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@essayfaire Very nice!

My husband and I went out to see the Northern Lights in a county park north of Pittsburgh.  Basically I saw columns coming up from the northern horizon (we were in the parking lot of a rental building in the park that's on the top of a hill), but they weren't all that visible (just paler than the rest of the night sky).  My husband could see some green at the bases of the columns but I didn't.  

Interestingly enough, the photo he took got more of the chroma than what *either* of us could see.  But still NOT remotely like the ones I saw growing up one time years ago from our back porch (about 50 miles north of NYC) -- those were huge long red paintbrush streaks across the sky.

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Our dear Amberlea

proclaimed no love for turquoise.

Too pale for Vegas?

 

 

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I started a haiku thread where we had to write them out with our fountain pens. You can find that here, if interested. 

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1 minute ago, Misfit said:

I started a haiku thread where we had to write them out with our fountain pens. You can find that here, if interested. 

That also sounds fun. My painful banged up hands means my handwriting is atrocious. I'll try to post one, though. 

 

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In the hospital 

I await Mom’s surgery

the lighting is great 

 

(Because I took a photo of a pen in the surgery prep room.)

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Here's one I wrote yesterday as a joke. It was for a prompt on a FB poetry group. We had to start the poem with "If I had my time over again."

 

 

If I Had My Time Over Again 

 

If I had my time over again

I wouldn't eat that take out.

My stomach rumbled in the den

And diarrhea I had no doubt.

I ran quickly to the toilet.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it.

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On 5/22/2024 at 6:28 AM, Doc Dan said:

Here's one I wrote yesterday as a joke. It was for a prompt on a FB poetry group. We had to start the poem with "If I had my time over again."

 

 

If I Had My Time Over Again 

 

If I had my time over again

I wouldn't eat that take out.

My stomach rumbled in the den

And diarrhea I had no doubt.

I ran quickly to the toilet.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it.

When I read 'If I had my time over again', the first line... I did NOT expect that. This reminds me vaguely of Ogden Nash!

Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before.

 

-11th Doctor, somewhat coated in soot.

 

My style of writing varies greatly with mood. I will not sound the same across posts and comments- I am the same person though!

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14 hours ago, The Devil Rabbit said:

When I read 'If I had my time over again', the first line... I did NOT expect that. This reminds me vaguely of Ogden Nash!

Hahaha! I hope you enjoyed it. The humor and the very unexpectedness is why I wrote it.

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On 7/18/2024 at 10:13 AM, Doc Dan said:

Hahaha! I hope you enjoyed it. The humor and the very unexpectedness is why I wrote it.

I did indeed enjoy it!

Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before.

 

-11th Doctor, somewhat coated in soot.

 

My style of writing varies greatly with mood. I will not sound the same across posts and comments- I am the same person though!

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I just saw your Northern Lights poem @essayfaire  and it's brilliant. 

 

 

( See what I did there? LOL )

Yes, thank you! 😊  I had good inspiration.

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Failing to get a grip 😬IMG_20250311_1704032.thumb.jpg.a9e96f5b86ca20d345d07bf01a7b08cb.jpg

 

Pen: Parker 45, M nib.

Ink: Diamine Ultra Green.

Paper: Clairefontaine Triomphe A5

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8 hours ago, Ted Nashe said:

Failing to get a grip 😬IMG_20250311_1704032.thumb.jpg.a9e96f5b86ca20d345d07bf01a7b08cb.jpg

 

Pen: Parker 45, M nib.

Ink: Diamine Ultra Green.

Paper: Clairefontaine Triomphe A5

Hahahaha! :)) a good one!:lol:

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Failing to get a grip 😬IMG_20250311_1704032.thumb.jpg.a9e96f5b86ca20d345d07bf01a7b08cb.jpg

 

Pen: Parker 45, M nib.

Ink: Diamine Ultra Green.

Paper: Clairefontaine Triomphe A5

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Pen: Parker 45, medium nib.

Ink: Diamine Ultra Green.

Paper: Basildon Bond.

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Pen: Parker 45, medium nib.

Ink: Diamine Ultra Green.

Paper: Basildon Bond.

I love it! It is rhymed and has regular meter of five feet per line. I love the topic too, and it is sad to see our beloved dogs slow down, but the poem is about the writer, perhaps?

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I had COMPLETELY forgotten about this thread.... :headsmack:

Thanks to everyone for resurrecting it!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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8 hours ago, Doc Dan said:

I love it! It is rhymed and has regular meter of five feet per line. I love the topic too, and it is sad to see our beloved dogs slow down, but the poem is about the writer, perhaps?

 

Ha! Thanks for the kind words, Doc. Muchly appreciated.👍 The form is a décima: ten lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming abbaaccddc. It's a popular form in S. America and Spain, apparently, but not so much anywhere else. 

 

Yes, I think it's fair to say that the poem is about me as well as Poppy. Me old bones are beginning to creak a fair bit now – and as for me knees ... 🙃

 

Best wishes, and cheers for starting this Poetry Portfolio thread👍

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