<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403</id><updated>2009-12-07T21:26:24.262-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One Single Impression</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;i&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/i&gt; is a community of poets writing and sharing haiku and other poetic forms. Each week we will offer up a new prompt that we hope will inspire your writing. We invite participants to share ideas for prompts, too.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Andrée</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08159511912645034019</uri><email>meeyauw@gmail.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>120</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-2779493149829964512</id><published>2009-12-06T00:00:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T00:00:01.223-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lighthouse'/><title type='text'>Prompt 93: Lighthouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/Sw_f8cnkgII/AAAAAAAAAI0/j_7YmHWmaoY/s1600/portland+maine+lighthouse.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5408787907062562946" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/Sw_f8cnkgII/AAAAAAAAAI0/j_7YmHWmaoY/s400/portland+maine+lighthouse.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Geraldine of &lt;strong&gt;My Poetic Path&lt;/strong&gt; brings us this week's prompt, &lt;strong&gt;lighthouse&lt;/strong&gt;. Click &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/farewell-for-a-while-2/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to read her poem. Thank you, Geraldine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://fourwindshaiga.wordpress.com/"&gt;Sandy Lawrence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,102,0)" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=06Dec2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-2779493149829964512?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/2779493149829964512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/12/prompt-93-lighthouse.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/2779493149829964512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/2779493149829964512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/12/prompt-93-lighthouse.html' title='Prompt 93: Lighthouse'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/Sw_f8cnkgII/AAAAAAAAAI0/j_7YmHWmaoY/s72-c/portland+maine+lighthouse.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-6820198978775885877</id><published>2009-11-29T00:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-29T00:00:01.751-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Migration'/><title type='text'>Prompt 92: Migration</title><content type='html'>Gabrielle of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wildgoosescoopsmoon.blogspot.com/"&gt;Wild Goose Scoops Moon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; brings us this week's prompt, &lt;strong&gt;migration&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,102,0)" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=29Nov2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-6820198978775885877?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/6820198978775885877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-92-migration.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/6820198978775885877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/6820198978775885877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-92-migration.html' title='Prompt 92: Migration'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-4328619807446486677</id><published>2009-11-22T00:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T00:00:01.948-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Creative'/><title type='text'>Prompt 91: Creative</title><content type='html'>This week's prompt is &lt;b&gt;creative &lt;/b&gt;from &lt;b&gt;Mindful Mimi&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=22Nov2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-4328619807446486677?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/4328619807446486677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-91-creative.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4328619807446486677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4328619807446486677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-91-creative.html' title='Prompt 91: Creative'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-537475759035905151</id><published>2009-11-15T00:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-15T00:00:01.312-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reincarnation'/><title type='text'>Prompt 90: Reincarnation</title><content type='html'>Thanks to Gautami Tripathy of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com"&gt;Rooted&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;reincarnation&lt;/b&gt;, and for this poem to get us started:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am now the future-&lt;br /&gt;present merged with past&lt;br /&gt;scents of you nurtures&lt;br /&gt;me, I am born again fast&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=15Nov2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-537475759035905151?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/537475759035905151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-90-reincarnation.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/537475759035905151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/537475759035905151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-90-reincarnation.html' title='Prompt 90: Reincarnation'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-8861089250252317096</id><published>2009-11-08T00:00:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-08T00:00:00.442-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Departed'/><title type='text'>Prompt 89: Departed</title><content type='html'>Thanks to Loch Rob of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://sfrobbins.blogspot.com/"&gt;A Small Look Inside&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; for this week's prompt, &lt;strong&gt;departed&lt;/strong&gt;. Here is his poem:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SvSMQgP89eI/AAAAAAAAAIs/i4H69iJhkFw/s1600-h/my+old+chair.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 260px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401096068286707170" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SvSMQgP89eI/AAAAAAAAAIs/i4H69iJhkFw/s400/my+old+chair.