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The Darned Impertinent Spark





The spark, the spark,
the spark returns;
from glowing embers
its soul burns.

The flame, the flame,
the flame excites
the misty mind,
the hand that writes.



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The thoughts, the musings,
the what-evers and what-ifs spin
and contort to be freed
from the constant word din.

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The concept, the creation,
the quest conspire
to appear as reality,
in spontaneous fire.

The clamoring conclusion,
the climax culminates;
new life appears triumphantly
as the mind creates.




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The spark, the darned impertinent spark,
the burning thoughts, the mind's visions
conspire to become alive in word and line,
the product of whim and the author's decisions.

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Author notes

Penline and keyboard,
plus technology, team up
to taunt the artist/writer
to create something from nothing,
or from mere musings...

In a list

Words come alive when answered in kind.

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  • Rick Weston silver member
    November 24
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    feeling both curses and praise for the spark, driving us to create and giving us no rest until we do. a well shared vision of the impetus.


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      November 24
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      Hah! Like, "Out, out damned spot"---
      the desperation to get it out from under us
      and on to its business!!!


      I had brought this over to our Underground
      where we play and create unreal stories!
      One of my friends there was sure I had
      imbedded a secret code when she first glanced
      at the drawings---and then the "duh" hit her
      as she recognized the sequence!!!!

      • Rick Weston silver member
        November 24
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        i'll confess to a moment's pause, but with it sitting at my fingers not much more and i mainly blame the early hour of my read.


  • Olivias Violin
    January 26
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    FANTASTIC!!


  • Sudo Nimh silver member
    January 25

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    "The clamoring conclusion, the climax culminates;
    new life appears triumphantly as the mind creates."

    Indeed! Your artwork is Amazing, Aesthete... inspiration and ignition

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      January 26
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      Thank you, Charli-J!

      The spark had been simmering,
      and Conept-ion landed it on
      a flammable surface and the words
      took charge and appeared at dawn!

      M-C


  • pixiestix gold member
    January 25
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    Fanning the embers with pen and brush. I envisionsed the letters, the words, the lines, mind inventions shooting up and out of flames, turning into starbursts and the writer/artist hand plucking each from the sky as they zoom by.

    Beautiful, Aes.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      January 26
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      Ah, Pixie, a wondrous continuation of the thoughts!
      The words did want to go on, but you know how I can go on and on,
      as in ten parts, but stopped before the starbursts!!!

      Thank you,

      M-C

      • pixiestix gold member
        January 26
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        Knowing when to stop...I can go on and on as well Sometimes I close things up rather abrupt, you glide to a natural conclusion.

        The genesis of your art demonstrating the thoughts is the icing on your musings

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          January 26
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          Icing! Nummmm!

          Like the reference.

          The page would seem naked, incomplete,
          without a soul to me now if I didn't
          play with line and color to complete it!

          And to think in 2005 Jersey had to lead me
          to bucket, write out the instructions
          for me to get the photo or
          drawing to the page!!!

          All those unintended Con-results,
          bonus additions to the friendships!

          • pixiestix gold member
            January 26
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            A muse dessert fondue. lol

            Dwelling on the prose rather than the Cons.

            The art is your signature on the words.

            I've learned the bucket through trial and error. Jersey is always there with a helping hand. Maybe her ears will ring and she will wander over.

            • Aesthete2000 gold member
              January 26
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              Hah---I was thinking of that---the ear ringing.
              Maybe we should drop some bread crumbs
              to peak her curiosity!!

              Love it--"Dwelling on the prose rather than the Cons."
              !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
              I don't even remember the turning point date---but Jersey will!

              • pixiestix gold member
                January 26
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                I actually do...remember that is. Almost at anniversary which is probably why it is a topic of conversation in the now. I notice those things.

                Fork in the road, Test Pattern Pause.

                "Love it--"Dwelling on the prose rather than the Cons."
                Maybe I should toss this one to the black dog. Read but no words from me yet...


                • Aesthete2000 gold member
                  January 26
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                  ...continuing the theme...
                  dwelling on the poetry rather than the treachery....


                • Aesthete2000 gold member
                  January 26
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                  Haven't wandered in there for quite a while.
                  Still want to keep the happy part of the fantasy!


                  • pixiestix gold member
                    January 26
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                    I'm at a good place with it all.

                    You are up late my friend...

                    • Aesthete2000 gold member
                      January 26
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                      Had to go to bed last night---early dinner
                      for one buddy, later visit with another---
                      tired artist---to bed. Up for a while
                      and then back to dreamland. Had to get
                      my morning news fix. Can't let the world
                      happen without me!!!


                      • pixiestix gold member
                        January 26
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                        Need to witness the continuing change...
                        no second hand news will due


  • Denerica
    January 25

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    You just amaze me what can I say, when do you sleep? I work 11-7 and don't think that even on my day off when I still stay up at night and couldn't imagine being able to write sequels like yours...which of course are wonderful. Blessings.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      January 25
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      OMG---"Rainmaker's Healing Drops"--did I get that right---I just clicked on it
      and your comment came up----coincidences again.

      I finally caught up with sleep but was way behind in reading here.
      Just reaized I've been up since 3:30 yesterday afternoon,
      when I got up to to make dinner for my buddy.

      In previous years I had to paint 12-18 hours a day,
      but now business has gone back to the beginning
      and I finally have some time to play!!!

      Thank you for the kind words.

      M-C

  • Yemassee gold member
    January 25
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    Always wait 4 minutes and then hit refresh on your browser. I usually correct some typos.

