This
meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her
to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now
Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a
movable feast.
Essentially
the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice
of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we
do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a
poem, or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the
prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some
of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on
their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible
joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.
This week's prompts are:
- art
- awe
- dreamscape
- face
- moonlit,
And/or
- breathless
- me
- oxygen
- tanka
- you
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has given us Dahlia Yellow as the colour of the month. If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.
Have fun.
Hi EC and Sean ...
ReplyDeleteMe - I'm breathless in desperate need of oxygen … perhaps you'll turn up in time to complete the Tanka poem, which I need to submit for my essay.
Also this dahlia yellow wallpaper is driving me demented … perhaps you planned this on the day you had to read a 'Who Dunn It' … to the Read Aloud Group.
Is there an end to our story …?
Cheers Hilary
Well done!
DeleteExcellent, Hils. Especially the use of dahlia yellow.
DeleteSandra sandracox.blogspot.com
Hilary Melton-Butcher: Love it - but don't expect any help from me with your tanka. They are beyond me.
DeleteAt your service, Hilary. ;-)
DeleteThese prompts left me a little breathless, too. Nicely done.
DeleteWall paper great, good, or insane. Well done, hope things calm down in time! LOL
DeleteThanks all - it's grey now! Cheers Hilary
DeleteWell done Hilary!
DeleteXO
WWW
I hope for no end. Well done
DeleteWonderfully done!
DeleteI am so in awe of the artist Dahlia Yellow's work. One piece in particular of which I can't remember the name but is very famous. It has her signature moonlit dreamscape, and a shadowy face hovering in the background.
ReplyDeleteSandra sandracox.blogspot.com
Sandra Cox: I would love to see that painting. Really love it.
DeleteNot surprising you would remember rather the artist's name than the name of her very famous piece.
DeleteGood one, Sandra.
I can imagine such a painting.
DeleteHi Sandra - I'd remember her name, not necessarily the art work ... fun to read - cheers Hilary
DeleteInteresting Sandra, I don't read others' contributions till I've done my own and I had to smile, well done!
DeleteXO
WWW
Well done - and thanks for using my colour.
DeleteExcellent!
DeleteI love art. I mourn that I am an appreciator rather than a creator and am in awe at those people who create moonlit dreamscapes for me to get lost in. I don’t care what their medium is, their work leaves me breathless. Their inspiration and dedication provide oxygen to feed my addiction to beauty.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I write occasionally, including some bad poetry Mind you haiku and tankas are beyond me. The mathematics of counting syllables does me in. I once read that poetry is the language of the heart. I could see their point but my heart is (unlike me) multi-lingual. Rainbows, the sun glowing dahlia yellow through clouds, laughter, nature, kindness, and art in all its forms (to name but a few) are the languages of my heart.
Please accept these words as an expression of gratitude to the creators of beauty. You enrich my world.
Lovely tribute. Lovely tribute. But why would you hide your light under a bushel, Sue? You are good. Period.
DeleteYou are an artist with your garden and your photos.
DeleteEspecially nice this week, EC! I love "moonlit dreamscapes."
DeleteLove,
Janie
But you are an artist! One of the most talented! And you, an angel on earth, enrich the lives of all you touch!
DeleteHi EC - this was wonderful ... a rendition of the glorious work of art ... thank you - cheers Hilary
DeleteYou are SO an artist EC, your work speaks for itself.
DeleteXO
WWW
Your writing/blog is a form of art. And you taught me something new today; I had to go look up what a tanka was... :)
DeleteVery well done from a very talented artist of pen and photos!
DeleteHey, this is as "artsy" as it gets - meant very positively. You ARE a creator too!
DeleteWhat a lovely sentiment.AND I love the sun glowing dahlia yellow.
ReplyDeleteSandra sandracox.blogspot.com
You leave me breathless as you go
ReplyDeleteIn a moonlit dreamscape of new fallen snow,
Your face a work of art.
And yet your inner thoughts are such
That I will never know.
The Blog Fodder: Your poem leaves me breathless.
DeleteExcellent. Kudos.
DeleteBeautifully done.
DeleteLovely poem! The "moonlit dreamscape of new fallen snow" is my favorite scenery of all!
DeleteHi Blog Fodder - 'your face a work of art' ... so true so often - thank you ... cheers Hilary
DeleteOh such beauty captured in your words!
DeleteXO
WWW
Lovely. I especially love the first line.
DeleteSandra sandracox.blogspot.com
What an excellent tanka! I love this!
DeleteWell done!
DeleteHilary asks for a tanka. Voilà:
ReplyDeleteTanka
Whilst thou art sleeping
A moonlit dreamscape your face.
Watching you in awe
Your beauty makes me breathless.
Your love is my oxygen.
Sean Jeating: Thank you. And applause.
DeleteApplause from me, too.