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Old Chair&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s a room to the north&lt;br /&gt;Where the snow comes in&lt;br /&gt;The cracks invite the wind openly&lt;br /&gt;As the windows relent to the winter&lt;br /&gt;The panes long ago traveling into warmth&lt;br /&gt;Allowing the room and elements to become as one&lt;br /&gt;With paint chips curling and dropping together&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A dusting knocks at the door, invited&lt;br /&gt;Surrounding my ol’ comfortable chair&lt;br /&gt;As a relic forgotten, in a move long lost&lt;br /&gt;And into the grip of empty, cold abandonment.&lt;br /&gt;Are the depths of this early chill&lt;br /&gt;Already visible in the washed out image of winter?&lt;br /&gt;As a harrow, through the fields I wander&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to the house and bare room entered&lt;br /&gt;From a recollection acquired in childhood&lt;br /&gt;I step over the sill, cautiously walking in&lt;br /&gt;And the moment is captured in a frozen image&lt;br /&gt;Printed for all to see as a sacrifice from the shutter&lt;br /&gt;As my warmth overcomes and recollects&lt;br /&gt;This mid-October memory; back home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo source: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/user/3072419"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,102,0)" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=08Nov2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-8861089250252317096?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/8861089250252317096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-89-departed.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/8861089250252317096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/8861089250252317096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-89-departed.html' title='Prompt 89: Departed'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SvSMQgP89eI/AAAAAAAAAIs/i4H69iJhkFw/s72-c/my+old+chair.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-4806090006251474009</id><published>2009-11-01T00:00:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-11-01T08:45:46.303-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shift in Time'/><title type='text'>Prompt 88: Shift in Time</title><content type='html'>Thanks to Nathalie of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://wordofthedayfreshfresh.blogspot.com/2009/11/shift.html"&gt;Spaced Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;shift in time&lt;/b&gt;. Here are her image and poem:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SupDaI2dGMI/AAAAAAAAAIk/-Ab8gkfQrYE/s1600-h/clock,jpg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398201219688503490" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SupDaI2dGMI/AAAAAAAAAIk/-Ab8gkfQrYE/s400/clock,jpg.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Hours after minutes after seconds&lt;br /&gt;Every single blinking moment&lt;br /&gt;A subtle shift&lt;br /&gt;No more than a sleight of hands&lt;br /&gt;From the clock&lt;br /&gt;Stealing time from under our feet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We turn around&lt;br /&gt;And tomorrow isn't quite&lt;br /&gt;That other day any more&lt;br /&gt;Too busy becoming yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; COLOR: rgb(0,0,153)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(0,102,0)" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=01Nov2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-4806090006251474009?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/4806090006251474009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-88-shift-in-time.html#comment-form' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4806090006251474009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4806090006251474009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/11/prompt-88-shift-in-time.html' title='Prompt 88: Shift in Time'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SupDaI2dGMI/AAAAAAAAAIk/-Ab8gkfQrYE/s72-c/clock,jpg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-1509405656132438903</id><published>2009-10-25T00:00:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T00:00:00.396-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elusive'/><title type='text'>Prompt 87: Elusive</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SsKqhQ6HfqI/AAAAAAAAAIU/XU0pyUeuXRE/s1600-h/2938928-2-solitude.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SsKqhQ6HfqI/AAAAAAAAAIU/XU0pyUeuXRE/s400/2938928-2-solitude.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387055592739667618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thanks to Leo at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://1mind2worlds.blogspot.com/"&gt;Figments of Imagination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, elusive.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To clear mind clutter&lt;br /&gt;I seek with desperation&lt;br /&gt;Some time to myself&lt;br /&gt;THAT ELUSIVE SOLITUDE&lt;br /&gt;Some time to myself&lt;br /&gt;I seek with desperation&lt;br /&gt;To clear mind clutter&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/2938928-2-solitude.jpg"&gt;Photo Credit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=25Oct2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-1509405656132438903?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/1509405656132438903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-87-elusive.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1509405656132438903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1509405656132438903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-87-elusive.html' title='Prompt 87: Elusive'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SsKqhQ6HfqI/AAAAAAAAAIU/XU0pyUeuXRE/s72-c/2938928-2-solitude.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-7500379198953571184</id><published>2009-10-21T22:47:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-21T23:17:29.321-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='awards'/><title type='text'>OSI Is A Top 10 Literature Blog</title><content type='html'>Sandy and I got an e-mail recently that informed us that &lt;a href="http://www.wikio.com/" target="new"&gt;wikio.com&lt;/a&gt; has ranked OSI as a Top 10 Blog in Literature at their site. We were given a badge to put on the sidebar — you can see it on the right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is exciting for all of us who contribute and link to One Single Impression. We are proud, as all of you are proud, to be a part of this cooperative endeavor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Please go to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top/literature#" target="new"&gt;Top Blogs Literature at wikio.