  • Yemassee gold member
    January 25
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    So you had a good dinner and evening I assume.

    Ah the spark...in writing, in love, in any endeavor that requires creation. there are few things (and most can't be listed here out of modesty, lol) that are more gratifying than the spark of creativity. When my clown Bonko suddenly whispers in my ear..."I have a story to tell you" it feels great to start hitting the keys and helping Bonko's crude re-telling to come to life.

    I mentioned to a fiction writing friend that my stories usually take about 30 minutes (a hyperbole of some dimension) and she replied that indeed her best stories flowed quickly, the first draft of it anyway. And that is creativity and inspiration at work.

    Hopefully someone fills out an application eventually so I can apply the spark to more creative endeavors. Until then I'll keep writing poems to give to her so I have no work to do then, lol.

    Lovely poem MC, and it hits nail on the head...creating another spark too.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      January 25
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      Hey, good morning!

      Yes, I was going to turn my world around
      and allow sleep to intervene, but some
      knawing itch, some spunky spark
      kept telling me to fill a page!

      Yes, great evening. Absence makes the heart .....

      Were your ears ringing? Late, late night
      Pix and I were extolling virtues
      of the writer who has a vault
      full of ideas!!!!!

      Most pieces come easily,
      but I didn't reckon with Quest,
      the research, the multiple
      illustrations for each segment,
      and again the research for the
      smallest of details to be as
      creatively accurate as possible.
      That was a time consumer!!
      But the spark kept urging me on!

      • Yemassee gold member
        January 25
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        But Quest was a great example of that fire, also one of persistence and preparation. But all good things to have encountered. And that you had a number of readers follow it to the finish, that says all you need to know.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          January 25
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          Ah, thank you for the kind words.

          Yes, the comments, impatiently waiting
          for the next installment. And I wanted to know
          how it would end.

          I want to pick it up again, but, oh, the time
          and the tiredness!!!

          • Yemassee gold member
            January 25

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            Ae you still feeling tired? Someone needs to just lay down the law to you so that you get more sleep. It's a lot of work writing that series like you did. I can't even imagine doing it. All that remembering who was who, what was what and where is where, lol

            • Aesthete2000 gold member
              January 25
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              I smiled at the 30 minutes comment about the short prose.
              By part seven I realized from the time I started with the blank
              page, it was eight hours later when I finally got all the graphics
              inserted. I think that one had a lot of checking, the schools and all, the stores that defied time.

              I did catch up after the inauguration---slept at night, got up a bit
              and then back in for the day!!! I only checked in here a short bit, think that's how I missed you sneaking in the pieces in your
              already established placeholders!!! And rocky wondered why I
              hadn't been at Betty much!!

              To resume Quest I'll have to re-read and take notes, Eileen's
              overseas friend, who went to school where and stayed where. It was all in my head.....but the details are slipping away!!!

              • Yemassee gold member
                January 25
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                Just write it from a new perspective. Don't focus much on the past, just Rayne and Eileen and whatever story they are up to in the future. It doesn't have to be a sequel, just another extention.

                I write fast, thought fly out, I fill them in. Later friends find the typos for me.

                But if I ever did an extended piece like Quest, I'd have to slow down and think (and remember.) and like you, take notes.

                And of course, graphics take time, not only to make but to add to the story. So Quest is something to be proud of.

                • Aesthete2000 gold member
                  January 25
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                  In my head, I have all the details, the physical happenings, the identification, work, et al worked out. I mentioned some to you when finishing ten.

                  The fifties won't take as much research, but I already had to search out hand-held hair dryers! But that's just for the first new episode!

                  Will have to think a bit more. Fun, not to have to outline
                  and plan it all out---for it writes itself sometimes, as one event leads to another---sort of like your more spontaneous shorts, as Bonko. Or is a Bonko easier or quicker than
                  the cafe scene, the pony tail????? Hmmm...interesting
                  to hear what you say on that!

                  Thank you for the plethora of nice words!

      • Yemassee gold member
        January 25
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        Indeed about absence. I remember when even a long day apart made the heart grow fonder.

        Pix was extolling me? I thought she hated me, lol You and Pix were my saviors, during my temporary insanity, not my sole ones, thankfully but easily my two main ones. I stayed here after my childish reaction to truth because you were here and I was able to recover in part because I then met Pix who engaged me in an odd mixture of silly and serious talks that only I could probably appreciate, lol. If there is a God, he indeed sent angels when I needed them.

        If my ears rang from the compliments, know that they are returned to both of you with equal ringing!

        Blech, this is sappy, I really need to write a "Shocking Tale Of Horror!"

        • pixiestix gold member
          January 25

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          I heard the bells ring through the fog.

          Did the "God of Odd" just call me odd? Odd mixture? What?

          I'm spending to much time in Moxieland. I thought the name of the group was only a joke. Warning label maybe for other unsuspecting innocent passerbys?

          You know I don't hate you...gheez. farfegnugen

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          January 25
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          Yes, you can go only so long
          being the sweet soul you are---
          and then Bonko foregoes the whisper
          and SHOUTS in your ear to tap out
          the horror tale!!!

          Aha, when your fans get together
          your ears should heat up!

          But then we slap you around a bit
          in a lexicographic kind of way.
          That's one for the Yeminary.

          • Yemassee gold member
            January 25
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            Yes, picking on all my many typos and peculiar hick mannerisms, lol
            Sad thing is, Firefox browser underlines the typos and I'm still too clueless to notice them before clicking, lol

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