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Paint the Town Red – 100 Days of Summer

Red Boat
Red Boat

I am taking part in the Project 100 Days of Summer 2012. In the words of the organizers:

“100 Days of Summer provides its members with the opportunity to share their creative work within the intense framework of providing one artistic submission per day for 100 days. Officially, we are beginning on July 5th and expect the program to run through October 15th or so.”

Steve Veilleux provides the prompts using “cards from a game called ‘The Origin of Expressions’. ” He encourages us to use the information in any way we like, “borrow ideas from other postings, or create literal or abstract interpretation of the expression”.

Expression #1 follows (week of July 1-7):
Paint the town red
Meaning: Spend a wild night out
and
Expression #2 (week of Jul 1-7)
“out like a light”
Meaning: Fast asleep

So, here we go! We Paint the Town Red! I will be posting mainly haiku/senryu and micropoems with the occasional photo haiku and photographs.

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‘Things with Wings and Other Poems’ 26 June 2012

Things with Wings & Other Poems” is now up as a PDF on Yay Words.

“Things…”  is a collection of doodleku  derived from a month-long challenge, initiated by Aubrie Cox on her blog Yay Words!

Throughout March 2012, poets were invited to participate in a challenge called “I Doodle, You ’Ku.” A doodle was posted each day and poets wrote poems in response to it.

I didn’t catch on until mid-month, but then what fun it was! Aubrie had the difficult task of choosing one/more haiku per day to go with her doodle. I don’t know how she did it, but the resulting collection is amazing! Truly splendid! Visit and see!

 

 

‘peony’ #3 June 2012

peony

no shame

in your beauty

Source: etsy.com via Stella on Pinterest

NaHaiWriMo prompt: something positive

Source of inspiration and image: Photograph by Kitty Rogers, of Whimsical Photography. Her wonderful photos can be bought from her shop on etsy (I got to find out about Kitty Rogers via Lisa Orgler’s pins, on Pinterest)

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