The Quiet One

Last post for this site

Last post for this Typepad site. Sunday I'm closing down or downgrading this blog.

It's bittersweet leaving. I have been here since 2005 but all good things must come to an end.

As you can see, green is the major ruler of my area. It's wondeful to see again and yes, by August I'll be sick of it! Right now, I'm getting sick of this rain, Ugh!!!! I think we have enough to last us until Memorial day. Last night , 2:00am it just poured!! I one point it sound like a freight train at one point. There was some thunding and lighting. Needless to say I wasn't happy having my sleep ruined since I was dealing with a slight headache all day.

Despite the rain I manage to get in walks yesterday and today. Got a few good picture. Really to do some infrared shot but need a day with no rain threating.

iPad has been shipped and I have no idea where it is right now. It's somehere in the UPS system. If all goes right, I'll have it by Monday. Yea! Really looking foward  to it.

So for this blog. A big Goodbye  and here is the link to the new one

The Quiet One

Fog and Trees

Ah yes, that's how I spent my Sunday, looking at that. Kinda drag the day down. Oh course staying up until 1 am to finish a book doesn't help. Usually on cloudy days, I sometimes get poetic and work on poems. Not this Sunday, was just plain lazy!

Ok first up, the link to the new blog!! yes, it's still The Quiet One but here's the link

https://quietandsimple.wordpress.com

When I get brave enough, I'll tried get my url to work at the site. Not guaranteeing anything. I'll probably be shutting this blog down this Sunday. Turns that this blog won't exactly disappear, it will get downgraded to the free version.  However the url will not work.  Now that surprise me, I figure they would just delete the whole blog.

Am I'm going miss Typepad.  Yes and No. I had a great blog here but I feel it's time to move on. I'm not blogging like I use to anymore.

I'm still bummed about Big Tent Poetry closing down. It was an excellent group and luckly I found another group that has a lot people from Big Tent over there.  Nice part about the group they just give out word list and you then come up with a poem.  What I like about word list is, you really can flex your pen with those prompts. Already have a rough draft of this week poem done. Just want to think about the ending .

Final Act but not goodbye

Sadly this will be the last poem for Big Tent Poetry. The owners of group are moving onto other things. Very sad to see to go. I have gotten some excellent poems out of those prompts. I do plan to go back and do the rest that I haven't done. 

Which leave me to another question? What other groups are out there that does prompts and is friendly too. I have been in other groups where it was very clique.  So if you can give me names or urls, I would greatly apprciate. Also with the demise of Big Top, I'm leaving Typepad for Wordpress at the end of May. Rather spend my money on books for the Kindle. It will be a brand new blog, since I'm not going import any entries from here.

So the new blog will located here. - The Quiet One  It's still a work in process.

So, for this week prompt - it was take a line or lines, that a fellow poet left you and turn into poem. Pamela's line really caught my attention, it just beg to explored . Pamela, I hope you are please what I came up with .

As always, grammar errors are untentional .

Enjoy!!

 

Sequined thoughts, no longer
shiny from the unclear memories.
Yet, they still reflect. Thankfully-
in the minor compare to my mirror.

But turn away and let the new leaves
be the light you seek in that hour.
For you have seen their real faces
and know their light and touches -

Is no reflection of old spoken words.
But we all know-

Everything shifts and never sleeps.
I will accept that - As words become
the blood stones, claiming this body.

 

Beginnings and Endings

Ah finally, the new leaves have emerged. It's nice to see all the leaves. With some trees having a reddish tint firt, one can't help but think about coming fall too. Ok maybe that's a little too early for that! It was a beautiful day today, could skip the jacket while I was taking my walk.

I'm happy to report that all Parents are finally getting better. Mom had a slight relapse over the weekend or she might have picked up a stomach virus. Just glad to see her better!!

Monday night, I finally got around ordering my new Ipad!!! Looking forward to using it. Plan to download Garageband and Pages for it over the weekend. I updated my computer today. Still have to install Snow Leopard but hopefully that's next week project.

Also found out that Big Tent Poetry is shutting down and very sad to here about that. People who run it, said they want to spend more time with their writing .Personally I think they just got tired of doing . I have seen it happen it before with other groups.  I am going look into other groups but might just do the prompts and stay out the socially part. Some groups are just too clique for me.I have one more poem to post for teh group, so i'll ask my readers about groups I can look into.

With the Big Tent gone, this blog will be moving over to Wordpress at the end of May. I have to cancel the account by Jun 7. I thought the account expried later in the month. So I'll spend this weekend setting up the new blog.

 Kinda looking forward it. Never had a wordpress blog before. I'm not going tried to import the enties here over to there. Just going start fresh . Might transfers a few poems but that's about it.

Eventually I'll get thequietone.net url working over there but I got figure out how to do that and I have to paid wordpress to do that. However that's cheaper than Typepad.  I'll post the new url and leave it at your blogs in the next week. 

 

 

 

 

Revising old poems

I'm back !!! I took last week off from the Big Tent Poetry. I was drained from last week dealing with sick parents. Both are just find now.

So this week prompt was about revising an old poem. That prompt cracked me up. I'm currently revising some my older poems. I don't care for their forms anymore.  I am a much better poet now in that department. Their words are still good, just might change a few things. Also, I do plan not to keep the old verison either.

So last night, I work on this poem. Was going post another one but liking this one much better.

As always, grammar errors are untentional.

Enjoy!!

Original one

Sun wasn't cut into diamonds
Today it lay like water in a bowl.
Geese never care, they swim towards
then shifts backwards to me.
Leaves pull from top of a tree,
lands on the ground and those
who are caught by the wind.
Touch the water and become sailors
Heading to the shore or sailing
the lake for the day or less
Sun places a path on the lake
But I'm not him, and cannot walk
this path, as it bends with the water
Have to walk the solid ground.
Even if I took those shimmering steps,
I would have fallen through.
What was gain in one step?

 

New version

The sun - wasn’t cut into diamond.
Today, it lays like water in a bowl.
Geese never care, they swim towards me.
Then shift backwards at one look.

Leaves, being pulled from tops of trees
lands on the ground. While the others
are caught by the wind, touch the water
and become the bold sailors.

Now the evening sun,
           has laid out a diamond path.

But I’m not him -

And cannot walk this path, as it
bends with the last light water.
I must walk on the solid ground.

Even if I took those shimmering steps.
I would have fallen - like a fool in a King’s courts.
So what was gain?

in one simple step, echo by words.