Today Gwen Plano has a special guest, Dan Antion over at her place. It’s well worth a visit to find out all Dan and his series The Dreamers Allience . Here is Gwen’s introduction.
“I have a treat for you today. Author and blogger Dan Antion joins us to share a bit about himself and his post-retirement avocation — writing.
Dan grew up in the Pittsburg, PA area. He and his family now live in Connecticut, but his stories often include scenes from his early formative Pennsylvania years.
Prior to writing for the masses, Dan had a long career in technology as a systems developer. In his own words, “I made my living creating what wasn’t included by the architects and builders.”
In addition to writing, Dan enjoys other creative endeavors: photography, making furniture, building cabinetry, and working in and around his house. He often shares these great loves on his blog.”
This week’s challenge for Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Tanka is 🌈 Color poetry. Let’s work with the color of your choice in a syllabic poem. FOLLOW the instructions below:
You don’t have to write about “magic.” I found this magical color chart on Pinterest and thought it would help to inspire us in creating a piece of poetry.
Instructions:
From the chart: choose a color and use the color in your syllabic poem.
Also: Choose ONE word from the descriptions under the color you chose, and add it to your syllabic poem.
Remember, if you write a freestyle poem, please include a syllabic form along with it.
This week I have chosen to write a Butterfly Cinquain . The syllable pattern to this is (2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2)
Purple Intuition
Ever Seeing eyes shut Intuition our guide Purple is the colour of sight Leading Us by a mother’s gentle hand Into the one true light Where tomorrow Unfolds.
Hi everyone it me 😊. John at Thesoundofonehandtyping has invited me to join him at Monday’s Music Moves Me which is sponsored by Marie, Cathy, Alana, and Stacy, so be sure and visit them, where you can also find the Linky for the other participants.
I am not sure if I have the theme right but John has done the days of the week so I have followed suit. I have thrown in a few songs that list every weekday and for measure I think most of them are danceable….. Plus I think some of the lyrics are fun . So thanks to John and the Ladies here I am 💜💜💜 I hope you enjoy and I have got the idea right.
After checking into their rooms the three of them went to a little trattoria Merlin knew for coffee and a discussion about why they were there. They sat dunking their biscotti in delicious coffee. Merlin opened his record bag and took out a folder… Some tickets fell out onto the table. “Oh!” Squealed Gail , “what are these?” These are our tickets for the Cathedral, Duomo Museum, and Baptistery Tour. I have booked it for this afternoon.” Gail was so excited , “are we going on a guided tour oh! wow Merlin you are spoiling us.” Morgarna choked on her coffee,put her cup down and then lit a cigarette, “Calm down lady, Merlin never does anything without there being a reason!” Gail looked at Morgarna and helped herself to one of her cigarettes and lit it….”Is that true Merlin do you have an ulterior motive?” Merlin coughed and trying to change the subject said “Do you ladies have to smoke you know how much I hate the habit!” Gail went to put her cigarette out but Morgarna stopped her, “Yes we bloody do, now what’s the catch here?” Morgarna scowled. Merlin shifted in his seat looking uncomfortable then clearing his throat he said. “Well yes there is a problem here , there are strange goings on at the Baptistery.” “I knew it” Morgarna said raising an eyebrow brow at the waiter and requesting a bottle of Cabinet-Savenogn and three glasses.
While Morgarna and Gail did the tour Merlin slipped away from the others and walked the exterior walls checking for time fractures and space anomalies. It was a pleasant afternoon not too hot or crowded, and he was enjoying the beautiful decoration of the outside walls of the building. He was particularly interested in it’s three sets of artistically important bronze doors with relief sculptures. The south doors were created by Andrea Pisano and the north and east doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti. Michelangelo dubbed the east doors the Gates of Paradise. These were the doors he was particularly paying attention to. After circling the building several times he found the tiniest of cracks in the space continueum. He checked and checked again and yes there was a tiny space portal …from the reading on his machine he could see it was small and no time was involved. It was definitely there though…. The second in a week, and it was growing.
