# 1540 TPOS prompt: happy ending

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shop local day
hot stuff ~ glass blowing
off beaten path
glass ~ heat ~ breath of air
watching magic happen
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TPOS prompt: happy ending
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Photos: (c) 2015 Saradunn
Atlantic Art Glass, Ellsworth, Maine
shop is on facebook

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# 1539 TPOS prompt: “Threads of Fate” fabric art by Cindy Rinne

For most of 72 years,
I thought that all would be gold
if I could just be like what my Mother expected.
No matter how I tried, I failed.
It dawned on me, recently, that my Mother,
a city girl, meant well,
but I was not off her spool of thread in many ways.
The traits she tried to change,
to be more like her and the women of her family tree
… and I thought I COULD do it,
were fighting the threads of another spool.
My father’s family, were farm people with great intelligence
hard workers with a love of the land.
You can see it in my generation of descendants and the next ones.
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perfection the goal
work harder to please~ to no avail
Mother’s heart broke
city girl with country roots
authentic self must fight to rise
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prompt: “Threads of Fate”
fabric art by Cindy Rinne
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# 1538 seize the poem prompt # 79. Rings (Olympics) .

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Watching the 2016 Olympics on television
as I have all the Olympics since I have had a television
I think this is the most amazing cauldron and flame
in my memory,
I watch for it to come on the screen and pause what I am
doing to watch it swirl in all its beauty and grace.
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spirals in motion
pulsing energy and light
mesmerizing
peace, unity and friendship.
Olympic cauldron flame
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seize the poem prompt: # 79. Rings (Olympics)
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free use image of the large kinetic sculpture
American artist Anthony Howe designed.
wn.com

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# 1537 TPOS prompt: happy ending

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December 24, 2015 ·

mill closed
shops almost ghost town
town rallies
community shares resources
Pop-ups restore Holiday Spirit
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TPOS prompt: happy ending
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photo: Bucksport Bay Area
Chamber of Commerce
on facebook

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# 1536 TPOS…at one with your world can you tell us apart?

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double take
confused and puzzled
father or son
decades apart
furniture gave the clue
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November 21.. TPOS…at one with your world
can you tell us apart?
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photos from family album
the top photo is Bret, my son
the bottom photo is of his father
at a similar age

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# 1535 TPOS … # 2 ” that ray of sunshine ” and ” how you see it

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simple yoga
basking in sun
relax to max
“sleeping cat” pose
whiskers never twitch
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TPOS prompts: ” that ray of sunshine ”
and ” how you see it ”
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photo: (c) 2015 Saradunn
of Miss Blaze

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# 1534 TPOS .. #1 ” that ray of sunshine ” and ” how you see it “

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just like me
she sleeps arms raised
fascinating
window sun warms ~ tempting
cat nap ~ arms reach to sun
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TPOS prompts: ” that ray of sunshine ”
and ” how you see it ”
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photo: (c) 2015 Saradunn
Miss Blaze in the sunbeam

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