Half Way Done for This Long Week...

" I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time. " ~  Margaret Atwood

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<~~ Update-

yes it is indeed a frog.. isn't he beautiful..

I have at least one side-kick that could

use a prince so I thought about kissing

him for her... but before I could manage

it he sang a rain song and hopped away...

Both Camella and Sheri were right with

their guesses..

Keep a watchful eye for my next What is it..

What is it?-  I have decided to offer another what is it game .. this one might be a tiny bit tricky..

I hope that you give it a close look and see if you can come up with a guess.. I think someone

out there will know what this it.. maybe that someone is you.. Please post a comment with your guess

of you can post if on my face-book if we are friends.. you might surprise yourself and make a great

guess.. this is something that is very common and you might have even seen one today... I know I did..

I will up-date tomorrow with a photo that shows what this  is..

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Project 365- a Photo Every Day

grassland

colorful prairie chickens strut
a dry and windy sea of grass
timber wolves howl
Savannah


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011








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reef
warm water caresses
ocean habitat rich with life
colorful creatures a beautiful rainbow
shoal

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-23-2011









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The Rooster

feathers fluttering
one young phoenix escapes me
hens scratch cracked corn

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
 8-24-2011

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Thanks for stopping by tonight.. Please do guess at the what is it.. I welcome both comments and followers!
Have a great day!
Patsy

One Rooster On the Run..

" To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do would be to be a god. "

 ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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Project 365~ a Photo a Day..

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3 Word Wednesday-  Gasp- mute- viable


Mimic

mute derelict gasps
viable employment found ~
"young parrot wanted"


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011

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Haiku Heights #56 - whisper

Trapeze

awed watchers whisper
afraid to break the silence ~
flyer leaps forward
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Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011


Sunday Scribblings #280-  forward

One Single Impression- silence

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Release

rising through the air
eyes closed - arms stretched open wide
knees flexed -  trucks touch down

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011


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Spectre

four masted schooner
eerily drifts on the waves
smugglers sip on rum

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-17-2011


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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I hope you enjoyed your time here.. I enjoy comments and welcome followers.. Have a wonderful day!~
Patsy

Friday.. Cold .. Dogs Barking at Shadows and My Left Hand is Itching..

"This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top."
~ David Lynch

"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
~ Antonio Machado

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
~ Franz Kafka


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Week End Wordsmith #186- "Socks" -

Grandma Knits-

rockers creak fireside
woolen stitches sing along~
new socks warm my toes

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
1-21-2011

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Hunting Party

mountainside wolf howls
mournfully at father sky

squaw turns drying bear

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
1-18-2011

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Just Breath

my shadow
scarred and driven by pain
stomps along
companion through dreams denied
no heart- no tears- no life

written By: Patricia Sawyer
1-17-2011

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Thanks for stopping by my blog today.. I welcome both comments and followers..
Have a wonderful day!

Patsy

Sunday.. Lazy Hot With a Threat of a Storm.. Short poems..

"Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language."
~ PETER PORTER

"Poetry's a zoo in which you keep demons and angels."
~ LES MURRAY

"Poetry is... a kind of leaving of notes for another to find, and a willingness to have them fall into the wrong hands." ~ MATTHEW HOLLIS


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Haiku Heights.. Prompt #5

Festival~

shimmering costumes~
a princess behind the mask
arms lifted for beads

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-22-2010

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Bubbles~

eyes closed
I blow
emptying my heart..
The sad bubble rises
carrying my woes
heavenward

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
8-22-2010


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It has been very hot today.. the kind of hot that leaves you lazy.. wanting to nap beneath a blowing fan.. Air conditioner on high.. I think I could have slept.. but I never tried.. Dogs wanted walking and then as soon as we were out they wanted in.. the computer took it's own time.. ignoring me all day.. and sooooo.. today has been a trial.. thankfully it is now almost over.. Tomorrow is a Poetry club meeting.. Yay!!! That means out and about.. I love out and about!
Thanks for stopping by my blog .. Have a great Night..
Patsy

Three for Thursday!

"Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit." - Robert H. Schuller

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert H. Goddard

"To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
- Tom Robbins





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#1~ a few Haiku for you!

