Writing Club Week 21

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[Irishgirl]

Writing Club Week 21The rules are the same - ten minutes, no stopping, no editing, just write what comes to mind.

As usual the first one to respond to this week's thread sets the topic.



Join in, write, have fun   

The previous Writing Club entries are here:

Week 20 http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,7079.0.html -- Hope

Week 19 http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,7005.0.html -- The things kids do to drive you nuts...

Week 18 http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6940.0.html -- Ann Strongheart
 
Week 17 http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6757.0.html -- Rollercoasters

Week 16 http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6637.0.html -- Volcanoes

Week 15 http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6592.0.html -- Thought

Week 14: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6542.0.html -- Shyness

Week 13: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6472.0.html -- Ends

Week 12: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6409.0.html -- Unexpected Weather

Week 11: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6335.0.html -- Nature

Week 10: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6255.0.html  (BEST EVAR!!) -- Fill In The Blank

Week 9: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,6052.0.html -- Sports

Week 8: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,5867.0.html -- Trust

Week 7: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,5724.0.html -- Martin Luther King

Week 6: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,5325.0.html -- Open Doors

Week 5: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,5195.0.html -- Mind's Eye

Week 4: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,5108.0.html -- Slinky

Week 3: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,5022.0.html -- Shoes

Week 2: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,4809.0.html -- Where The Wild Things Aren't

Week 1: http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,4675.0.html -- Dust Bunny

[the problem child]

Things that rhyme with "Spring". 

[Irishgirl]

Thank you the Problem Child --- things that rhyme with "spring"it is then! Start writing Mudpuppies... 

[Quince]

Springtime for Alaska?


Would but that it were all but a fling
Word salad strewn about like RCN bling
But it's Alaska she's despoiling
With scandals still uncoiling
Can't you just unload her--Ba-da-bing?

[0whole1]

What to do when there are no strings attached

I heard tell a little bit ago that some idiot state governor or another refused federal money because of some sort of bureaucratic "strings attached," and then a little bit later found out that there weren't any.  Strings that is.  Man, how embarrassing was that? I mean, either you're the sorta S.O.B. that doesn't know the difference between a lie and the truth, or you're dumb, or incompetent, or all three.

And then begins the song and dance about "what I meant was."  "What I meant was" my a**.  What "what I meant was" means is "you caught me, but y'all like a good story, so here goes."  If the story's good enough, they'll keep you on -- unless it involves some sorta wide-stance toe-tappin' in a men's room stall. Politics, football, chariot races -- nothing much has changed: the case of Us v Them, and drinking, and fistfights, and an excuse to get out of the house.

Strings.  I think what it is, is that Pinnochio got ahead of himself and tried to blue fairy his own *** before he was ready.  If only there *were* some strings, then somebody else could be holding them, telling Pinnochio how to dance.  As it is, the puppet tried cutting them himself, and the heap of sticks on the floor's calling itself a real little boy when in fact it's just a heap of sticks on the floor.

Funny-funny-funny.  You know the bucks the dumbbell refused? Slotted for education. 

Yeah, just can't make some stuff up.

Dance, puppet, dance.

[0whole1]

Springtime for Alaska?

And Germany?

[Quince]

Owhole1......surely Deutschland is calling our names! I'm so glad someone noticed.

(And I'm marching to a faster pace, but it's probably just the caffeine.)

[LettersFromEurope]

things rhyming with spring,

bring, ming, kerbling.

my thoughts run on empty

rather than spring

sorry about that

just Frühlingsmüdigkeit (I hope)           

(Spring Tiredness - instead of waking up in spring, you finally give in to all the exhaustion you accumulated during winter, sort of)

[Ripley in CT]

Sing

It's what comes out of you when you are happy, sad, confused, in love, out of love, or perhaps bored.  We do it for many reasons.  Even if we're bad at it, we do it.  All of us.  In the car, in the shower, at a club, to our children, at a birthday party.  It can be done anywhere at any time and we are healed by it.

Sing

Hearing birds do it reminds us that the new season is upon us, here in the Northeast.  The sun is up earlier and the birds are vocalizing outside my window.  What a relief from the cold, worn winter.  I listen for the different songs and variety of birds, and welcome them to my yard for the warm weather months.

Sing

Do it for yourself, to remind yourself that you have a voice. 

[The Blogger]

Middle of night not time to be thinking things over.

Squeak goes springs.  Dark outside.  Trying not to wake you.

Strong espresso and dew in the fields.  Waiting for sun risings.

Things bothering us.  Middle of the night.  Wondering.

Squirrles squinting at me.  Not sure why I'm awake this early.  Not sure if I'm a dangerous to them.  Or maybe a meal.

Espresso growing cold.  Strings around fingers.  Not remembering why.

Settling in.  Quiet enveloping me.  Awareness of tiny sounds.  Tinier movements.

Bird somewhere.  Sqeaking at me.  Look up to the dawn.

Watching light paintings sky and trees and landscapes.  Unspeakable beauty taking my breath away. 

(Clearer in Italian, flowery in French, brutal in Bosnian, but so hard to tranlating.)

Warm milk and daylight.  Things looking brighter.

Springs squeaking softly and I slipping under covers.

Try not to waking you as you sleeping with smile.

[the problem child]

I hardly ever take off my rings.

One, my great-grandmother's engagement ring, an elegant diamond setting.

Second, a small ring, not an engagement ring, but it has a tiny diamond chip and was a gift from my husband before he was my husband, and when we were both relatively impoverished.

Third, a wedding band, purchased in a pawn shop after my treasured original band went down a pub toilet one extremely cold night. (My bladder shrinks when it's cold. So do my fingers.) My finger felt naked, and in three days I had been hit on twice, so rather than track down an exact replica of the original, I went out shopping across the river. It fits better than the orignal did, even in cold weather, and doesn't cause a callous either. I guess as much as I miss the symbolism of the original, this ring actually works better for  me. Purchase your wedding ring in haste, repent at leisure.

Hope Charcoal Sniper P is having a great start to married life this weekend and that she shopped more carefully than I did!

[Irishgirl]

Thanks for all the great contributions this week. Writing Club Week 22 has begun and can be found here.

[Deep Blue]

Oh, I suggested Weddings/Marriage for Week 22 and that was BEFORE I read Problem Child's post above. Mudflats karma!

[0whole1]

Dweam within a Dweam

I was married before -- before I was married, actually.  We lived together for five years, and it was just easier to say "wife" than go into all the gory details.  With HR or inside my own head.

...

She's gone now.

[Irishgirl]

OK

[0whole1]

OK

Whoops -- I posted in the wrong week.