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; to see what you have all accomplished!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;What is Wikio?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wikio is an information portal with a news search engine that searches press sites and blogs. With Wikio you can very easily create pages to follow the breaking news that interests you. Our info is continuously updated! Wikio is a participative service: you can publish an article directly on the site or comment on an existing item. You can also vote for an article or a group that captures your interest in order to increase its visibility on the site. Each page offers an RSS feed that allows you to subscribe to receive the information that appears there in the reader of your choice.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have taken some time to compile a couple of simple statistics about OSI for the past year and a half we have been in existence. We are growing! It is a slow and steady growth. &lt;a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AobKUvhxiKh2dExjLWlJX2pZbWJteXJUWFZBTXlTU3c&amp;amp;hl=en" target="new"&gt;You can see the data here at Google docs&lt;/a&gt;. There are three sheets to the spreadsheet: the participation data, the chart that graphically shows our growth and the measures of central tendency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From March 2008 to the end of December 2008 we averaged 43 poets who participated weekly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From January 2009 to the present we are now averaging 52 poets weekly.&lt;br /&gt;That is 21% increase! I guess we are all doing a lot of stuff right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a chart demonstrating our growth —&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center?&gt;&lt;img style="width: 639px; height: 480px;" src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/oimg?key=0AobKUvhxiKh2dExjLWlJX2pZbWJteXJUWFZBTXlTU3c&amp;amp;oid=2&amp;amp;v=1256180223945" target="new" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thank everyone of you for your participation and congratulate all of you for your award!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/center?&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;♥&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;center?&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Andree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center?&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-7500379198953571184?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/7500379198953571184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/os-is-top-10-literature-blog.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/7500379198953571184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/7500379198953571184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/os-is-top-10-literature-blog.html' title='OSI Is A Top 10 Literature Blog'/><author><name>Andrée</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08159511912645034019</uri><email>meeyauw@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17784532203879088192'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-4481390333375030289</id><published>2009-10-18T00:00:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T00:00:02.177-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conquer'/><title type='text'>Prompt 86: Conquer</title><content type='html'>Thanks to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nehasahi.blogspot.com/2009/08/conquer-anger.html"&gt;Tea Leaves 'n' Honey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, who offers this week's prompt, conquer.&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=18Oct2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-4481390333375030289?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/4481390333375030289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-86-conquer.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4481390333375030289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4481390333375030289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-86-conquer.html' title='Prompt 86: Conquer'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-2079518215569863075</id><published>2009-10-11T00:00:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T10:57:39.541-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Talisman'/><title type='text'>Prompt 85: Talisman</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanwoodswalker/2799260877/" target="new"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2799260877_6b76556665.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thanks to Joseph Harker of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://namingconstellations.wordpress.com/" target="new"&gt;Naming Constellations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;talisman&lt;/b&gt;. Here is his poem:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Odds and Ends&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are making a religion out of Small Things,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;weaving significance from yarn and whiskers and wire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These inkstains are our sacred books, telling stories&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of the first kiss, of cat's eye marbles and baby teeth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our pockets hold cowrie shells and birthday candles,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;feathers to burn like incense for a mackerel sky.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are finding the religion in Small Things,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the luck in a penny from the year you were born,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the mystery in a drop of mercury sitting sly on the table,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the sanctity of a dandelion, untouched and unblown.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our amulets are rhinestones and peach pits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our reliquaries are hollows in the trees that gather water.