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Exposer and closer of the extrinsically infistulated.
Neckless
>>Pascoite
This curiosity is the Lake Lindsey Dinosaur, last and uncompleted work in the life of August Herwede. There's more than one dino sculpture in this general area, including one that is also a building housing an auto repair business.
>>Pascoite
This curiosity is the Lake Lindsey Dinosaur, last and uncompleted work in the life of August Herwede. There's more than one dino sculpture in this general area, including one that is also a building housing an auto repair business.
Misapprehension
>>Pascoite
The rabbits in this neighborhood are fairly chill around humans and I've succeeded in getting less than ten feet away from them when they silflay on my lawn. I saw this one on a walk, it ran from the edge of the road and paused at the entrance to an arbor vitae hedge to take my measure. So I took its measure as well.
>>Pascoite
The rabbits in this neighborhood are fairly chill around humans and I've succeeded in getting less than ten feet away from them when they silflay on my lawn. I saw this one on a walk, it ran from the edge of the road and paused at the entrance to an arbor vitae hedge to take my measure. So I took its measure as well.
>>Pascoite
Collapse
My partner spoke to a meteorologist, who said that this is an example of a collapsing thunderstorm taking place about 60 miles away from the photographer.
Collapse
My partner spoke to a meteorologist, who said that this is an example of a collapsing thunderstorm taking place about 60 miles away from the photographer.
Kudos to the Artist for calling forth a work to match the Prompt. This loose pen sketch lacks a human connection but those accustomed to the strange may interpret this as alien forms being led to some sort of revelation or transfiguration.
>>Pascoite
Vanishing
According to my phone, I took this on June 1, 2026, at 8:14 PM.
One of the benefits of life on the Florida Suncoast is the spectacle of dynamic and often dramatic cloud patterns and sunsets.
Vanishing
According to my phone, I took this on June 1, 2026, at 8:14 PM.
One of the benefits of life on the Florida Suncoast is the spectacle of dynamic and often dramatic cloud patterns and sunsets.
>>Pascoite
Thanks for the kind words! I was hoping to make this a bit more resonant but ran into both time and rhyme constraints (workable rhymes for skull were not easy to locate). I had originally toyed with omitting the word skull yet implying it via rhymes, I couldn't make that approach work in the time I had.
Also, title should probably be Armature.
Thanks for the kind words! I was hoping to make this a bit more resonant but ran into both time and rhyme constraints (workable rhymes for skull were not easy to locate). I had originally toyed with omitting the word skull yet implying it via rhymes, I couldn't make that approach work in the time I had.
Also, title should probably be Armature.
I don't quite see how to illustrate a prompt like this, so I'm just going to submit whatever strikes my fancy.
>>Pascoite
I often default to sonnet or sonnet-shaped forms for these rounds as they ensure I will hit the wordcount. I enjoy playing with the rhyme schemes. This was another quick one, and not particularly deep, but I hope pleasant to read.
I often default to sonnet or sonnet-shaped forms for these rounds as they ensure I will hit the wordcount. I enjoy playing with the rhyme schemes. This was another quick one, and not particularly deep, but I hope pleasant to read.
>>Pascoite
This references an anecdote about the physicist Richard Feynman, who was present at the Trinity test. He related that he didn't wish to use the provided safety glasses, and sat behind the windshield of a truck to watch the blast, which indeed dazzled him but did not permanently damage his eyesight.
My intent with this piece, other than finding a means to compactly versify how such a bomb works, was to highlight how it reflected the rest of Feynman's storied career; stubborn, iconoclastic, rebellious, with the practical search for truth even when it hurts. Rather much to try to squeeze in, in retrospect.
This references an anecdote about the physicist Richard Feynman, who was present at the Trinity test. He related that he didn't wish to use the provided safety glasses, and sat behind the windshield of a truck to watch the blast, which indeed dazzled him but did not permanently damage his eyesight.
My intent with this piece, other than finding a means to compactly versify how such a bomb works, was to highlight how it reflected the rest of Feynman's storied career; stubborn, iconoclastic, rebellious, with the practical search for truth even when it hurts. Rather much to try to squeeze in, in retrospect.
>>Pascoite
The first two lines do reference an exchange in Study in Scarlet, where Watson is amazed to find that his learned friend not only doesn't know that the Earth goes around the Sun, but having learned it is determined to forget it, as it makes no difference to his intended line of work and hence is just a waste of precious neural capacity.
As to the last line, I did bungle that, having written four lines with no zinger to end them, and after fevered searching selecting an obscure name that didn't properly rhyme. I'll see if time gives me a better closure for this benighted clench.
The first two lines do reference an exchange in Study in Scarlet, where Watson is amazed to find that his learned friend not only doesn't know that the Earth goes around the Sun, but having learned it is determined to forget it, as it makes no difference to his intended line of work and hence is just a waste of precious neural capacity.
As to the last line, I did bungle that, having written four lines with no zinger to end them, and after fevered searching selecting an obscure name that didn't properly rhyme. I'll see if time gives me a better closure for this benighted clench.
>>Pascoite
I had in mind, dim arc seen from afar,
A Dyson stripe, a Ringworld 'round a star.
A rare and stately thing to find in Heaven,
A Halo that adorned the brow of Niven.
I had in mind, dim arc seen from afar,
A Dyson stripe, a Ringworld 'round a star.
A rare and stately thing to find in Heaven,
A Halo that adorned the brow of Niven.
>>Pascoite
Save For Their Song
Thanks for the gold, and thumbs up to Quill and Baal, the best of fellow versifiers.
Thanks for the lovely review! I sort of envisioned this as a fragment from a larger piece. I had Chesterton's Lepanto on my mind as I wrote and that inspired the long lines with short snappy 'chorus'.
