While intensely working on this week’s poem, pushing about my little virtual magnets, my fingers stumbled across the key board and…
doh!
a fresh new set of words appeared on the screen with no way to get back the old words. This may explain in part the tone of this week’s entry on my part.
I would like to take a moment to note that MPSC’s only true prompt is that one try to have some fun with those magnet words. At the same time, you’re more than welcome to riff off in some form or fashion what I have put out for the particular week.
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Thank you for stopping by and welcome to October!
Wow, so good, not sure how you manage.
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i have a lot time on my hands 🙂
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Wow! It turned out great. 🙂
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thanks…a deadline can sometimes be a good fuel 😉
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Yes it can be. 🙂
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That has happened to me, too. Sometimes the oracle gives and sometimes she takes it all back. 🙂
Maybe because she knows something better is coming–great poem. And so it goes. 🙂
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Ca Sera Sera [as sung by Pink Martini] seems to be a theme song of the muses.
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Yes, definitely the Pink Martini version. 🙂
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Here’s one that the oracle sent no problem this morning
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/salt-sails-of-morning/
This is one I had to end up writing free hand because she refused to cough up the words I had in mind.
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/this-time/
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Here’s mine: https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/wake-listen-magnetic-poetry/
🙂
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I’ve just lost my first magnet poem ever after my laptop closed due to overheating. :p My first word was chocolate. It was beautiful. 😦
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but my second is here: http://play.magneticpoetry.com/poem/Mustache/kit/40316/?h=7a592f76e5633107edd11112328b25a5
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the words were burning up the screen
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Love your poem this week! Here’s mine! 😊
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/magnetic-poetry-saturday-1-october-2016/
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Very cool. 🙂
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“he is only breath / a decaying desire / which lingers in time” — perfect. Perfect!
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thank you much 🙂
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and so it goes…
Mine goes here
http://wordsandfeathers.com/2016/10/01/lunar-adventures-20161001/
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and so it is
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Isn’t it “Que Sera, Sera” (Spanish) and why do I think of Doris Day?! Anyway, fun to play…and this time I didn’t click for any new words 🙂 https://madhatterpoetry.com/2016/10/01/magnetic-poet/
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Doris Day was the first to popularize the song in the US i believe. Okay, I just looked this up and learned (thru wikipedia) the song was introduced in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) starring Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles. “Que Sera, Sera” is Spanish. Yet The saying has no history in Spain, Italy, or France, and in fact is ungrammatical in all three of these Romance languages.It is composed of Spanish or Italian words superimposed on English syntax. It was evidently formed by a word-for-word mistranslation of English “What will be will be”, merging the free relative pronoun what (= “that which”) with the interrogative what? The song writing team of Livingston and Evans had some knowledge of Spanish, but were not fluent apparently.
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Thanks for sharing!
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I came across “and so it goes” in a R. Brautigan poem before K. Vonnegut took it as his tag line. Same context in the poem as K. Vonnegut used for all those years. Maybe it was subliminal, or just monkeys typing, or perhaps the genius of K. Vonnegut realized it was the coda for the entire human race. Or maybe I’m totally full of shit. In our world, we will never know.
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A brilliant play (that I am sure Vonnegut would enjoy) is “Words Words Words” by David Ives from his collection of six one-act comedies “All in the Timing”. The play depicts the conversation of three chimpanzees named Kafka, Milton and Swift (Kafka is a girl chimpanzee for the record), who have been put into a room with three type writers (and a tire swing) under the notion that eventually publish Hamlet. As Milton states, maybe hitting the nail on the head with all of us writer scribbling away: “Have you got something better to do in this cage. The sooner we produce the goddamn thing, the sooner we get out.”
Speaking of subliminal…in high school, I consumed everything he wrote…assimilating his his warped philosophy (which might explain a lot). I don’t remember him using the “so it goes” tagline, but my memory is shaky at best, and there’s probably a good chance “so it goes” has always floated around the periphery of my thinking because of Vonnegut.
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Dirt and sky… the ultimate destination.
Here’s mine:
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/behold/
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I posted here on Saturday but Akismet ate the comment and the pingback. Could be in your spam folder?
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as a matter of fact it is.
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They do this regularly now. I send Akismet a letter, they reply that they’re ever so sorry and could I give them some more details, and miraculously it stops. This is really getting up my nose.
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…it would seem that there is a bit of complacency on the other side because they know there are few options for the disgruntled.
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I did toy with the idea of disabling Akismet, then I read some of the spam…
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As Monty Python would say: “spam, oh glorious spam!”
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