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Holy Gentian Root

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urgent time travel
Moxie plant conflagration
Mainer on the run

dastardly event
old formula up in smoke
holy gentian root

workers brains stripped clean
yikes  moxie revolution
hoarders aim their guns

withdrawal symptoms
tongues hanging down to the ground
mouths dry with despair

fantasy hero
electric power plant clue
travel fry or die

1800's garb
levis boots old canvas bag
hero all prepared

skilled town inventor
time travel plot uncertain
day week centuries

intrepid Mainer
power surge to formula
nineteenth century

open sturdy safe
success but with consequence
bare naked Mainer brain

brave super hero
powerful surge stripping clean
leaving gentian root

true Moxie rescue
formula in hero's hand
flash orange zoom back home





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  • J aime Coudre silver member
    September 27, 2008

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    Now for sure I will have to learn about Moxie...Congratulations on the HM


  • Summer52
    September 26, 2008
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    Good luck to the contest, Mumsy!


    Summer51

  • carole21
    September 24, 2008
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    interesting take on the prompt . . good luck in the contest !!


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    September 24, 2008
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    Another variety of gentian root.
    The Master of Moxie will have to tell us
    which is the type that gives Moxie its
    distinctive flavor, and aftertaste, as reported!


  • moon2u
    September 24, 2008

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    Haikuing along?

    I like that expression
    time travel should have its own unique expressions
    the poem is dynamite Aesthete and the piccy is so
    I believe," Yemish" is the word.
    lol
    I am laughing right now
    hugs Moony


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 24, 2008
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      Yes, adding new words to daily vocabulary.
      "Yemish," sure to stay. Glad it could bring
      you an out and out laugh!!!!!

      hugs back,

      M-C


  • bozoloper
    September 23, 2008

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    these is a whole lot of haikuishness... i'm impressed you stuck to a formula for so long, i could never do it... and time traveled too!


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 24, 2008
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      A tale I had to tell,
      so onward I pushed,
      haikuing along,
      until the hero
      met success,
      albeit in a state
      of undress!

      An alternate version
      in prose, "Quest."

      Thanks, Loper, for stopping in!

      M-C

  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    September 23, 2008
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    Two images of gentian root...


  • J aime Coudre silver member
    September 22, 2008
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    I give you 11 applauses...very good and fun to read and I love the pictures you add......lost me a little but only for a while..


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 23, 2008
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      Ah, yes, it does help to have learned
      a bit of Moxie history. Had to do something
      with my newly acquired knowledge! Thank you!!!!


  • gaze
    September 22, 2008

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    Those are very clever and fun!
    Yem as Moxie can is quite cute
    Nicely done MC!
    (First hug of the week)


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 23, 2008
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      Ah, Mariza, I'm warmed and honored
      by your first hug of the week!

      That drawing of the Moxie guy has been
      leading an alternate life on the Betty
      board for a while, so I thought
      I'd best bring him back home
      for a new adventure!!!

      Thank you!

      M-C


  • Yemassee gold member
    September 20, 2008
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    Oh my these haiku equal a Yemassee's dozen! (11, I always get short changed in life, lol)

    What have you done to my hair?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

    My comments by haiku:

    1. I cried, I thought, where is Bubbles' She has traveled through time before!
    2. mixed emotions...formula gone, but Heaven now a better place!
    3. Yes, it would be anarchy! Sheer anarchy!
    4. A Shocking Tale Of Horror!
    5. It's a risk I'd have to take!
    6. Not quite prepared, he'd need his "I've got Moxie" baseball cap! How ironic that would be!
    7. Centuries? "Say it ain't so!"
    8. Yes, fortunately thanks to hundreds of hours of research I know what date and what place to go back to...and all my friends said I was wasting my time obsessing on Moxie! Well I showed them!
    9. Bare-naked...is it winter there? The winter of 1876 wasn't warm!
    10. Leaving gentian root...No! Why not just take Sarah Palin from John McCain will you...oh wait, that's a bad analogy.
    11. "Flash orange" It's the most beautiful ugly color in the world! Once in my hands, I'll be worth a lot of money...I bet the owners of Moxie would pay me what? Pretty near a hundred dollars for it!


    Fun, fun stuff!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Will be back in a minute---changing the picture...

