chipped paint old row boat
skim over clouds egret flight
water calm ink dark
(c) Lemuel
27 April 2018Haiku
Inspiration
Studio Cthulhu, a Limerick
The sculptor picked up a big mallet,
Chiseled out four gargoyles how Gothic.
Marble, pine, and limestone;
One extruded blue foam–
All four eerily Miskathonic.
(c) Lemuel
27 April, 2018
Daily prompt: Mallet, Second-helping
Limerick
<a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/mallet/”Mallet</a>
Temptation
Charcoal on prepared paper 23 cm x 32 cm, 9 in x 12 in, 96 gms, 65 lb
Intention
I demonstrate what choices look like. Inclusion of mid-tones, shades, and deceptive simplicity because we can be tempted about which decision is best. Or at least better. Or even not so terrible.
Hope.
Flowers Warning
flowers
cryptic, sans note
restrained Ikebana
silent warning perched in plain sight
birthday
Lemuel
3-31-18
This is my attempt at writing in the cinquain poetic form which is reputed to be borrowed from Tanka.
- 5 lines long
- 2 syllables, 4 syllables, 6 syllables, 8 syllables, 2 syllables
- flexible to +/- 1 syllable from each line
No One Holds my Leash
Some time in the past I learned to “practice the fundamentals”. This advice or maybe it was a hard-bitten lesson to my hard head, anyway the rule has followed me through all aspects of my life.
If you want to get good at something, then practice the fundamentals. Talent will take you only so far. Sometimes luck will take you further than talent. The basics make the game and in my case make the Art.
The fundamentals are the framework for your razzle-dazzle.
I learned to pay my dues. Own my mistakes. Learn and move on. Accept my successes. Learn and move on.
No one holds my leash.
Foreign, Top Ten Definitions
Top ten entries or definitions of foreign if I were to write a dictionary entry:
1 To wander.
2 A sojourn.
3 A pilgrimage.
4 A voyage of discovery.
5 As a peregrine falcon flying wither she may.
6 Deliberately different. see (Fr) étrange, see (Sp) extranjero, see (Eng) strange.
7 Being unlike the mainstream or cut off from the continent. e.g. John Donne
8 Being a Stranger in a Strange land. e.g. Robert A. Heinlein
9 Not having a seat at the cool-table during dinner.
10 Not a citizen, an alien.
©2018
Me A House Divided
When whatever owns me causes strife, then I vow to let strife depart with whatever owns me, both may leave.
When pride beckons me to follow, I say, “The path is dark.”
Pride answers, “Trust me.” This is my first failing.
I am in want. I flounder in fear. I breathe, “I am content.” Then I am renewed.
“Where is my home? Today, at this moment, my home is here where I am.”
“I am cold. I am hungry. I am alone. I am unwise, and my tongue is dry.”
I seek harmony of mind. This I trust is the foundation of my house un-divided.
©2018