Don John of Austria
Is met with Oberon!
Save For Their Song
Thanks for the gold, and thumbs up to Quill and Baal, the best of fellow versifiers.
Thanks for the lovely review! I sort of envisioned this as a fragment from a larger piece. I had Chesterton's Lepanto on my mind as I wrote and that inspired the long lines with short snappy 'chorus'.
Don John of Austria
Is met with Oberon!
>>QuillScratch, >>Pascoite
The Awkward Descent
This is largely autobiographical and was composed in a moving van as my friend drove us to a donation center with the sofa in the back. The legs fortunately could be unscrewed, though we only troubled to do this when it was stuck on the bannister halfway down the stairs. Thanks for the critique and praise!
The Awkward Descent
This is largely autobiographical and was composed in a moving van as my friend drove us to a donation center with the sofa in the back. The legs fortunately could be unscrewed, though we only troubled to do this when it was stuck on the bannister halfway down the stairs. Thanks for the critique and praise!
>>QuillScratch, >>Pascoite
If you can't toss it here, you won't toss it there
Thank you for the very lovely comments!
The prompt of this round is taken from a sentence attributed to Einstein, and this round happened during a time of my helping a friend to move while shuffling some old boxes of mine around as well.
The title of this came to me as I looked at an old box and tried to resolve myself to just throw its contents away. I had another thousand mile journey to make and needed to take it easy upon my car as well. I intended to write with this sense of "It's better to discard it now rather than haul it across six states and discard it then," but as I wrote the meaning shifted.
I felt my way into the subsequent rhyme scheme and had intended to prepend a few lines, which wound up not happening.
Even now at my destination I still struggle with letting things go. It's only stuff, it has no feelings, I don't have much space, and I can't fill my house with museum pieces and touchstones arranged around small crooked paths that meander through my rooms. But my old habits inform my new habitat. I am pleased that the piece discovered some kindred spirits.
If you can't toss it here, you won't toss it there
Thank you for the very lovely comments!
The prompt of this round is taken from a sentence attributed to Einstein, and this round happened during a time of my helping a friend to move while shuffling some old boxes of mine around as well.
The title of this came to me as I looked at an old box and tried to resolve myself to just throw its contents away. I had another thousand mile journey to make and needed to take it easy upon my car as well. I intended to write with this sense of "It's better to discard it now rather than haul it across six states and discard it then," but as I wrote the meaning shifted.
I felt my way into the subsequent rhyme scheme and had intended to prepend a few lines, which wound up not happening.
Even now at my destination I still struggle with letting things go. It's only stuff, it has no feelings, I don't have much space, and I can't fill my house with museum pieces and touchstones arranged around small crooked paths that meander through my rooms. But my old habits inform my new habitat. I am pleased that the piece discovered some kindred spirits.
Had a lovely full moon last night, shining down through a cloudless sky over a blue-cast landscape. Great inspiration for this one.
>>Pascoite, >>QuillScratch
A Gleam of Glamour
Thank you for the excellent and perceptive comments! 'Grats to Baal on taking the gold.
I didn't have a strong idea for this prompt, so I decided to use a scene I've had in mind for years about a mage using time magic to redirect the power of a growing tree into shattering a stone barrier. I liked the idea of the taproot piercing a vampire's heart so I went with that in this instance. I sadly lacked the space and time to go back to the beginning and lay the foreshadowing to spark interest in the later elements, but will be sure to do so if I expand this little draft sketch into a full story.
The title was supposed to refer to a phial of fluid magic, but it seems in this case to have had only a tangential connection to the prompt. So it often goes.
Thanks again for your comments and your interest!
A Gleam of Glamour
Thank you for the excellent and perceptive comments! 'Grats to Baal on taking the gold.
I didn't have a strong idea for this prompt, so I decided to use a scene I've had in mind for years about a mage using time magic to redirect the power of a growing tree into shattering a stone barrier. I liked the idea of the taproot piercing a vampire's heart so I went with that in this instance. I sadly lacked the space and time to go back to the beginning and lay the foreshadowing to spark interest in the later elements, but will be sure to do so if I expand this little draft sketch into a full story.
The title was supposed to refer to a phial of fluid magic, but it seems in this case to have had only a tangential connection to the prompt. So it often goes.
Thanks again for your comments and your interest!
>>Pascoite
This is a specimen of the sort of nonsense verse that may tumble forth when one has forgotten about the event all day and only remembered to write at 3 AM. I took care of the sounds and mostly let the sense take care of itself, searching for assonances and failing as described to come up with a closing pun that would justify things. Thank you for your kind words!
This is a specimen of the sort of nonsense verse that may tumble forth when one has forgotten about the event all day and only remembered to write at 3 AM. I took care of the sounds and mostly let the sense take care of itself, searching for assonances and failing as described to come up with a closing pun that would justify things. Thank you for your kind words!
>>Pascoite
Thank you for the kind comment. This was a subject on my mind recently, as I mentioned elsewhere.
Thank you for the kind comment. This was a subject on my mind recently, as I mentioned elsewhere.
>>Pascoite
Convocation
I was trying to do something nonstandard with the prompt and thought of various single eyed creatures; the sparkle in the middle was an afterthought but I like the idea that it's the brightest eye of all, perhaps even vaster than the enormous lens at the top.
No references used, I just eyeballed it.
Convocation
I was trying to do something nonstandard with the prompt and thought of various single eyed creatures; the sparkle in the middle was an afterthought but I like the idea that it's the brightest eye of all, perhaps even vaster than the enormous lens at the top.
No references used, I just eyeballed it.
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