Mmmmmm Coffee!!

I will usually attempt the day's topic/prompt, but I just couldn't settle on a fourteener. A fourteener is a poem with an indeterminate number of lines, but each line has 14 syllables. This style can be done in iambic pentameter or not. That means either 7 iambic feet (2 syllable that contain a stressed and unstressed note) or 14 syllables. I am not opposed, but wanted something different.

So...

Over at Shadow Poetry I found a Palindrome Poem (also called a mirrored poem). And I and going to combine my NaPoWriMo poem and my A to Z post about the letter "C" and write about coffee. I am rather fond of coffee, sometimes to me detriment. As once a fellow writer during 24 Hour Theatre wrote a show that mentioned my love of coffee  as a running gag. Okay, I am not mean, but when your rehearsing your show and you shout "Sara promised me coffee!" and your friend and fellow director looks over at your group (while she is rehearsing her group) it got quite interesting. Oh well, it was fun!! And I still love Mama T!! ~wink wink~

Prompt: Coffee

Not my strongest poem ever, but it's my first crack at trying this style. Might even try more down the road.

A palindrome, by definition, is a word, phrase, verse, sentence, or even poem that reads the same forward or backward. It stems from the Greek word palindromos: palin, meaning again, and dromos, meaning a running. Combining the two together, the Greek meaning gives us, running back again...

Coffee Thoughts

Aroma

Mixing gently

Within sunshine

Variable constants

Push away and morning breaks

Awareness birthed again

Life celebrates day

Only after eyes sees cup

Then breathing

~Refreshing~

Breathing then

Cup sees eyes after only

Day celebrates life

Again birthed awareness

Breaks morning and away push 

Constants variable

Sunshine within

Gently mixing 

Aroma

Anyway, this leads me to my other half of the post, coffee cups. I have amassed a small army of coffee and tea cups over the years. So much so that I DO NOT WANT OR NEED MOAR CUPS. I say to my friends lovingly. If you go traveling get me a postcard , or maybe a rock, or beach glass, but no more coffee cups. This is why. And in an hommage to Dinosaur Dracula who did a blitz of the rather more eclectic coffee cups out there, including some of his own. I present mine here:

This is part of a 4 cup set from McDonald's in the 1980's. DO have the whole set too!

 Left: a little bit from my home town. Right: mt 3-D wolf mug (with broken paw).

 Left: Enough said! Right: from Ithaca, NY

Theatre mug with pictures of my various roles in and around 2012.

 A safety mug from Denny's. Classy!!

Doing the safety jive in 2005!

 BEATLES!

Left: Neat homemade mug from a flea market in Avon, NY. Right: A little bit of the Crystal City from me to you.

My tea cups. Found both in Salvation Army stores in sets of 4. Anyone want a tea party?

 The left side was made in London and the right side in Japan.

Left: Why? Right: sunflowers mug. it's a Whovian thing!!

 Left: Kermit. It's the Hubs's! Right: the old logo for the local pop rock / contemporary hits station. WINK 106.

OctPoWriMo Day 19: Rain Free Write and Busy ROW80

Writing Prompt:  Free write for 10 minutes on the subject of Rain. Make it as visceral an experience as you can. How does it feel? Are there emotions you associate with rain, or experiences from your past? A song? A book? Use three of the words below.

Word Prompts: Melancholy, Drizzle, Damp, Rainbow, Cloudy, Grass, Somber

This turned darker than I originally planned. When I usually write of rain, it usually calming, relaxing, or cleansing. This is different than I planned, but I am not surprised. There is something refreshing about writing from a different perspective. What is more ironic is that it isn't raining here, in fact its pretty sunny and almost warm. I am pleased with today's poem. I even used all of the word prompts today, without stretching the idea too far.

In Wartime

In pattering dampness falls.

The rain soaked sky

Liken to drum beats

Something primeval,

Raw,

Scorching the azure fields.

Greys battling Blues

Something vaguely familiar,

On and on the drums

Melancholy

In their march—

Drizzle and cloudy,

The war rages

For the sky knows it will be all over

After all the

Thunder

And

Lightening.

Somber almost,

The soldiers

They glance across

The fields muddied

With the blood of theirs.

To the comrades lay dying

Helpless

Broken

In the damp soaked grass

And

Under a Rainbow sky.

Come visit the others at the Blog Hops for OctPoWriMo and Round of Words.

Now for ROW80 update. Still am very busy. Finally have a date for my Halloween Improv and a collaboration show too!! Now to solidify the cast and have a rehearsal with everyone at least once before then. Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is coming along. That's the BIG project, between props, sets, advertising, and getting last minute costume piece (not to mention my own costume and learn my 5 lines). Sounds daunting, Dear Readers? It can be, but a theatre person (if you are one, you know) you normally get 2 or 3 things going at once. It's in or blood. And from what I have seen doing A Round of Words, that writers often fall into this pattern too. It's thrilling and stressing at the same time.

Anyway, busy though I am here is where I am...

This week:

    *Reading: continuing through American Gods (Neil Gaiman). It is such an addicting book. I love it. The mythology used makes me drool. I am such a mythology nerd. There is also Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood). Stalled on it this week. Will get back to it this week.

     *Writing: wrote yesterday. Points for me. I even posted it here. Its about a dinosaur...

     *Blogging: see above. Nothing new here. I have my next book to movie review The Little Prince. That is one of the projects for this week.

     *Editing: started my revision of my short play The Audition. I got three page into the 1 act doing a full rewrite (it's only 8 pages). Stalled while trying to figure out where I wanted to go with it. Brainstormed some with the Hubs and got some ideas. Also planning on working more on this this week. I doubt I will finish the revision, but will get at good start on it. It's a start, right?

     *Visiting and Social Media: this one is easy someday, while others it's a stretch. I am really good about visiting blogs everyday (almost everyday). My average is 3 blogs, often I do hit four. I actually read and absorb the writer content. I want people to read my stuff (poems, stories, blog articles, then I will give that respect back. Twitter and Facebook can be harder. Some days I do not do anything, while other days I'm on fire. 

I have started thinking about NaNoWriMo. Its a scant 2 weeks away. Eek! I want to have an idea ready to go this year. Different from last year. I have been toying with a couple of previous written concept scenes/flash fiction piece, expanding them. Then I wrote my random Dinosaur scene(?)/flash fiction piece. Thinking I could potentially expand that. Or even take Crying Mascara and turn that into a full novel. I just don't know. So much potential. It's starting to get exciting. The unknown, the new adventures, the late nights where I write and write and write. I love the adrenaline that I get from NaNoWriMo. That'll be good times with Becky, Vicky, WordNerd, and Allison.

In the mean time keep checking back, Dear Readers. I will be up to something through the rest of this year

that will make it into this blog. I have two road trips in the coming months, as the normal stuff. Feeling great today. Listening to Sara Bareilles and planning to get my Pumpkins after I post this. Pictures to follow. In the mean time, see the Hubs and I made our first Halloween Mood Table (or Mantle). Thanks to Dinosaur Dracula for the idea. Oh, and can you guess some of what we have on the Halloween Mood Table?

Can you guess what is here?