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are trading old religion for Small Things,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for they are everywhere and just as important, too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They hold us together like a chain of paperclips,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and our prayers have dwindled into punctuation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank us for the beauty in tea leaves and eyelids;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;bury us in graves that have been measured in inches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Photo used with permission © &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/urbanwoodswalker/" target="new"&gt;M. A. Enriquez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;view the Flickr photostream at &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanwoodswalker/" target="new"&gt;urbanwoodswalker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=11Oct2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-2079518215569863075?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/2079518215569863075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-85-talisman.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/2079518215569863075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/2079518215569863075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-85-talisman.html' title='Prompt 85: Talisman'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-4148395015004548063</id><published>2009-10-04T00:00:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-04T00:00:03.629-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Descent'/><title type='text'>Prompt 84: Descent</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SsPr5XiK_1I/AAAAAAAAAIc/bYh7czq3ck0/s1600-h/september09+045SM.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SsPr5XiK_1I/AAAAAAAAAIc/bYh7czq3ck0/s400/september09+045SM.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387408950067658578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Sue of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://sunflowerroots.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sunflower Roots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;descent&lt;/b&gt;. Here are her beautiful poem and photo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Autumn=Fall=Descent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;angle of sun&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;creeps slowly towards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the horizon,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;afternoons shorten,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;shadows lengthen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;cross lawns,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;first one leaf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then another&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;flutter gently,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;spiraling earthward,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;evening chill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;comes early,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as earth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;prepares&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its descent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to winter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=04Oct2009&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-4148395015004548063?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/4148395015004548063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-84-descent.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4148395015004548063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4148395015004548063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/10/prompt-84-descent.html' title='Prompt 84: Descent'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SsPr5XiK_1I/AAAAAAAAAIc/bYh7czq3ck0/s72-c/september09+045SM.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-5276037148405337801</id><published>2009-09-27T00:00:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T00:00:00.381-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Colors'/><title type='text'>Prompt 83: Colors</title><content type='html'>Floreta of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://floretacui.blogspot.com/"&gt;Solitary Panda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; brings us this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;colors&lt;/b&gt;. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=27Sep2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-5276037148405337801?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/5276037148405337801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-83-colors.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/5276037148405337801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/5276037148405337801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-83-colors.html' title='Prompt 83: Colors'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-637806193007274484</id><published>2009-09-20T00:00:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T00:00:00.200-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fog'/><title type='text'>Prompt 82: Fog</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/Sq_2345musI/AAAAAAAAAIM/s8_DVAhhmy8/s1600-h/2210598414_73862a2e84_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/Sq_2345musI/AAAAAAAAAIM/s8_DVAhhmy8/s400/2210598414_73862a2e84_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381791519758269122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Thanks to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://fledglingpoet.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sweetest in the Gale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, fog. Thanks, also, for the narrative, poem, and image. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This week’s fog prompt reminded me of something hanging heavily in my heart every September. Cold weather will be here soon, and along with that, the inevitable winter blues that I struggle with every year. Fall is always bittersweet for me because I love its crisp weather and beautiful foliage. But what comes after is something I dread: the cold, bleak winter. As hard as I try, the grayness always makes its way into my spirit, enveloping me and clinging while I sag from its weight. And every year, I just hang on helplessly and wait for April. Thank God, spring always comes! It’s why spring is my favorite season of the year…I feel reborn and hopeful, just like every budding tree and flower.