unknown

In improvisation, one of our exercises is a game called “Seven Things,” in which we go around in a circle giving each other the challenge, “Give me seven things that [whatever].” We are not going to go around in a circle here, but if you’re drawn to lists, this prompt is for you.

Tell me about seven people who have influenced you.

You are not required to provide any explanations, but it’s more interesting for readers if you do.

1. List #4, by LovesMukiwa
2. Seven People who have Influenced Me, by Janet
3. Seven Things: Influential, by Melissa A. Bartell
4. Seven Influences, by Zan

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Option Four: Pick Three

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
– E.B. White

Pick at least three of the following eight words, and write a paragraph, scene, flash-fic, essay, blog entry or poem using them. It’s fine to change tenses, or pluralize if you want to, but please bold the words you choose.

spring, change, virgin, dalliance, fertile, nature, oil, crank

1. A Mere Dalliance, by James
2. Autumn is the Bridesmaid of Spring, by Gemma
3. Eden Lost, by Tiel
4. Forever Fall, by Jane
5. The Felling of a Tree, by Rebecca
6. Technicolor, by Paisley
7. Early Spring, by Richard
8. The Knifemaker, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
9. Renewal, by J.C. Montgomery
10. Mass Astrological Influences, by Zan
11. Spring, by Lissa

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Option Five: Can You Picture That?

Use the following photo to inspire an entry in any form – fiction, essay, poetry. Please copy the photo to your own server if you want to include it in your post.

If you respond to this prompt, please copy the image to your own server, and credit the photographer Therese Chase. Her web page is here: http://velma-dacron.livejournal.com/.

Butterfly
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1. Butterfly Delight, by Gemma
2. Metamorphosis, by Rebecca
3. Butterflies, by Melissa A. Bartell

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Option Six: Poetry

Each leaf,
each blade of grass
vies for attention.

Even weeds
carry tiny blossoms
to astonish us.
– Marianne Poloskey

Using the quotation above as your inspiration, write a poem (any form is fine) about something you find astonishing.

1. A Gift of Wonder, Love, and Sacredness, by Rebecca
2. Astonishing, by Thaleia
3. Perpetual Amazement, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
4. Flight, by Sunrise Sister
5. Astonishing, by J.C. Montgomery
6. Haiku…Spring, by Beloved Dreamer

February Participants Page

08 Friday Feb 2008

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Option One: Timed Writing

When love is not madness, it is not love.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

1. Love or Madness, by Melody
2. bodies lay still upon the bed, by Rose
3. Succumb, by Sara
4. Endless Possibilities, by Gautami
5. Special Kind of Love, by Steve
6. Lucidity in Love, by J.C.
7. Love And/Or Madness in Hamlet, by Catherine
8. Rare Phenomenon, by Anu

Option Two: Seven Things

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
~William Shakespeare

1. Seven Things, by Janet
2. Respiration Alterations, by SlyGly
3. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by Medhini
4. Sighing Times Seven, by Becca
5. Seven Things that Make Me Sigh, by Jane

Option Three: Pick Three

Dreaming time has reversed, I watch drowned snow
Appear to lift up from the lake;
Reshaping magnified, each risen flake
Looms in the air, deliberate and slow,
Allowing me to let your picture form and wake
Astonished that you have returned to go
To watch me watch drowned snow lift from the lake.
Dreaming time has reversed—and you,
Your red cheeks radiant against the wind,
Are gliding toward me on the ice into
A frame of glided twilight—I
Again awaken from your being gone to find
Your gloved hands covering your lips’ good-bye
So you can watch me watch uplifted snow
As if your absence now concluded long ago.
– Robert Pack, Snow Rise

1. Progression, by Becca
2. Gilded Conclusion, by Gemma
3. Fractal Arms, by Tiel
4. The Visitors, by Rebecca
5. Unlucky, by Lissa
6. 10 to 10, by Gautami
7. The Merger and Oh!, by sister AE
8. She Died in February, by Lilibeth
9. Astonished, by Carole
10. A Snowy Dream, by Anu
11. A Lesson in Vulnerability, by Sara
12. Caught in the Current, by J.C.
13. The Duke’s Wife, by Catherine
14. What It Is Or Isn’t, by Virginia

Option Four: Can You Picture That
Beverly Lussier – His Entire World

1. I Walk in Your Footprints, by Gemma
2. The Dog, by Greg
3. Achilles, by Rebecca
4. His Entire World, by Paisley
5. Puppy Love Stories, by A~lotus
6. Delilah’s Garden, by J.C.
7. Sliver, by Jimmy

Option Five: Poetry

From December to March, there are for many of
us three gardens:
the garden outdoors,
the garden of pots and bowls in the house,
and the garden of the mind’s eye.
– Katherine S. White

1. Already Beside Me, by Tiel
2. Beating Around the Bush by A~lotus
3. My Winter Gardens, by sister AE
4. God’s Beautiful Rain Body, by Richard
5. Dirty Hands, by Brian
6. Garden of Peace, by Anu

Option Six: Fiction

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
~Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum

1. Launched Love, by Little Wing
2. Gourmet Love, by Brian
3. Submerge, by Gautami