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| prescience\ PREE-shuns; PREE-shee-uns; PRESH-uns; PRESH-ee-uns; PREE-see-uns; PRES-ee-uns \ , noun; 1. Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. -- prescient adjective |
Word of the Day - from Matt Lassen Cartoons
Wednesday, March 23, 2011--Used by permission of Matt Lassen
Midweek Motif ~ Prescience / Foresight
“Beware the ides of March.”
Unlike Sherlock Holmes' mysteries which untangle the past, prescience untangles the future. Is prescience supernatural, coincidence, scientific, fiction? All of the above? I do not think I would want to know my future, but I have both consulted horoscopes and read Tarot in the past. However this motif informs your poem, I want details!
Today I am inspired by these three:
"Every invention began as an imagination.”
From Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. |
| Prescience |
| By Margaret Widdemer |
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And from The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
PROLOGUE
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
(Next week's Midweek Motif will be famous birthdays.)
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my vibrant imagination gets me into plenty of trouble. Looking too far ahead would bring gobbs more...
ReplyDeleteHappy Wednesday to all of you!
You speak my mind! Happy Wednesday to you, too. And thank you for caring about the children.
DeleteEvery time I complete a poem I seem to run out of stock...and then these wonderful prompts happen...Thank you Susan for the inspiration.. :) Happy Wednesday to you all..
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you came by to be inspired here today.
DeleteWell let me get to it and see what happens
ReplyDeleteHaHa ... pretty much the opposite of prescience ... but I could've predicted the fine poem that happened.
DeleteHappy Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteHi kids....the prompt happened along, right after a convenient dream. Yay! Love it when that happens.
ReplyDeleteMe too. Though it may not be coincidence ...
DeleteI got inspired by 'prologue' from 'Romeo and Juliet' ... big theme...tried to stay just with one idea... thanks, Susan for challenging us.
ReplyDeleteGood to see you, Humbird. What we can know from birth is a huge theme.
DeleteThe future is ahead of me, but unfortunately I think I know where it will go and I'm not a seer. Thanks for the challenge.
ReplyDeleteIf you are not a seer, you may be mistaken. Your poem is exquisite. May it travel far and wide.
DeleteI have a haiga written which may suit this prompt! I have linked it too. Let me know Susan. If it does not fit in with the prompt, I will have no issues de-linking:)
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan! for stopping by! It goes on and on! yes!! the foresight / prescience....and how accurate could it be? could it be so accurate that I would define my beginning and end? perhaps, a bit far fetched. thank you Susan! i ll see if i can re-visit the prompt sometime today!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your haiga immensely and think that our responses show that the poem expresses a major obstacle to prescience. Leave it, even if you keep the prompt in your dream book.
DeleteThank you, Susan for the interesting prompt. It made me think about death and the transience of life. Oh, I must add, that the images scared the hell outta me! Haha...
ReplyDeleteComing back to PU is always so wonderful...:)
Poems are amazing when they "knock our socks" off and then put them on differently! Thank you for participating.
DeleteIntriguing prompt, Susan.
ReplyDeleteMine is up at: http://purplepeninportland.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/while-sleeping/
Put it here, Purple Pen!
Deletei'm a professional psychic medium — so I'm linking to a poem from 2009 which describes one such interaction (at a Sunday market where I had a stall).
ReplyDeleteThank you, Thank you!
Deletehi sussan, i wrote a poem and fits so well with your prompt, thanks :)
ReplyDeleteIt fits, Surabhi. Please put a link on your page that would take someone here. Thank you for joining in.
DeleteThat's all, Poets! Bring the rest of your poems--these, too, if you would like--to the Poets United Poetry Pantry tomorrow. Post one original poem there that you truly love.
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