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fog settles in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seeping into low places&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Filling depressions&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Click &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjjohn/2210598414/sizes/s/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; for photo credit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=20Sep2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-637806193007274484?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/637806193007274484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-82-fog.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/637806193007274484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/637806193007274484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-82-fog.html' title='Prompt 82: Fog'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/Sq_2345musI/AAAAAAAAAIM/s8_DVAhhmy8/s72-c/2210598414_73862a2e84_m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-103912353185396723</id><published>2009-09-13T00:00:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-13T00:00:01.761-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thirst'/><title type='text'>Prompt 81: Thirst</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SqxRKJglgtI/AAAAAAAAAIE/mGYQBPM98vQ/s1600-h/thirst.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SqxRKJglgtI/AAAAAAAAAIE/mGYQBPM98vQ/s400/thirst.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380764889594036946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://mybellavia.blogspot.com/"&gt;My Bellavia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; brings us this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;thirst&lt;/b&gt;. Thanks, Janice, for this, and thanks for the image and poem:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;there's no moon, no stars &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;clouds invade such sultry nights &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;prayer is a light&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;crickets sing softly &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;metronomes of time are heard &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;street lights glow in heat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;parched lives stare upward &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;flickered dreams do fade &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;somewhere it's raining&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=13Sep2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-103912353185396723?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/103912353185396723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-81-thirst.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/103912353185396723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/103912353185396723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-81-thirst.html' title='Prompt 81: Thirst'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SqxRKJglgtI/AAAAAAAAAIE/mGYQBPM98vQ/s72-c/thirst.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-3276611224271185116</id><published>2009-09-10T21:02:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T22:32:56.134-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prompts'/><title type='text'>New Prompts for the Future</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt; 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Google has yet to implement this capability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;♥&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Thank you all so much!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-3276611224271185116?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/3276611224271185116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-prompts-for-future.html#comment-form' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/3276611224271185116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/3276611224271185116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-prompts-for-future.html' title='New Prompts for the Future'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-3218507240862186040</id><published>2009-09-06T00:00:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-06T00:00:00.382-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romance'/><title type='text'>Prompt 80: Romance</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/So5_yWDmqRI/AAAAAAAAAAs/aDoqY-K7vSw/s1600-h/a+single+red+rose.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/So5_yWDmqRI/AAAAAAAAAAs/aDoqY-K7vSw/s400/a+single+red+rose.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372371908390463762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thanks to Geraldine of &lt;b&gt;My Poetic Path&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, romance. Please visit Geraldine's blog &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/falling-in-love/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to read her contribution. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Click &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountainwoman_skydancer/1493530724/sizes/m/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; for photo source&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=06Sep2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-3218507240862186040?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/3218507240862186040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-80-romance.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/3218507240862186040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/3218507240862186040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/09/prompt-80-romance.html' title='Prompt 80: Romance'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/So5_yWDmqRI/AAAAAAAAAAs/aDoqY-K7vSw/s72-c/a+single+red+rose.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-4553959922503392298</id><published>2009-08-30T00:00:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-30T00:00:00.343-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blue'/><title type='text'>Prompt 79: Blue</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SpkZq_fOSxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/PBkHRZwwOpg/s1600-h/statuehandbird-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SpkZq_fOSxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/PBkHRZwwOpg/s400/statuehandbird-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375355856630991634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://fledglingpoet.