Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ My beautiful Shadow taking a quiet wander in dreamland
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Carry on Tuesday #57 ~ This week our prompt is the title and opening line of a William Butler Yeats’s poem:
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
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Writer's Island 2010 Prompt #7 ~ The Gift
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Sleepy old and grey
Expected insanity
Fun spice of aging
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Eccentric behaviour
Individuality
The gift of prime time
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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
- Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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9 comments:
That's a very positive way of looking at it.
Great attitude!
why is he scrunching up his face? You gave him something unpleasant to eat?
I love the idea of eccentricity as a gift to the rest of the world! Great idea, fantastic cat!
Elizabeth
Oh, I love your prime time kitty. Love cats, and yours looks quite eccentric, Gemma. Wonderful tribute! http://lindagoin.com/
looking so huggable...
bozo
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Yes, yes, grey hair is the fun spice of aging, that's the ticket. :) Great take on the prompt, Gemma. Meow to the wise grey one. (you decide who that is!)
Ouch! Your poem describes me to a T. Have we met?
Namaste.
getting old does have its rewards. the very first one is that it beats the alternative
Shadow is gorgeous! I definitely have the eccentric behavior down :)
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