When the tour was finished the ladies joined Merlin at the east doors . Gail was full of the sights of the tour especially the dark, which is divided into a lower part with columns and pilasters and an upper part with a walkway. She could see that those who had built it spared neither trouble nor expense in decorating the baptistery. The walls were clad in dark green and white marble with inlaid geometrical patterns. The niches are separated by monolithic columns of Sardinian granite. The marble revetment of the interior was begun in the second half of the eleventh century. Gail was just besotted by it. Morgarna and Merlin decided to let her talk herself out and decided to ake plans over dinner.
Sitting outside a very plush Ristaunté in one of the squares Merlin explained what he had found . “Are you sure it’s a definite space portal it sounds so tiny…not like the one at the dig which was definitely a time and space portal.” Morgarna asked. “Yup definitely it obviously won’t go far but we cannot let it stay there a child or even an adult could slip through the portal. So ladies if you are ready we need to go and deal with it now. “ Finishing her wine and stubbing out her cigarette Morgarna got up to go followed by Gail and Merlin.
When they got back to the Baptistry the place was dark and empty. Merlin led the way around the building to the East Door. He soon found the portal. He checked around the square to see that there was no one watching them when he was sure they were alone he said ” Right ladies through we go ” he said, for once actually leading the way. They all had to bend down and almost crawl through the invisible rift.. “This isn’t like the one from the Dig to the Galleon” Gail said. “Nor the one from the fort from summer to winter !” Replied Morgarna. Merlin chimed in..”No it’s the smallest one I have ever seen!”
After what seemed Iike hours crawling through cobwebs, dust and huge drops on either side they finally arrived at a turning…in front of them they saw a crack of light. They all hurried towards the light.
With a collective sigh of relief they all emergered to the most unexpected sight.
Gondola
They had been crawling through the night and now in the light of dawn the had arrived in Venice! Standing there they saw gondolas anchored outside some beautiful but old buildings surrounded by green water. Gail rubbed her back and asked, “Why couldn’t we have used the Anomaly and jumped it would of been much quicker?” “Because ” said Merlin ” we had to go through the rift to seal it!” “Oh! I see” said Gail sighing and not seeing at all. Morgarna said “okay who’s for breakfast I am starving and I need a ciggie! We can sort all this out later. Merlin what have you forgotten? “ Merlin thought then with a wave of his hand he sealed the rift from this side. “Right let’s have breakfast and a break before anything else happens”.
There is always a deadline, be it real or imagined. Whether it’s the day you are born on or the day you will die the clock never stops ticking. Nature measures the new seasons by the completion of the old ones.
This week’s challenge is to find your Spirit Animal. Take the quiz at Colleen’s blog. HERE
Well I took the Quiz and I am a Humming bird.
Appartently:
“In most cases, the hummingbird spirit animal is a messenger of joy, love, and good luck. This mighty little bird is also a symbol of beauty, playfulness, and resilience. Those with the hummingbird as their spirit animal tend to be happy. They’re joyful people who love life and all of its challenges”
So if I am to write about the humming bird and it’s spirit I will need a delicate for so I have chosen to write to Tricubes. Here are the rules of Tricubes:
Each line contains three syllables.
Each stanza contains three lines.
Each poem contains three stanzas.
So we’re talking cubes in mathematical terms (to the third power). No rules for rhymes, meter, etc. Just three, three, and three.
This week our host Jim Adams has asked us to sample some Hip Hop Rap for Song Lyric Sunday.... Well I do have eclectic tastes but today is one of my least favourite genres. That is not to say I dislike it but I can live with it or without it. So what is Hip Hop Rap?
Hip hop music or hip-hop music, also known as rap music and formerly known as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the Bronx borough of New York City in the early 1970s by African Americans, and it had been around for years prior before mainstream discovery. This genre of music originated as anti-drug and anti-violence, while consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats) that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. According to the professor Asante of African American studies at Temple University, “hip hop is something that blacks can unequivocally claim as their own “. It was developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti art. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing. While often used to refer solely to rapping, “hip hop” more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
So lets go back to the late eighties and Salt and Pepa….. They made great dance music and although lyrics are my first love dancing does come a close second . So first choice is Push it !
