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Ow! Good God! I Can’t Sit Down!

Written for Song Lyric Sunday –
Neither Purely Good Nor Purely Bad
.
Here’s how the theme inspired me.

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Order Of The Snake

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing
Prompt #428
using the word β€˜sibilant’,
and for Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts
Weekend Challenge
– β€˜circumspection’.
In exactly 35 words, this is my take.

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Miscellaneous, Writing Exercise

If I Could Hear Fairies’ Wings

Written for The Daily Spur Writing Exercise where the challenge
is to describe an object using only the sense of hearing.
This is my description. The accompanying video
will reveal what I am listening to.

Listening to this apparatus I hear what sounds like gentle cascading waterfalls similar to a bevy of swans as it glides onto and across a lake.

If I could hear fairies’ wings fluttering or hummingbirds hovering at their feeders, I believe they would sound like this.

There’s a regal quality, as well, like that of stately Baroque dancers performing a minuet.

Closing my eyes and listening intently, I see images of mushrooms sprouting through the earth, flowers opening, plants unfolding and trees shooting up to skies.

I can hear an arrow quivering through the air and insects buzzing by my ear.

The sun rises, slowly spreading glorious light from ocean to ocean and the silhouette of a ballerina pirouettes across the horizon.

I hear sand dunes shifting and snowflakes collecting on holly branches.

The heavens open as an albatross soars higher and higher to the tone a finely tuned Steinway.

A choir of angels is singing.

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This is J.S. Bach’s β€œToccata and Fugue in D Minor”, usually played on a pipe organ. Here is Amy Turk … harpist, arranger, composer and session artist from the UK … playing Bach’s iconic piece which has been transcribed for the harp, the item I was describing.

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