Dragon

Also wanted to say how much I liked your last piece Ron. I loved the first one you put in at the beginning too, the imagery was fantastic.
I was tickled by your comment about teenage nerd girls would enjoy my stuff 'cause I was such a nerd girl when I was a teen! (Now I'm a nerd woman )
Can't wait for the next word list.

matthew

Damn Dragon! you just ruined my fantasy!!!

Raych

Orange hue of sunset,
Waves of the ocean glimmered,
The Mayflower bobbed
White sails, reflective, shimmered.

The crew set to work
Their simplicity of actions noted,
‘twas their simple actions
That kept the Mayflower floated.

A murmur set about,
Breaking the silent motion,
The catchcry was heard
“Rasputin rules the ocean!”

The crew looked lively.
Noting things were not okay,
As Rasputin sailed near
Causing Mayflower to sway.

The crew of Rasputin
Were known for treason and plot,
And so they decided
If others expect it... why not?

Carrying a bounty,
Of weapons; canons and swords,
Known to be ruthless,
They were real pirate lords.

Their actions erratic,
Their attack methods irrational,
The Mayflower knew
They couldn’t counter the arsenal.

The Mayflower crew
Turned scared and fearsome,
They tried escaping
From Rasputin, so awesome.

The Rasputin came
Charging, menacing and strong,
And continued to go
Elsewhen the Mayflower went wrong.

Smashed to the side
Screaming crew, running wild,
The Mayflower damaged
With the fragility of a child.

Rasputin had come,
Left it’s mark and then fled,
Leaving the Mayflower
Damaged, beaten, and dead.

I awoke in a sweat,
Screaming, suffering chills,
That’s the last time
I sleep after taking pills.

Dragon

Wonderful Raych, so lyric and it draws you in from the first sentence!

anotherronism

Wonderful everyone... Wow!

So let's have another dose shall we? See if this dog'll still hunt.

This time out we'll go even shorter - try to draw in some more talent.

99 Words. No more. No less. (Exclusing titles. Hyphenated words count as one.)

Here's the list (I don't yet know what I'm going to write. Free association begins NOW)

Until
Labor
Science
Love
Camera
Spoke
Quarterback

And - let the fun begin again

Ron

marg

Whoa.. tricky one, Ron.. but at least there's no 'real name' in it (but Quarterback ?? are you serious ?)... and is it OK if we spell 'labour' correctly ?

anotherronism

marg... There I go thinking locally instead of globally.

Labour or Labor - either way.

And non-Americans are welcome to use goalkeeper instead of quarterback.

And I'm not crazy about this word on the list either but it WAS the actual very next word which popped in my head after I typed "Spoke". There is a radio on the other room and the NFL draft is coming up so it's possible I overheard the word before I "thought" it.

But I'm stickin to my guns. Quarterback or Goalkeeper and Labor or Labour...

Have fun.

Oh - and there is a book in front of me called Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Richard P. Feynman. I was going to use his full name (this is probably where "Science" came from. But I realized I had used Mayflower and Rasputin on the last list and was almost stumped myself with those proper nouns as requirements.

So no proper nouns this time out

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Truly laughing out loud ... marg, you're at it again! There's only a handful of us here that don't write English(US) ... we're in the minority lass, so we'd better just write it as we know it and hope for the best. (Ha,ha,ha,ha, ....) You're right about it being a tricky one ... what do we know about quarterbacks?
What excellent writings were produced by all, in that last round. Who's got time for books with this game going on?

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Thanks for the leeway on quaterback, Ron. You posted while I was typing, so I could have saved myself the trouble. I'm still chuckling at marg's response to the list.

Robindcr8l

Here I go. This one was harder, I thought, because it is so short. Mine's silly, but hopefully I counted to 99 correctly!

Not until I began this labor of love did it occur to me to use a camera. I was the brainiac girl from the neighborhood high school, working on her own private experiment. I spoke to no one about it, and even left that entry out of my diary. But now I was in a position to prove that my suspicions had been correct all along. A girl didn’t need to be a cheerleader to date the quarterback of the football team, she just needed to promise him an A on his next science test! Someone take a picture!

Qsilv

It was juggling, gambling, Russian Roulette with love.
Belly down, out on a boulder,
sleek little gun held by the tips of my fingers,
like a quarterback grips the slippery object of his labor
at that last moment of contact...
release now, let it soar in a mighty uninterrupted arc
until it connects with someone
operating as much on luck as on science.
But that's the plan, the hope, the dare...
and it's Feynman's fault, all of it. His voice, his laugh...
the words he spoke, echoing over the sea below...
"What do you care what other people think?"