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sweetest in the Gale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;blue&lt;/b&gt;. Here is her poem to get us started:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCRIBBLED WINGS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the shell of me dies&lt;br /&gt;I’ll exhale my spirit&lt;br /&gt;And float to the sky&lt;br /&gt;Wandering in heaven&lt;br /&gt;Scrawling my poems&lt;br /&gt;In iridescent blues&lt;br /&gt;Onto the wings of angels&lt;br /&gt;While they sing in a choir&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when the angels return&lt;br /&gt;To earth, my musings&lt;br /&gt;Will travel with them&lt;br /&gt;Coating their delicate wings&lt;br /&gt;Like soul glitter&lt;br /&gt;Scattering loose as they fly&lt;br /&gt;Settling onto earthly things&lt;br /&gt;And clinging there for life&lt;br /&gt;A way for me to endure&lt;br /&gt;In everlasting blues&lt;br /&gt;Without having to&lt;br /&gt;Say goodbye&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My blues will dust&lt;br /&gt;The steely surface&lt;br /&gt;Of a statue in a garden&lt;br /&gt;Seeping through its layers&lt;br /&gt;To its secretly soft insides&lt;br /&gt;Or glisten on a spider web&lt;br /&gt;My tangled orb of emotions&lt;br /&gt;In the dewy, indigo light&lt;br /&gt;They’ll smudge the moon&lt;br /&gt;With violet shadows&lt;br /&gt;Hanging ripe and heavy&lt;br /&gt;In a midnight sky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My reveries will linger on&lt;br /&gt;In this earthly world I love&lt;br /&gt;As a tinge of cobalt hues&lt;br /&gt;Wherever the visiting angels&lt;br /&gt;With scribbled wings fly.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Photo Credit: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r71/sherbran/blog%20pics%202/?action=view&amp;amp;current=statuehandbird-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Darco TT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=30Aug2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-4553959922503392298?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/4553959922503392298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-79-blue.html#comment-form' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4553959922503392298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4553959922503392298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-79-blue.html' title='Prompt 79: Blue'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QTD_icBCTeE/SpkZq_fOSxI/AAAAAAAAAA0/PBkHRZwwOpg/s72-c/statuehandbird-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-1410885654724390270</id><published>2009-08-23T00:00:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-23T00:00:01.766-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Allow'/><title type='text'>Prompt 78: Allow</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://nehasahi.blogspot.com/"&gt;Tea Leaves 'n' Honey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; brings us the prompt &lt;b&gt;allow &lt;/b&gt;this week and shares with us this wonderfu poem.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rain Pebble was the Shamanic name suggested for me. I connected with it perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allow&lt;br /&gt;A pebble in the rain,&lt;br /&gt;I allow myself&lt;br /&gt;To just be&lt;br /&gt;Joyous,&lt;br /&gt;Purposeless&lt;br /&gt;And completely ecstatic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(How perfect to just allow ourselves to be.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=23Aug2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-1410885654724390270?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/1410885654724390270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-78-allow.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1410885654724390270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1410885654724390270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-78-allow.html' title='Prompt 78: Allow'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-3617358916112783554</id><published>2009-08-17T10:53:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-17T10:57:40.603-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prompts'/><title type='text'>Call for Prompts</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It's time again to grow our list of weekly poetry prompts at One Single Impression. All who participate or who plan to participate in this meme are welcome to suggest a prompt. The list in the sidebar will show you the prompts we've done so far. If you make a suggestion, use the comment form, and be sure to include the name of your blog and a link to your home page. After we create the new list, we'll ask you to send a poem and/or image to us by the Friday before your prompt will run, so we can showcase your work on One Single Impression.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-3617358916112783554?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/3617358916112783554/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/call-for-prompts.html#comment-form' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/3617358916112783554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/3617358916112783554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/call-for-prompts.html' title='Call for Prompts'/><author><name>SandyCarlson</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10752798823532580733</uri><email>writinginfaith@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10073612746289692858'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-1268103168379208601</id><published>2009-08-16T00:00:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T00:00:02.585-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Copse'/><title type='text'>Prompt 77: Copse</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://kitehorse.blogspot.com"&gt;Kitehorse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; brings us this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;copse&lt;/b&gt;. Thanks, Kitehorse!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=16Aug2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-1268103168379208601?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/1268103168379208601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-77-copse.