Thursday, January 15, 2009

Gaza



photo ("House on Fire ruin"*) by illryion



Stripped Clean
by Fieriness

Weighed Down
by Holiness

Rocked
by Militarism

Crushed
by Historicism






for read write poem image prompt #7 (get your poem on #61)

______________
* ru·in
n.
1. Total destruction or disintegration, either physical, moral, social, or economic.
2. A cause of total destruction.
3.
a. The act of destroying totally.
b. A destroyed person, object, or building.
4. The remains of something destroyed, disintegrated, or decayed. Often used in the plural: studied the ruins of ancient Greece.
[from Latin ruere: to rush, collapse.]
thefreedictionary.com/ruin


7 comments:

  1. How interesting to make a poem out of 'titles' and 'authors'. I might try this myself. Thanks!

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  2. That's an incredible photo and a perfectly made accompaniment.

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  3. I didn't read these as titles but I this is another way you have got much from a few words. The dictionary entry adds even more 'weight'.

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  4. Interesting piece.

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  5. Very poignant, and its sparseness gave it power...

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  6. absolutely loved the reference to gaza... so few words boiling over...

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