DeleteThanks Sean - I think I need an education in word-smithing, and on poetry. Beautifully descriptive - thank you for the special notation! Gosh I'd love to be able to write like that ... congratulations - cheers Hilary
DeleteCheers Sean a little marvel!
DeleteXO
WWW
Wow, Sean. So lovely and evocative. Applause. Applause.
DeleteSandra sandracox.blogspot.com
I've no idea what tanka is. In Russian it is a crude name for Tatiana as opposed to a soft name like Tanyushka
DeleteInteresting extra snippet on the word 'tanka' - thanks TBF ... Tanyushka is a lovely name ... cheers Hilary
Deleteabsolutely beautiful. I'm breathless.
DeleteYes! Well done indeed.
DeleteLovely stories!
ReplyDeleteDeniseinVA: They are. And I fully expect there will be more to come.
DeleteI was breathless and in awe as I tried to get oxygen into my moonlit face so I coulda tanka you for helpin' me witha my dreamscape art.
ReplyDeleteMike: That is a skilful cheat. Thanks for the smile.
DeleteHa ha ha . . .
DeleteHeeheehee! I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read this.
DeleteI'd like to see what you with yellow after giving us this taste of what you can do!
DeleteXO
WWW
How about "yellow moonlit face"?
DeleteVery well done! Thank you for the giggle. It was needed.
Delete:) Very funny.
DeleteMy tidbit will be over here.
ReplyDeletemessymimi: I look forward to reading it - as I always do.
DeleteA very lovely story!
DeleteI was in awe at the face of the moon as I stared at the dreamscape that appeared in a photograph I took using only the moonlit night!
ReplyDeleteYolanda Renee: This is truly beautiful.
DeleteHi Yolanda - clever take ... cheers Hilary
DeleteLovely!
DeleteXO
WWW
Impressively pictorial, Yolanda – with even less words than Mike. ;-)
DeleteBeautifully done!
DeleteI struggle to get a good photo of the moon by moonlight. It always looks like an out-of-focus blob! Well done!
DeleteGood use of the words. Photographing the moon is an art!
Deletetanka? tanka you for the awesome words?
ReplyDeleteRiver: Nice use of the word.
DeleteSo a tanka is a type of poem? No wonder I didn't know the word. Poems and me are mortal enemies. I really like all the entries above me here.
ReplyDeleteRiver: It is. A Japanese poem, with like haiku a specified number of syllables in each line.
DeleteLovely stories.
ReplyDeleteMy brain is working again..
I was sitting alone at the lake on a MOONLIT evening in AWE of the scene before me. A DREAMSCAPE in reality was a man with a handsome FACE in the distance with muscles so beautifully formed and yet, moving like a gracious swan in the water. The ART of it all is magic.
Margeret D: This is a lovely use of the prompts. Again.
DeleteVery sweet, I like he moved like a gracious swan. Ballet came to mind.
DeleteXO
WWW
Oh, I like this! Nice use of the words and you've painted a lovely picture in my mind.
Delete:) Messymimi, I too had a lovely picture in my mind...lol
DeleteThank you all.
Oh do share the image because my mind conjured up something wonderful as well.
DeleteBallet also came to my mnd. Nice.
DeleteHi Margaret - your brain worked well ... must have been a fun time! Lovely vignette - cheers Hilary
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DeleteIt was working overtime on that one Hilary.
DeleteThank you.
I was inspired to join you all today.
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Dear Edward,
I am in receipt (and in awe) of your tanka and hasten to respond.
My painting of the dahlias was more of a dreamscape. I know that vivid yellow does not exist in nature. But if you peer more closely you will see me, the face, peering at you from the centre.
It is all basically an illusion, the moonlit backdrop, the outline of an oxygen tank, and your interpretation captured my intent so marvelously.
I would like us to meet and discuss further.
Yours,
Dahlia.
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XO
WWW
Wisewebwoman: This is lovely. And hints at a much bigger story to be told. I really hope they do meet...
DeleteRecently having watched "Casablanca" once again "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship".
DeleteLovely you joined us, Mary. And so inspired!
They sound like they need to discuss it further. They play off of each other well.
DeleteI love that you put this in letter form and had Dahlia's face in the center of the dahlia:)
DeleteVery clever.
Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com
Hi WWW - that was very clever ... well done - and Dahlia did us proud with her letter. Cheers Hilary
DeleteThis lookes like a great bginning. Well written!
DeleteMine has taken my breath away here
ReplyDeleteCindi: And mine.
DeleteYour garden and your photos.
ReplyDeletePlease read and comment on my new article: https://www.melodyjacob.com/2023/10/retirement-dilemma-selling-your-home-for-care-costs.html
Thank you
Art awe dreamscape
ReplyDeleteface moonlit,
breathless
me!
oxygen?
tanka you!
Cloudia: Love it. Thank you.
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