Posted in Blabla, Humor, Poetry, Scardanelli, Words, tagged 3WW, china shop, elephant, Humor, meme on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Maybe, if I weren’t an elephant
caught in a china shop,
I could afford to be cautious,
but asking that of me
as things are just is not human.
– Giancarlo Scardanelli
Written using the words cautious, human and maybe from 3WW.
Posted in Blabla, Imagination, Life, Literature, Nature, Words, World, tagged 3WW, chance encounter, Grand Canyon, Hopi Point on April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“Stop!”
I turned around.
There was a girl in her late teens, a redhead with freckles, somewhat chubby, in blue shorts and a bright red t-shirt, who was looking at me.
“Were you talking to me?”
“I was. There’s nobody else around, is there?”
It was true – it was early evening, the sun was about to set, and the [...]
Posted in Blabla, Imagination, Language, Life, Words, tagged color, colors, hues, moods, One Single Impression, tarot on April 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Color moods for the day (like pulling tarot cards):
Brown = what you have to work with
Washed-out dark blue = weather mood
Orange = the sun you’re longing for
Blue with violet tinge = what you’d want your unknown love to be wearing today
Yellow = think of it and put it inside you
– Niebla
Colors chosen and moods written for [...]
Posted in Blabla, Humor, Life, Music, World, tagged Alice in Chains, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, L'ham de foc, Music, Pat Metheny on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to my American colleague and friend Christopher, my musical horizon has expanded greatly over the past year or so. I’ve come to know bands I’d never heard of before, such as Pearl Jam (I always think of ‘toe jam’ first), Alice in Chains and, an oddball combo from Catalonia, L’ham de foc.
Believe it or [...]
Posted in Blabla, Imagination, Life, Literature, Words, tagged chakora, chatterati, dream analysis, dreams, India, Kanika Gahlaut, onirologist, onirology, page three, stage on April 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Harleen Mathur had a reputation as an outstanding albeit controversial onirologist. Among the chatterati of our city it was considered chic to see her. It had not been easy to get an appointment at short notice.
She asked me to reduce my dream to exactly three words and to write them down. I handed her the [...]
Posted in Blabla, Humor, Life, Love, Words, tagged 3WW, funny, remember, theatre on April 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s funny (or not?) that I remember the drama of our relationship above all. Looking back, I must say that I experienced it mostly as theatre on your part – you were always playing one role or another, and I’m not sure I ever encountered the real you.
– Niebla
Written using today’s words from 3WW – [...]
Posted in Blabla, Life, Words, tagged Cafe Writing, eternal, meme, possession on April 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
So I said to Herbert Mulroney, my prosperous suitor who is so full of himself:
Of course I decline eternal possession of your brag, and you may wander off temperately. And please spare me a rough good-bye.
– Niebla ( © 2008 )
The seven words brag, course, decline, eternal, possession, rough, temperate and wander from Café Writing’s [...]
Posted in Blabla, Humor, Language, Life, Literature, Words, tagged novel, novella, novelty on March 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I went into the neighborhood novelty store that had opened a few days ago.
“Can I help you?”
“I’m looking for some novelties. Nothing specific.”
“I’ll be glad to show you some of our novelties. Are you more interested in classic or the latest novelties? We have new and used.”
“Only the most novel novelties, please. Used only if [...]
Posted in Blabla, Dadaism, Imagination, Language, Words, tagged concrete poetry on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
… aisle, aisha
… bleat
… circuit, connection, communication, convention, convenience,
… door, distance
… enmity, effigy, evil, Easter
… foolishness, foolhardiness, fysh
… ghoul, ghastliness
… home, heaval, hope
… isle,
… jail, June
…
… lemur
… madness, mind, maturity
… neem
… opal
… preety
… quaint, quantum, query, queer
… rust, reunion
… store, stain, static
… weevil
This association thread was instigated by a call for contributions on the word [...]
Posted in Blabla, Hermeticism, Imagination, Life, Literature, Mystery, Poetry, Words, tagged 3WW, edifice, three, wednesday, Words on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
it was to be, reaching sky-high,
blazing in whiteness,
illuminated by an everlasting
orange sun
But it turned out to be rest,
a small body in white resting
on the concrete sidewalk,
twice on consecutive days
in the orange rising sun,
to then travel on modestly
– Niebla (© 200
Written in response to Three Word Wednesday #VXXVI – rest, sidewalk, twice
