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DD Writer’s Jam Fest: Round Robin 12_01

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie. ~ Stephen King

Okay here we go!

Round Robin… Pretty simple. Spontaneous. We’ll figure it out as we go. I think I’ll go ahead with One A Day, they will be ongoing, open ended. No end time imposed.  But, if you missed it or came in too late, there’s a new one on the way the next day. I’ll give them a theme or kick-off sentence or even a pic maybe of some kind.

PLEASE drop me an email if you have an opening line or kick off to suggest!  ladylibertine22 AT yahoo DOT com

Just pick up where the previous person left off. You can certainly write MORE than one sentence, but don’t get too carried away. It work best if you set the next person up for… something. No pressure. heh.

We’ll just see where it goes.

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DD Writers Jam Fest: Kick Off Open Thread

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Phew! Finally!!

Welcome to a few days of silliness and, hey, maybe I’ll learn something. Heh.

UPDATE (noon-ish CDT) ALERT! The very first Round Robin is now up!

DD Writers Jam Fest… a five days Docudharma exclusive (!) Writer’s… uhm … focus group? no… er, Workshop? well, sorta, maybe. Free For All? hmmm, yah.

Okay the main thing we’ve agreed to do is a Round Robin.  We’ll see if some of the other stuff comes together…. it’s up to us, you. Shake it up in the comments.

DATES: Wednesday through Sunday, August 12 – 16th, 2009

WHERE: Here, mostly, but also in your Brain, CPU or Journal

WHO: You. Everybody. Dharmanoids. Whoever wants in, jump in (as long as you play nice). You don’t have to be a “Writer”, no ID card or credentials art the door required. No Registration Fees either

HOSTED BY: moi but it’s a community thing

REWARDS? PRIZES? MEGA BONUSES? Er, no. Free ponies though!

So what’s this Round Robin thing? Fun. Da Rulz TBA. Well. I forgot where I was for a minute. “Rules” are just the standard issue Rules of Docudharma: “be excellent to each other”.

Here’s the links to the previous brainstorming, which might give you a little of background of how this Jam Fest came about: Part One and Part Two.

I’d like to add that Docudharma has some ongoing Series for writers (and readers) here … in particular, Robyn posts Muse in the Morning every morning. Robyn celebrates the Muses and encourages everyone to contribute their talent there anytime.  

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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. ~Isaac Asimov

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2009 Poems:  Dreamcatcher


Dream Catcher #3

Blooming Bliss

Bliss created

from stardust

memories

seeds coalesce

from strands

of time

and shed

their husks

creating space

to weave

the threads

in the tapestry

of existence

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–March 12, 2009

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2009 Poems:  Dreamcatcher


Dream Catcher #2

Snagging Wisps

Strands of stardust

woven spacetime

arranged to collect

better days

true emotions

radiant ideas

clasping truth

in the clutches

of abstraction

to be spilled

when bleeding

is necessary

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–March 11, 2009

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2009 Poems:  Dreamcatcher


Dream Catcher #1

Aspiration

Hopes and dreams

of a better future

might be captured

in designs which

simultaneously

register

the disappointment

of a second-rate

present

and the struggle

to escape

the entanglements

of a past

constructed

out of ignorance

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–March 10, 2009

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2009 Poems


Dividing Wall

Slip Sliding Away

Times…days

come and go

when you worry

about slipping

off your high perch

at the top of the cliff

you euphemistically

call a slope

that separates

you from us

I guess you worry

about ending up

where we are now

having to worry

about what we do

about having to climb

upward

to have a chance

to survive

to gain a handhold

on a place

in your society

hoping you don’t

stomp on our fingers

The slippery slope

is too often

a melting cliff

of ice

maybe carved

out of your hearts

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–July 17, 2009

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2009 Poems


Contact

Compare and Contrast

This space is vast

with room for all of us

to try to live

fulfill our dreams

yearn for love

pursue happiness

The difference

between us

is that some

hate the others

and it is not us

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–July 10, 2009

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2009 Poems


Ruby for Slippers

Parade

One step

at a time

one foot

in front of the other

ever forward

marching

for equality

here

for justice

now

for honor

of our heroes

for freedom

to be ourselves

Heads held high

we march in pride

for a better future

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–July 3, 2009

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2009 Poems


Illumination

Long Dark Tunnel

For years

we quivered

in our personal caves

until we found

our personal lights

our inner torches

that led us out

into a tunnel

still dark

so very murky

sinister warnings

slithering in the corners

warning us to go back

away from the danger

of being ourselves

Every so often

there has appeared

a brightness

in the distance

the dream of equality

for us to chased

only to see the light

extinguished

too rapidly

hopes dashed

at least for awhile

but we have kept pushing

forward

hoping the dreams

could avoid becoming

nightmares

Once more

lights shine

and we wonder

if this time

we will reach

the daylight

before our aspirations

burn

in a political

conflagration

not of our making

Will we ever be free?

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–June 26, 2009

DD Writers: August Online Workshop

PLEASE NOTE (update): This is Part One. We’ve moved on to Part Two here. Hurry up! 🙂

Docudharma has such an abundance of talent.

Writers, ring in, speak up.

I have a scathingly brilliant idea. (Uh oh!)

sick of writing Pictures, Images and Photos

dive in…

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2009 Poems


Cleaving

Double Meaning

Divided we fall

into the abyss

of darkness

hated

for being Other

our difference pitied

treated no better

than animals

We can allow

the axe of intolerance

to separate us

from the support

we need

or we can

cling to those

who will celebrate

with us

the meaning

of our lives

Cleave

has two meanings

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–Juneteenth, 2009

Burying Aaron

SEATTLE — A man has died after being shot in the head in the city’s Leschi neighborhood on Wednesday night.

Police said the victim was sitting in a car with two others when he got into an argument with another man. That man went into a home in the 800 block of 32nd Avenue South, came back out with a gun and opened fire around 8:30 p.m.

The suspected gunman fled the scene, detectives said, and is believed to have run inside a house in the 700 block of 31st Avenue South. Officers surrounded the home and tried to communicate with the man for several hours, but received no response.

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