      • Yemassee gold member
        September 20, 2008
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        I was kidding! Calm down! lol


        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 20, 2008
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          This site is crazy.
          Earlier today, code wouldn't work
          to post the pix from bucket,
          had to paste. Now paste now longer
          works, it's back to code!

          Someone needs to give the site tinkerer
          some video games to play, before the
          whole site collapses!!! Moony had the
          message box jump for her, too, and she's
          got firefox!


          • Yemassee gold member
            September 20, 2008
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            Now I am gigantic...almost life size! ...but I'm much more colorful.

            Message box jump? Do you mean the quick comment feature? Yeah, that is annoying, I'm not sure anyone actually finds it useful...it just pops up right when I'm trying to read. In the old days that annoyance didn't exist. Might be a way to turn it off, I never bothered to check.

            Funny comment! I could use a video game myself when I start deleting my stuff on AP.


            • Aesthete2000 gold member
              September 20, 2008
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              No, on the message page, can't type in the reply box,
              but have to go up to the top box where the name of the
              recipient has then appeared. When it happened to Moony
              also I postponed the firefox download.

              But worse, all replies on the pages jump to a blank page,
              with just the comment in the box.

              No, not tha pop up box...that can be turned off with a click.


        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 20, 2008
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          I had this one in first,
          but changed to the faded photo look.
          Earlier calamity had struck,
          bumped the keyboard, and the whole
          thing flew off to the ninteenth century.

          Aaaaggghh...had started in word,
          but finished it her. Was going to be
          Part one: "Holy Gentian Root"
          part two: "Power of Moxie, the return"

          But then I saw the exchange with Mariza,
          hmmmmm, only one....quick change to ending.

          When I made the colored drawing I was trying
          to make a look that would fit in original
          Moxie time, for already an idea was brewing
          about the alternate universe story!

          Now back to re-read your "critque" for I am still
          stuck on this separate page box and can't see
          the rest!!!


          • Yemassee gold member
            September 20, 2008
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            Ah, it's not hair, it's the Moxie sparks of imagination!

            Exchange with Mariza? I'll have to go look, I forget what that was...something odd I am sure.

            It is very creative! It's even like something I would write, except mine would have the usual cows and penguins and such and would go in more of a circle (convolution?) than actually going back and forth in time.

            It took some talented thinking...humor is hard, and logical humor near impossible! Thanks!


            • Aesthete2000 gold member
              September 20, 2008
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              In the comment area of the contest posting,
              she had asked about "one." Since I only have
              my one always changing equation, I adapted!

              Thank you for your thorough investigation.
              Convolution? That's a great idea. Think
              it might adapt to Betty???? If there ever
              was a convoluted story, it would be that one!

              Hey, how do you like the dandy houses rocky
              wants you to build????

              Thank you, again. I think Moxie
              is infiltrating my brain!


              • Yemassee gold member
                September 20, 2008
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                Not that I really have anything against hunting rifles, it's just too many of them treat them like they are an extension of their psyche or something...and I could make other, more Freudian guesses for why they like guns so much.

                I feel a story coming on....


              • Yemassee gold member
                September 20, 2008

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                No, Moxie clears the head...of everything!

                Those houses are very pink...pink and cluttered. Actually they look like dollhouses.

                I see Mr. John "Once a Cougar always a Cougar" Mellencamp showed up there. Yeah Rocky's taste in music definitely suggests a Conservative leaning.

                But I like Mellencamp, his music I mean. But he must be a gun-toting conservative.


                • Aesthete2000 gold member
                  September 20, 2008

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                  Sometimes music transcends politics.
                  Mellancamp, always my daughter's favorite,
                  liberal daughter, that is.

                  Did you go to "Impulse, Desire, Obsession"
                  the fooler title ----the drawing of the sky towers...
                  go see yours!


                  • Yemassee gold member
                    September 20, 2008
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                    Ummm, I'm more lost than you at a George Bush rally.

                    "Impulse, Desire, Obsession" That was a poem of yours? I'll go see. Oh you mean the Yem towers! Will go see.


  • arafura gold member
    September 20, 2008
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    Good humour and very skillful writing. Bravo!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 20, 2008
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      Thank you, arafura! Nice to see you here
      in time travel land!

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