Seaside

daylight emerging
sleepy harbor roars to life
fishwife hawks her wares

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
1-10-2010

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A Winter Day

gray morning skies
empty of sweet bird song~
I carry fire wood

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
1-10-2010

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Waiting on Sunrise

at the distant shore
a bathing blue heron~
my cork vanishes


Written By: Patricia Sawyer
10-16-2009











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#2~The Thursday Challenge for today is the theme "ROUND" (Circle, Sphere, Curves, Moon, Clock, Coins,...) Snowballs?!

This is Kirstin with her ~almost~ round snow ball


that she made when we had a rare snow a few weeks ago.. she is so funny.. I asked her where the rest of her snowman was and she said she only needed a ball to have her picture made with and that there was really no need to finish him because he would melt anyway! Children are way to smart!!


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#3~ Just a thought~ all of tonight's quotes deal with the word impossible.. It seems to me that almost every day now we are faced with more and more things that seem impossible to overcome.. Jobs are so hard to find and lets face it bosses can be picky.. they ask for the nearly impossible and if you can't measure up they can dive right back into the pool of job seekers just on the slim... if not the impossible chance of finding someone who can do what they want done.. and eventually they will find someone desperate enough to do what they want the way they want it done.. My electric bill is impossible!.. I held my breath as I carefully tore it open... IMPOSSIBLE!! How can it keep going higher and higher? I have nothing left to turn off..Every one I know is talking about the impossible electric bills.... Food prices are continually on the rise.. The store thought I would pay almost four dollars for one tomato.. I left It there and guess what.. it is possible to have just a bacon and lettuce sandwich.. Soon I will have tomatoes growing here and it will seem impossible to get them all fixed and packed into jars but somehow I will manage to do it.. I am hoping for a good harvest.. Reading over the quotes I thought about all the times in my life that I thought something was impossible.. many of those things seem silly now.. I guess that the thought I would like to share is that nothing is as impossible as it may seem at this moment.. impossible things will be accomplished with hard work and sometimes with more than one try.. but one does have to try! If you have a dream that seems impossible find out all you can about what it will take to set your dream in motion.. many times it is a simple solution that is needed to accomplish the impossible! Have a great day!
Patsy

Write a What?? What?? What??

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."

~ Rex Harrison

"No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place."

~ Isaac Babel


"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words."

~ Ecclesiastics

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I think you will agree that these forms of acrostic poems might make you stop and say ..

"write a WHAT!"

That was my first thought when I glanced at the assignment for my on-line poetry writing class at Allpoetry.com..

they were actually very easy to write and I'll bet that most of you could even write your own..

each one has a hidden word or message in them.

The first one.. a mesostich~ has a word hidden right down the middle.. I chose my own name and then wrote the poem to fit what I feel about my own name..

The second one was even easier.. known as a Telestich~ it has a message or a word along the ending letters of each line.. for this one I used the word spider as I sat and gazed at one out the window.. I am quiet fond of spiders.. especially the giant green garden spiders that share the spaces beneath the trees here with us.. I do in fact have a spider tattoo on my shoulder..

The final form for this assignment was called a Cross acrostic.. it has a message or word spread across the poem.. the first letter of the first line.. the second letter on the second line and so on and so on and so on.. I have a saying.. I don't get angry.. I get even.. and this third acrostic talks about the pleasure we can get from plotting a new evenness!

I hope you enjoy the short poems for tonight and I hope today was a good day for you..

I know I have been missing a lot lately.. I continue to plan for Emily's upcoming wedding..

Have a great Night!

Patsy

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mesostich~ word- Patsy


I am~

honey Perhaps
please not patty nor pat
sweetheart if you must
it is easy to say
give it a try say my name

written BY: Patricia Sawyer
2-1-2010

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telestich~ word-spider

A Tangled Web

sunrise glitters on dewy drops
that rest on the lace... bottom and top
am I afraid.. oh no not I
I would never raise my hand
not to slap nor swipe
one just like you adorns my shoulder.

written By: Patricia Sawyer
2-1-2010

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cross acrostic~ word revenge

I Never Anger~

Reality sparks
feelings of anger
waves of hatred
sweet thoughts
we can plot
seeing a new way
even the score


Written By:
Patricia Sawyer
2-1-2010

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