When I was walking down the canal I looked up and down the way. I was listening to the peacocks calling into the night. I like the sounds of peacocks. I always think of blue ribbons curling or sound wood curling against into little corkscrew shapes when they sing. I especially like it when they sing in the early evening. Something about the ( Read more... )

When I was a kid I used to think if you grabbed a goose by the bulbous part of its nose and squeezed it that would make the goose honk. Of course, I'm not sure why you would grab the goose by its nose. This memory makes me smile as sit by the basin and watch the geese swim by. Afghanistan geese. I always think of the slender-necked creatures this ( Read more... )

Thrill the World, she suggested. I liked idea of the world dancing as one and the fact that we would be the event’s starters was even better. I couldn’t dance though. On my best days I could barely walk. To quote a friend I suffered from something more like sustained falling than anything resembling a graceful gate ( Read more... )

Note: This is post is political in nature and rather uncomfortable for me. Truth be told I considered skipping the prompt all together as it was that uncomfortable for me. However, that's the whole point of this exercise to get past discomfort and the such. That being said, there is no mud-slinging, just thought.

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I'm not fond of this one. I put it here to continue the theme. It was probably the fastest written one (and at work at that) in about five minutes.

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A short one today due to lack of time...

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