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1268103168379208601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1268103168379208601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-77-copse.html' title='Prompt 77: Copse'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-5688943659442659443</id><published>2009-08-09T00:00:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-09T00:00:01.881-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ocean'/><title type='text'>Prompt 76: Ocean</title><content type='html'>Thanks to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://fledglingpoet.blogspot.com"&gt;Sweetest in the Gale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (formerly Fledling Poet) for this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;ocean&lt;/b&gt;, and for the poem and image below that get us started this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r71/sherbran/blog%20pics%202/?action=view&amp;amp;current=mermaiddulac-1.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r71/sherbran/blog%20pics%202/mermaiddulac-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MERMAID&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There lies an ocean inside my chest&lt;br /&gt;A cosmic rolling of the tides&lt;br /&gt;Each swell of breath a rhythmic crest&lt;br /&gt;And in this place a mermaid presides&lt;br /&gt;She skims atop my wrecks and treasures&lt;br /&gt;Where gold coins wink and beckon&lt;br /&gt;And grains of wisdom nestle&lt;br /&gt;In oystered pearls that glisten&lt;br /&gt;Where heartaches fuse to coral&lt;br /&gt;Stinging plankton with their grief&lt;br /&gt;While wild waves curl with churning thoughts&lt;br /&gt;Then lap on shimmering sands to sleep&lt;br /&gt;And the stars beam down&lt;br /&gt;At the commotion, and seagulls&lt;br /&gt;Hover with salt-kissed wings&lt;br /&gt;Swooping with a listening ear&lt;br /&gt;To hear her raw notes as she sings&lt;br /&gt;She’s tossed, and rocked, and cradled&lt;br /&gt;And tumbled endlessly&lt;br /&gt;My precarious, sensitive mermaid&lt;br /&gt;In the depths of my vast blue sea.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Click &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r71/sherbran/blog%20pics%202/?action=view&amp;amp;current=mermaiddulac-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; for photo credit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=09Aug2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-5688943659442659443?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/5688943659442659443/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-76-ocean.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/5688943659442659443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/5688943659442659443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-76-ocean.html' title='Prompt 76: Ocean'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-7911130893618459557</id><published>2009-08-02T00:00:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-06T09:46:24.834-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Windows'/><title type='text'>Prompt 75: Windows</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/SnR3JUxJ7HI/AAAAAAAAJJ0/B0quhU1Gx3E/s1600-h/spider-web-small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 100px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/SnR3JUxJ7HI/AAAAAAAAJJ0/B0quhU1Gx3E/s400/spider-web-small.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365044058182511730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Christine of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://quietpaths.com/"&gt;Quiet Path&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;s brings us this week's prompt, &lt;b&gt;windows&lt;/b&gt;. Thanks Christine, for the prompt, the poem by Mary Oliver, and the wonderful photograph. (Please visit her blog for a larger image of this magificent photo.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sleeping In The Forest &lt;div&gt;by Mary Oliver&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I thought the earth remembered me,&lt;br /&gt;she took me back so tenderly,&lt;br /&gt;arranging her dark skirts, her pockets&lt;br /&gt;full of lichens and seeds.&lt;br /&gt;I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,&lt;br /&gt;nothing between me and the white fire of the stars&lt;br /&gt;but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths&lt;br /&gt;among the branches of the perfect trees.&lt;br /&gt;All night I heard the small kingdoms&lt;br /&gt;breathing around me, the insects,&lt;br /&gt;and the birds who do their work in the darkness.&lt;br /&gt;All night I rose and fell, as if in water,&lt;br /&gt;grappling with a luminous doom. By morning&lt;br /&gt;I had vanished at least a dozen times&lt;br /&gt;into something better.&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=02Aug2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-7911130893618459557?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/7911130893618459557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-75-windows.html#comment-form' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/7911130893618459557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/7911130893618459557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/08/prompt-75-windows.html' title='Prompt 75: Windows'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/SnR3JUxJ7HI/AAAAAAAAJJ0/B0quhU1Gx3E/s72-c/spider-web-small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-1253577474131132238</id><published>2009-07-28T11:00:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-28T11:16:03.071-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comment moderation'/><title type='text'>Comment Moderation</title><content type='html'>Good morning!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am writing to tell you that I have turned on comment moderation but &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; for comments that are 8+ days older than the post. We have been spammed lately . . . and all the junk has been on comments that are way older than one week. This has happened on my own blogs and I found that turning on comment moderation for older posts has stopped it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This should not be too inconvenient for us. Of course, I will approve any valid comment (it is so easy to tell the difference!) and I receive notification instantly. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I hope you are all having a wonderful summer day without rain or troubles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Love, A&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-1253577474131132238?