“Push It” is a song by American hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa, who originated in Queens. It was released as the B-side of the “Tramp” single in 1987. It peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1988 and, after initially peaking at number 41 in the UK, it re-entered the charts after the group performed the track at Nelson Mandela‘s 70th birthday concert, eventually peaking at number two in the UK in July 1988. The song has also been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song is ranked number 446 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was ranked number nine on VH1‘s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
The song quotes a line from “You Really Got Me” by The Kinks, with the word “girl” replaced with “boy”: “Boy, you really got me goin’/You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’.” (For this, Ray Davies received a songwriting credit for “Push It.”) It also quotes “Pick up on this” from “I’m a Greedy Man” and “There it is” from “There It Is“, both by James Brown. The whispered “Push it” is sampled from a 1977 recording called “Keep on Pushin'” by the band Coal Kitchen. This song is written in the key of A minor.
Salt-N-Pepa (sometimes stylized as Salt ‘N’ Pepa) is an American hip hop group formed in New York City in 1985, that comprised Salt (Cheryl James), Pepa (Sandra Denton), and DJ Spinderella (Deidra Roper).
Salt-N-Pepa have sold over 15 million records worldwide, making them one of the best selling rap acts of all time. Their success in rap and hip hop culture has earned them the honorific title “The First Ladies of Rap”
Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby Ooh, baby, baby, ba-baby, baby Get up on this
Ah, push it Ah, push it Ah, push it Get up on this Ah, push it Get up on this Ow! Baby!
Salt-N-Pepa’s here Salt, Salt-Salt, Salt-N-Pepa’s here Salt-Salt-Salt-Salt, Salt-n-Pepa’s here Salt-n-Pepa, Salt-n-Pepa, Salt-n-Pepa’s here Salt-Salt-Salt, Salt-n-Pepa’s here
Now, now, now, wait a minute y’all This dance ain’t for everybody Only the sexy people So all you fly mother’s, get on out there and dance Dance, I said
Salt-n-Pepa’s here, and we’re in effect Want you to push it back Cooling by day, then at night, working up a sweat C’mon girls, let’s go show the guys that we know How to become number one in a hot party show Now push it
push it good (Ah, push it) push it real good (Ah, push it) push it good (Ah, push it) p-push it real good
Ow! Push it good Ooh, baby, baby, baby, baby Ooh, baby, baby, ba-baby, baby
Push it good Push it real good Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop Yeah, you! Come here, gimme a kiss Better make it fast or else I’m gonna get pissed Can’t you hear the music pumping hard? Like I wish you would Now push it
Push it good Push it real good Push it good P-push it real good Ah, push it
Get up on this (Uh) get up on this (Uh, uh) get up on this (Ha) get up on this (Hit it)
Boy, you really got me going You got me so I don’t know what I’m doing Ah, push it Ah, push it
Boy, you really got me going You got me so I don’t know what I’m doing Ah, push it Ah, push it
Ah Ah, push it Push-push-push-push it, push it Push it Push, push, push, push it, push it Push it, push it Push it, push it, pushit Push it, push it Push it, push it, push it
The music video was filmed in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel (now the L.A. Grand Hotel Downtown) in Los Angeles in December 2000. Directed by Spike Jonze, it features actor Christopher Walken, who trained as a dancer in musical theatre before his acting career. Walken had asked Jonze to film his dancing, and Jonze suggested that he participate in the video. Fatboy Slim had originally been scheduled to have a cameo in the video, replacing Walken in the harness shots, but was unavailable that weekend because his wife was giving birth.
In the video, Walken is relaxing in a chair in a deserted hotel lobby, when he hears the song being played from a cleaning cart nearby. He begins to dance around the hotel, then gets in an elevator, leaps off the balcony, and flies around the mezzanine before returning to the chair and sitting back down.
The “Weapon of Choice” video won six awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. Walken was awarded one of MTV’s “Moonmen” for Best Choreography. The clip was also ranked number one in a list of the top 100 videos of all time by VH1 in April 2002 compiled from a music industry survey. The Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt has also danced in a version of the video directed by Malik Bendjelloul. In 2012, British comedian and presenter Rowland Rivron also won charity TV show Let’s Dance for Sport Relief with his reenactment of the video’s choreography.
Walken has cited admiration for Jonze as one of his main reasons for appearing in the video, which he also welcomed as a chance to do “something different”. He also noted that as a trained tap dancer, dancing to electronic music suited him well. More information here.
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