by Dana Guthrie Martin
Were you able to respond to this week’s image prompt by oncle Jim? Perhaps you talked about a land of animal-headed humans or about how strange you feel in your own skin sometimes, at once human and not human. Maybe you depicted a surreal landscape populated by all manner of strange creatures. Whatever you wrote, we can’t wait to see how you responded to the image.
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This is Your Life
If a certain Shakespearean weaver’s descendants went to Australia…
Midsummer in Oz
Here is my contribution for this week. I am excited to see what everyone else did with the prompt. Woohoo!
Carousel
You’ll find mine in this post:
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/identity
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-walk.html
Lovely picture
I have “donkey”
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/donkey/
Here’s mine:
Transcript of a Recording Found in a Briefcase Abandoned on the Plains (c. 1977)
Listen, can you hear it?
The jackass of playful creation
My response is
daydreaming about life
Here’s what I’ve got:
http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/the-reconstruction-falters
Cracked Lens
http://strattonm.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/read-write-image-17-now-known-as-read-write-prompt-81/
Enjoy!
Donkey Boy
it’s strange how an image can conjure alleyways in our thoughts that lead us to lost realms or dead ends. i didn’t write on a literal interpretation of this picture, however the animalistic qualities, solitary existence, and stinking atmosphere elicited a response. my first “picture challenge” was met with attention deficit for sure!
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/07/benevolent-baltimore.html
thanks for journeying….
I went to the classics for Bottom Wakes
equus asinus asinus
Trying one more time to see if I can leave this link: http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2009/06/bottom-wakes.html
Mmmm… fantasies. Here’s my contribution:
Fantasize
http://thinkingcities.blogspot.com/2009/07/fantasize.html
guatami thanks for pointing out the error in my hyperlink, i think this one should look. thanks again all for the comments on an abstract take off an abstract visual, looking forward to the next!
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/07/benevolent-baltimore_02.html
guatami thanks for pointing out the error in my hyperlink, i think this one should work. thanks again all for the comments on an abstract take off an abstract visual, looking forward to the next!
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/07/benevolent-baltimore_02.html
http://dazed55.blogspot.com/2009/06/xx-by-nwolc-sanford-he-huddles-in-wide.html
Well, I wrote this when it was a donkey head, so I used that concept in my poem…
Whew! I did not know what to do with this prompt for several days! Thanks for the challenge.
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/07/deluded.html
Thought too long and too hard about this one. It finally came to me as I was brushing my teeth.
http://texas2tennessee.blogspot.com/2009/07/double-take.html
here is mine
Well, okay, this is my first time on here. Very cool place, though.
http://namingconstellations.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/thou-art-translated/
welcome joseph
What Goes Around
Sorry this is late. I was on retreat in Trappist Monastery. No phones, e-mail, internet, i.a.
Fun prompt! I thought I’d slip mine in at the last minute…
National emblem
Poor old skippy
in tatters
national emblem
of a nation
too ancient
too red
too vast
too hot
skin cancered
fully clothed too late
crippled by white appendages
on fluro fake grass
from somewhere else
all the didgeridoos
chopped up for firewood
Struth what anti tourist terrorist
let this out of the bag?
rewind to beer beach and barbecue
serious summer surfing
watermelon mangoes and lamingtons
the more appealing
face of the nation.