100 Words - Hooked
Good morning fair readers. The day is grim outside and I’ve caught myself a virus of some kind, so I write from a cocoon of blankets as I peer out from puffy eyes. It’s a sucky Tuesday in my neighborhood. Last night I saw Eddie Izzard at the Orpheum, and that was fantastic fun even though I started to feel the tiredness from impending illness towards the end of the show, and certainly on the long ride home. I’ll write more about that later. Eddie Izzard that is, not my sickness. Why make you suffer too?
Last week’s 100 Word challenge was “Hooked”. Let me take a moment to direct new readers (and hopefully new playas) to the 100 Word Challenge Rules, such as they are. The first 100 words is a reflection of one of the things that comes to my mind when I hear the word hooked.
Heroine hooked him with promises of bliss. She became his lover, his friend, his steady companion, his home, and his escape. She needled her way deep and deeper into his flesh, his brain, his soul, then she methodically took him down until he didn’t know how he ever lived without her, or ever would. She turned on him, turned him inside out and he loved every minute of it, even when the bliss was punctuated through with searing longing, even when the lies stacked upon lies; those she told him, those he told others, and worse, those he told himself.
None of us are entirely sure about what happened to Secret Agent Mama this week when her 100 words turned out to be about Hidden, yet at the same time about Hooked. Truth is, doesn’t matter. SAM always delights me with whatever she writes, and with her photography. Did I mention she has a new website just for her fantastic photos? Damn I miss my camera!
I can’t
I won’t
It’s sad
It hurts
The pain
The lies
The cost
The loss
My heart
It broke
The past
Long gone
And still
I sit
I wonder
I balk
I question
How come
And why
Just some
Too much
Or maybe
Just maybe
The pain
Is deep
And maybe
Just maybe
Evil creeps
Sadness looms
Happiness doomed
Squinted eye
Furrowed brow
Underneath it
Somewhere somehow
Truth sprouts
Good grown
Paths chosen
Evil dethroned
I can
I will
I’m happy
You know
My slate
Is clean
My heart
Is well
You’ll see
You will
What’s hidden
Must stay
LouCeel, in addition to coming back again and again with clever and thoughtful 100 Word submissions, also always has a unique descriptive word to describe me. This week I was “diabolical”, which of course means incredibly evil. Of course he meant it playfully. I mean, I’m not really evil. Hehe. I digress. LouCeel uses 100 words to describe his love and passion for art and being an emerging artist.
The names come to me in my sleep. Unbidden. Relentless. Remorseless. And the visions the names conjur up are all the things the names imply - romantic, intimidating, eloquent, frightening, terrible, bloody, angelic, pastoral and religious. To give a name to but a few of the things they imply. The names are old. So very dead. But they have a life of their own. Something that I would wish for myself if I had but one wish to claim. The talent to live among the names. For their names are ART. And I have found their Art. And I am hooked.
I was thrilled to see Sassy Mama Bear back for this week. Her poem evokes peaceful and gentle energy. I feel like I could know this man.
Sitting upon the park bench,
the wind whistling through the trees
He sat and watched the water flowing past.With fingers gnarled by years gone by,
He gently wound the line
A twist a turn, a knot deftly tied.A flick of the wrist, and a tip of his hat
He sat, watched and waited.
The sun warming his weathered skin.A gentle tug, just a simple sign
Slowly, with skill learned over time
He wound the strand around his hand.Dangling at the very end flopping fiercely
Hung his dinner, trying hard to break free
a beautiful perch, hooked.
~ Penelope Anne Bartotto
April 25, 2008
So that wraps up the Hidden 100 Word challenge. I’ve got a book laying here that I’m not actually currently reading. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An old fraying paperback with an orange cover that I picked up at a tag sale because it looked interesting. From its yellowed and aged pages, I give you:
Fringe
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe” ~Theodore Roosevelt
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I so cannot wait to hear about the Eddie Izzard show he is flippin’ hilarious. Feel better, quick!
Now, to think on which direction to go with this week’s word.
Those of us who occupy the ‘lunatic fringe’ salute you! Get well. Be better. Learn to love like a lunatic. It’s so …. strange …. that way.
My “Fringe” entry is posted…with theme music.
http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com/2008/04/100-word-challenge-fringe.html
My entry - I almost forgot to link it - is here.
Yay!
How are you. The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I am from Namibia and also am speaking English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Basic health care costs, including dental and eye care, should be free or at least capped at a nominal amount affordable even by pensioners welfare recipients and paid for by public money taxes.”
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