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Thread: Cookala's thread of fear and trepidation

  1. 04-01-2015, 08:47 PM #16
    Sorella
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    Cookie,

    Sonics are amazing here.
    Splendoring! Cauliflower puffs! Oyu rawk , girl!!!.
    Lovely uplifting start to the joy of NaPo ☺😊😀
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  2. 04-01-2015, 08:49 PM #17
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    so good to read about that moment -- loving also the mix of nature images, 'flock of cauliflower puffs, 'narcissus splendoring themselves, faces tipped up...' -- aviary fauna and anthropomorphic flora.
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  3. 04-01-2015, 08:50 PM #18
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    Great to see you bounce in with a boingy Spring piece of pondering. Happy NaPo Cookie :-)
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  4. 04-01-2015, 09:02 PM #19
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    Love the rhythm of Midmorning Reverie - it feels like breathing. Also, there is never a bad time to verb "splendour". Welcome to NaPonia, cookala!
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  5. 04-01-2015, 09:07 PM #20
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    You've captured a moment, like a Haiku might. You made me slow down and read aloud again stretching the vowels.
    Now we're cookin!
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  6. 04-01-2015, 09:50 PM #21
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    What a joyful reverie! I loved the flocks of cauliflower puffs, and the Narcissus splendoring themselves.

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  7. 04-01-2015, 09:52 PM #22
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    Hello Cookala,

    Well, you're off to a nice start!

    "faces tipped upwards to sip the sun." was delicious.

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  8. 04-02-2015, 02:35 AM #23
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    Ah Cookie! Here we go again!

    And with the spring rustle of alliterative sunshine and internal rhymes, once again the snow melts!

    It'll be a great April.

    Regards / Dunc
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  9. 04-02-2015, 02:58 AM #24
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    "Splendoring themselves" is a great reflexive verb, and I hope it catches on. "The world's churl" is great too.
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  10. 04-02-2015, 03:02 AM #25
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    Hello, Cookie,

    I hope you are getting better - it's wonderful to see you posting.

    A beautiful opener, a sense of hope hard-won.

    I tripped slightly on 'world's churl', a bit of a twister, but I loved the build up, especially stanza one. It has its own atmosphere of spring.
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  11. 04-02-2015, 03:15 AM #26
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    I love the breathy rhythm here, and the sonics. The hard soft, hard soft. Great start!

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  12. 04-02-2015, 03:59 AM #27
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    "faces tipped upwards to sip the sun" --yum.
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  13. 04-02-2015, 04:04 AM #28
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    Cookie, so nice to see you again, I'm in love with flocks of cauliflower​. For real.
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    Your clouds are cauliflower. Mine are dirty sheets.

    I'd rather have cauliflower.
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  15. 04-02-2015, 06:37 AM #30
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    Quote Originally Posted by cookala View Post
    1. Midmorning Reverie

    From my window I spy the sky and its flock
    of cauliflower puffs, interrupted only by
    the occasional flight and flap of wings.

    Down below my window the snow recedes
    and bares bright spring narcissus splendoring themselves,
    faces tipped upwards to sip the sun.

    Sometimes there are moments when the world’s churl ceases,
    chased back by a reverie to recede deep into dark cracks.
    I breathe and fill myself while the moment lasts.
    Lovely sonics here, especially with the use of assonance.

    Firefox thinks "splendoring" is not a valid word, but I disagree.

    Ah, for those "moments when the world’s churl ceases"...

    I've had very little of them lately.

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