One Word - so little time - One Minute Writing Exercise [successful]

"While I hope your venture is successful, I really feal that you are leaving for the wrong reason," his mother cautioned him, "You should never do a thing just to please a woman even if she is your queen and your mother."

"But your magesty," he smiled respectfully, "I'm doing this to please two women. There is a lady across the sea that I intend to bring home and make my princess!"

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Today's word kindly supplied by Jay.

haiku (for Jay)

Tracing the vine's bulk

on a quiet winter day,

I see what you mean.

Photo by: Osquer

Fibonacci Poem

I

am

startled

by morning

birdsong, but no less

by the cold air that meets my gasp.

One Word - so little time - One Minute Writing Exercise [malapropism]

"You could have knocked me over with a fender!" She concluded her story with a grin. I avoided pointing out her malapropism because I knew it would just start her off on another tangent and I was relieved that her long rambling story was over. Besides, I was imagining how much I would like to see her knocked over with a fender...of someone's car. I really should learn to drink more at these office parties.

haiku

This shot would have been

more fun if there had been a

train on the trestle.

Photo by: Osquer

One Word - so little time - One Minute Writing Exercise [collegial]

While the brainstorming session didn't exactly create a collegial atmosphere, it did at least get everyone talking, or rather shouting about the difficulties they had all been facing. When everyone realized that all of their recent problems had been caused by the same unreasonable supervisor who had called this meeting, the shouting became more harmonious and suddenly suggestions were being made. They weren't the most positive suggestions, most of them involving impossible physical acts with office equipment, but they were at least on the same page for once.

magnetic haiku

I dream green gardens
beneath winter's frost fever
Eden's ghost lingers

One Word - so little time - One Minute Writing Exercixse [indefatigable]

Long before she had reached the end of her indefatigable supply of questions, I had run out of answers. It was especially the ones that began with "Why" that made me cringe. If adults could come up with as many creative notions as this three year old, we would already have colonies on the moon.

magnetic haiku

picture this moment
as we will recall it, a
diamond cut by time

One Word - so little time - One Minute Writing Exercies [galumph]

"Look, I know you're depressed, but you can't just galumph around this place in your underwear smashing things. Eventually you'll run out of things to smash. Come on, get up. We're just going to have to find you a new mad scientist. I wish they were more durable, but you just don't know your own strength. There's a good monster."

magnetic haiku

winter wind plays harsh
with spring thinking, clouding warm
smiles in frosty breath

haiku (March 2, 2007)

May I never cease

to find wonders, even at

the grocery store.

Photo by: Osquer - March 2, 2007

One Word - so little time - one minute writing exercise [sagacious]

As sagacious as her guardian was, he had not discovered that every night at midnight little Sally sneaked out of the house and went wandering over the countryside. She cavorted with faeries and elves to her heart's content and then nipped back to her bed every morning before breakfast time. Luckily for her she was still expected to take a nap every day. It never occurred to her guardian to wonder why she was so willing to lie down quietly every afternoon.

haiku (for Rob)

Though the sunlight had

drilled a path through the clouds, I

did not see the moon.

Photo by: Osquer

One Word - so little time - one minute writing exercise [drilled]

Her mother had drilled honesty into her head from such an early age that when the time came that she needed to lie to her mother to save her life, she almost couldn't get the words out. "Come on, Mom! Dad's already in the tunnel!" He wasn't. She didn't actually know where her father was, but it was the only way she could get her mother out before the soldiers got there.

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Gee, Rob, can you tell I've been watching "The Great Escape" today?

The Pick Osquer's One Word Contest...

OneWord doesn't seem to be updating. So, here's a contest to pick the word for me to write about. The first person to post a word in the comments wins. The prize is that I will use your word for my OneWord post. I will also write a haiku especially for you! I've got my sixty second timer set to go. Someone give me the word!

One of the best things about www.oneword.com for me was the fascination of being able to read other people's perspectives on the same word. So, if anyone out there would like to play along at home, I'd love it if you posted your own OneWord entry in the comments. Just set a sixty second timer (or guesstimate about a minute) and write whatever comes to your mind about the winning word for today. As they say on www.oneword.com (when it works) "Don't think. Just write." Then share your thoughts in the comments to my OneWord post. I'd love to see what you have to say!

magnetic haiku (for Jean-Luc Picard)

haiku

The sky, a pewter

and purple bruise, will just have

to cry itself out.

Photo by: Osquer

haiku

I saw a deer cross

the street today, and I looked,

but there were no more.

55 Fiction Friday

“It wasn’t until after their accidental death in a cave-in at one of my fath…that is, Professor Applegate’s digs that I learned that the Applegates weren’t my parents. It was only a week ago that I learned that you are my father, Your Grace.” With this Jessica held out her recently recovered birth certificate.

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