Dragon

Contentment

He was probably the stupidest man I had ever met. He thought a quarterback was the side of a coin with the Queen's face on it and his eyes glazed over whenever anyone spoke of science or politics.
However, he was also probably the happiest man I had ever met. He would toil and labour at his job for hours and sing sappy love songs until we begged him to stop.
There were many times when the camera was on me, or when I sat with all my degrees on the wall behind me, that I envied him immensly.

Dragon

I think that was the toughest challenge yet, it's hard to get what you want into so few words!

Qsilv

ah bah... copy/pasted the wrong edit -- insert "camera-" (sleek little camera-gun) ;>

Dragon

Aaah, that does make it slightly less ominous. But only slightly. It's an enthralling piece.

marg

Alright.. apologies in advance for any obvious idiocies, and I tried to restrain myself from trying to overdo the accent !

Eulogy for Joe

Yeah.. I knew Joe from when he was a kid – his pa was in the Labor movement back in those days, and his ma was into Christian Science.. or maybe it was the Mormons, I don’t rightly remember.

He was always big - never spoke much, but he played quarterback for our local team and he used to love having the camera on him! After he left school, he worked at his uncle’s hardware store, down on 7th, until the accident.

Yeah.. I knew Joe.. I always liked him – he used to call me ‘Mizz Baker’, real polite like.

Robindcr8l

I really enjoy this forum. It's fun to see how creative all of you are, not just visually, but intellectually! Great idea, Ron! Thanks for thinking of it. It's also nice to have one forum going that is void of complaining.

Dragon

Well put Robin. I find it a great window into another side of peoples creativity. We already knew the people who enjoy this site have rampant creativity (that's a good thing), it's fun to express it in different ways.

Well I was up at 5:00 this morning (trying to shut up my noisy cat) and when I went back to bed all I could think about was the current word list, so I finally gave in and wrote again!

My Own Death

My own death. I never really thought of it until it was hurtling towards me like runaway freight train, even then it wasn’t my foremost thought.

I thought of my life in flashes, as if someone had made a rather poignant movie with a defective camera. The science geek I should have given my virginity too, the Quarterback I did. Last years Labour day when I first said “I love you” and meant it. My Grandmother who spoke celtic.

But the foremost thoughts in my mind were “So this is what terminal velocity means,” and “Who goes Discount Skydiving!?”

marg

Hey, I'm really sorry, but I never commented on the last 'ThinkWrite'.. I didn't go for it, because of 'Rasputin', mainly, but I thought the people that did contribute were unbelievable.

For starters, midnightpoet's almost instant response was amazing (and hey, the words had just been posted !) - and the last two lines just really got me :
if she would kiss him,
very softly on his lip

RobinDcr81's offering was just superb.. and that was what stopped me even thinking of putting something in, because she used Rasputin in the only 'real' way I could think of using that name, so any later efforts would be pale in comparison !

Dragon's was awesome.. except it left me thinking - well, IS it actually just more convenient to stay married ?!

lynspotter's offering is just beautiful - reminded me a bit of that lovely, serene feeling you get whan you go for a walk in the woods on your own - bit like how DM described it in the first 'ThinkWrite'..

Dragon's second one was also superb.. had me there in the desert, doubtful of the blind escort and arcane knowledge, but knowing I had the vision to see Him..

Ron.. well.. the only words I can think of would probably be termed 'profane', but that's only in the sense of bl**** good .. it's 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' in less than 200 words !

Raych finished the session up with a really great contribution - given the available material, there were some brilliant lines (and rhymes) in the poem - and the 'not quite' rhymes worked really well, too !

SOOOO.. now we're on to #3, and I would like to suggest that we wrest this idea from Ron's hands, and do something similar to the MugDots challenge -

Ron -
you said Login 'won' the 1st one ( but then I think you might have other interests involved there !).. so why not choose a winner of this round and then they nominate the words / no. of words for the next stint ?

.. and maybe starting a new thread each time would be easier, 'coz this one's already getting pretty big !

Qsilv

wait wait wait....
without a Search feature in the forum, leaving it as a long thread makes it a whole lot easier to refer back to the earlier parts.