by Dana Guthrie Martin
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Were you all enchanted/haunted/creeped-out by this week’s image prompt? What did these two figures, crouched in a cemetery, have to tell you? However the image affected you, we’d like to hear about it! 
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This prompt was so evocative for me, I got mine done early: Calling the Ghost
And a bonus (well, it was a bonus for me, anyway): Snapshot Poem 29 July 02009
Here is mine!
http://mygorgeoussomewhere.org/2009/07/29/read-write-prompt-85-spooky/
I wanted to do something a little deeper with this, but this is what I came up with…enjoy!
http://freckledwriter.blogspot.com/2009/07/graveyard-warning.html
OK, I’m going back to sleep now. Here’s my link: http://disorder1313.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/how-to-be-difficult
Mine is a strange Mirage.
(It’ll take me a while to read you all again this week. And I think I am still behind from the last two. I’m sorry for those I’ve missed.)
No poem from me this week, but I have been attending poetry events and book launches, and have a review of a poetry/music collaboration here
Did people read the top of the post and learn about how we’re launching a new site this Friday? Please read the post, and then read the three posts below this one for details.
Mine is titled Persistence.
and my link,
the twilight zone
My Link:
http://constantcurrent.blogspot.com/2009/07/brothers.html
I didn’t get “spooky” out of this. It surprised me the direction it took, quite honestly. Wonderful photo!!
On visiting a grave
Conversation with a stranger in a cemetery
Xmas day 2004
Xmas day with acres of sky bright blue
and stinking hot
something strange about the cicadas today
the high pitched shrill seems lower and softer
like a subdued sob
Xmas in the bush with mountains of food and grog
my favourite time of year…but as the day progressed a black cloud enveloped me so tightly
that not even the tinsel and bon bons could cheer me
Clinking of glasses chatting and joviality echoed like muffled murmurs in slow motion
I smiling big white flashes nodding and laughing in all the right places feigning conviviality completely preoccupied and deaf to everything willing my watch to go faster so that I could leave without rude haste.
Finally…home and sleep!
Night terror begins to the sound of the roaring wind
A distant giant wall wave approaches like an army
of dirty mirrors flanked in perfect rhythm closer and closer and as the crest curls I awake drenched in a sea of sweat
Grateful for the dawn cool I remind myself to pack
In a few hours I fly out to meet my suntanned saronged island girl sipping mai tais by the beach in
THAILAND
http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-between-us.html
I enjoyed doing it:
don’t forget to get my cigars
This is mine.
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2009/07/twilight.html
I’ve been playing a lot this week–too much rain!
I did some ‘erasures’–thanks, Dana!
pick the one you want to read–this is a link to my tag:
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/tag/erasures/
…and I re-worked a poem written a few months ago for the photo prompt:
http://therer2doors.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/this-class-of-81/
Will I Remember You, Old Earth
I really enjoyed this prompt!!
Here’s mine for the week:
Living in Minneapolis Without Faces
Great image!
Bernard
Enjoy!
Fun prompt
Great picture for inspiring writing. Here’s mine:
Summoning
Wasn’t too thrilled by what came about, but here it is anyway…
http://namingconstellations.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/the-graverobbers-song/
Can’t wait for tomorrow!!
Here’s a poem/song inspired by the photo:
http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/2009/07/this-is-monochrome-memory-this-is-blast.html
This is where the image prompt took me:
Spooky
didn’t write to the picture this week, however dana did inspire me with her prompt. as dana found this photo, i found this poem. her inspiration came from something that she didn’t plan on coming upon, much like this piece, inspired by the unexpected, and once found, cherished. hope you dig it and look forward to reading everyone’s poems.
http://beatnikprose.blogspot.com/2009/07/valuables-found-poem.html
lawrence
Epilogue to a short man
Prompt 85 using Doug Shaver’s photo …I have come up with Where The Dead Whisper
love this site…well done…i just posted on my blog about creating art with your words
I plan to return to this one – it feels fairly undone, but the prompt was too juicy not to post. I printed the picture out a week ago and have been taking it from room to room with me, asking it to speak. I got down to the following dialog:
Grounds Crew Morning
I wish I had more time to work on this.
http://paperdreams-jgc.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-prompt-great-picture-not-so-great.html
Once again, I didn’t manage to write anything for the prompt, though I did write this week’s Torah poem; if you’re interested you can find it here:
Promise
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2009/07/this-weeks-portion-promise.html
Nocturne – a video poem