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/1253577474131132238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/07/comment-moderation.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1253577474131132238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/1253577474131132238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/07/comment-moderation.html' title='Comment Moderation'/><author><name>Andrée</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08159511912645034019</uri><email>meeyauw@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17784532203879088192'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-4931097146980913245</id><published>2009-07-26T00:00:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-26T00:00:02.330-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fragrance'/><title type='text'>Prompt 74: Fragrance</title><content type='html'>Thanks to Geraldine of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/"&gt;My Poetic Path&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for this week's prompt, fragrance. Please visit her blog &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/hearth-and-home-grandmas-apple-pie/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for her poetic offering for this week. Thanks, also, for the photo, Gearldine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/Sl8TGkyMHhI/AAAAAAAAJJM/A1-GHsTI2wM/s1600-h/grandmas-pie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/Sl8TGkyMHhI/AAAAAAAAJJM/A1-GHsTI2wM/s400/grandmas-pie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359023085268508178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Photo: &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/faerye/3394679580/"&gt;Source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;How to Participate in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post your poetry on your blog. This does not need to be today. You can post any time during the week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Come here and enter your link into Mr. Linky. Other participants can easily find you by clicking your name in Mr. Linky.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enjoy the beautiful poems of the other bloggers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is a new Mr. Linky each week so you always have to sign up on the current one. Please do not sign your name on Mr. Linky unless you are participating in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Single Impression&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. Linky will remain here forever. A list of past themes is on the sidebar. You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=26Jul2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-4931097146980913245?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/4931097146980913245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/07/prompt-74-fragrance.html#comment-form' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4931097146980913245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4931097146980913245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/07/prompt-74-fragrance.html' title='Prompt 74: Fragrance'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/Sl8TGkyMHhI/AAAAAAAAJJM/A1-GHsTI2wM/s72-c/grandmas-pie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501829645946942403.post-4297429736686143989</id><published>2009-07-19T00:00:00.010-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T21:41:03.153-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Inner Voice'/><title type='text'>Prompt 73: Inner Voice</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/SmLunHntdRI/AAAAAAAAJJc/T8R3K9MGmRk/s1600-h/secret+water.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/SmLunHntdRI/AAAAAAAAJJc/T8R3K9MGmRk/s400/secret+water.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360108862352225554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christine of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://quietpaths.com/"&gt;Quiet Paths&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; shares this section of the Pablo Neruda poem "&lt;a href="http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Balcony/8201/poem/waterfall.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ode to a Waterfall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" to acccompany this week's prompt, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;inner voice&lt;/span&gt;. Thanks, Christine! And thanks for the beautiful photo above.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What I have given you,&lt;br /&gt;will never be a burden,&lt;br /&gt;because&lt;br /&gt;what I gave you&lt;br /&gt;was always yours,&lt;br /&gt;the flower or the wood,&lt;br /&gt;the word or walls,&lt;br /&gt;food of fleeting&lt;br /&gt;love, resting or burning&lt;br /&gt;in our hands.&lt;br /&gt;But all&lt;br /&gt;I gave you,&lt;br /&gt;all I give you,&lt;br /&gt;all I extend to you,&lt;br /&gt;will contain this secret&lt;br /&gt;voice&lt;br /&gt;of&lt;br /&gt;water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:webdings;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;+ + + + + + + +&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MR. 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You can check back at any time for information on a past theme. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://www2.blenza.com/linkies/easylink.php?owner=onesingleimpression&amp;amp;postid=19Jul2009a&amp;amp;meme=538"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7501829645946942403-4297429736686143989?l=onesingleimpression.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/feeds/4297429736686143989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/07/prompt-73-inner-voice.html#comment-form' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4297429736686143989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7501829645946942403/posts/default/4297429736686143989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onesingleimpression.blogspot.com/2009/07/prompt-73-inner-voice.html' title='Prompt 73: Inner Voice'/><author><name>OSI</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11405408495482565037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='01709972675815094374'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DVgKhbHyBkI/SmLunHntdRI/AAAAAAAAJJc/T8R3K9MGmRk/s72-c/secret+water.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>20</thr:total></entry></feed>