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My entry doesn't count, but thought I'd share a newsworthy link and an idea I had:
scary-creatures-are-hiding-inside-our-washing-machines
wonder no more
where your socks go...
they flee in terror
7/17/2014
Deadline soon !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Night Horror
Walking down the gloomy alley
Puddles reflecting streetlight neon
I hear pounding footfalls behind
Turn and see only my shadow
Arms outstretched
Ready to strangle
YesNo - A tight abcabc structure with a hint of parallelism in L4 and L6; with an interesting take on the desire/ability to travel back in time.
Memorable line(s): “Do simple things before those ghosts attack:”
cacian - I enjoyed your take on the horror genre... I don't entirely get it either; but have been thrilled enough on occasion to appreciate good horror for its art.
Memorable lines: “silence of the lamb/steady./zombie trash sped.”
Pendragon - An homage to horror flix!
Memorable line(s): “Where It Awaits”
Dark Muse – This is how I felt after reading “Alien”; I slept with the lights on for days... and then seeing the movie didn't help much.
Memorable line(s): “noises in the dark,/nightmare and reality/lose distinction,”
Jaked – Haiku: implied brevity 5/7/5 (and other variations); generally not titled (which I gleefully ignore). Found some interesting anagrams embedded in the haiku: ref: http://anagram-solver.net/%20Horror%...d?partial=true: "Remembrance of a Death" Series , When Dinosaurs Roamed America , Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor , The End of Modern-day Gamorrah , America Through Women's Eyes , Dreams (The Cranberries song) , Another Body Murdered (song) , Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn , Ordered binary decision diagram , Friderichsen-Waterhouse syndrome , Dame Edna's Neighourhood Watch … c~r~e~e~p~y
MystyrMystyry – Your ending lines a nice turn - within a turn.
Memorable line(s): Turn and see only my shadow/Arms outstretched/Ready to strangle
Thanx to all who participated...
A tough call to make... and the winner is: YesNo !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Congrats, YesNo!
indeed thank you tailor STATELY and congratulations YesNo!!!
Congrats, YesNo!
Interesting thought to look for anagrams... several of those would be chillingly perfect "titles" for the piece!
Thanks, tailor STATELY! And thanks Jaked, cacian and Pendragon!
The next theme for the minimalist contest will be "sunsets".
Deadline: August 15th
Golden Hour
Ravishing red
Ostentatious orange
Sizzling saffron
Pale pink
Descending daylight.
Thankyou Taylor, and congratulations YesNo!
The Happening
Beyond the hills
The sun drops
Like a new penny
Into a slot machine
The scattered clouds
Light up
Scarlet, Indigo, Gold
Green flash!
Jackpot
sunsets
your memory
makes darkness
bearable
Gold and purple
Fit for a king
Scarlet cloth
Fit for a prince
~~o~~~~ sunsets
daily tie-dyed
pastel skies
all too soon
dematerialize
mountains, vales
and prairies fade;
glaciers chill -
deserts defied
oceans drink
in exultation;
the sun retreats
in exclamation ¡
7/29/2014
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dedicated to pk vaille on her birthday
happy birthday sis !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY!
tailor STATELY thank you for the lovely feedback :)
sunset
runs red
above the clouds
spreads
yellow until
it is said
to turn
river
beds stead
shimmers above water
fled
to catch the med
as it sped.
life tournesol preds.
Before Turner
.
.
.
After Turner
Tonight, I wonder if that blush-
coloured swirl in the deepening bowl of sky
is Turner washing a sable hair brush
or Macbeth scrubbing clean ambition's dye.