The Wordsmith's Forge

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, August 2, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "unexpected SCIENCE ensues." I'll be soliciting ideas for scientists, assistants, random bystanders, curious people, first responders, robots, aliens, other explorers, *frobbing, experimenting, inventing, reading, exploring, goofing off, crossing the streams, working the problem, garages, science fairs, laboratories, classrooms, libraries, secret lairs, kitchens, outer space, starships, alien planets, theories, science kits, lectures, lab equipment, tool kits, pop bottles, time machines, and poetic forms in particular.

*I've only heard "frobbing" used as "broad motions upon a device to determine what the components do," which is not the "aimless manipulation" described in the sources I could find, although they do match it with "twiddle" and "tweak" as intermediate and fine manipulation.

I have a linkback poem, "Changing Relations" (19 verses, The Moon Door). 

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week.  (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts.  I am now.)  Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog. 

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Today we picked up sticks in the backforty part of the yard.

I also stopped to watch the honeybees to-ing and fro-ing in front of their hive.  :D 

Round two: picked a handful of blackberries.

Two new flowers are blooming in the prairie garden.  One is a black-eyed susan.  The other I don't recognize: very tall with large jagged leaves and small yellow daisylike flowers at the top.  It might be a cup plant.

This poem is spillover from the July 5, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from the Duchess via technoshaman. It also fills the "weather" square in my 4-19-16 card for the genprompt_bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by the general fund, based on an audience poll. It belongs to The Ocracies series.

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Thanks to an audience poll, there are 22 new verses in "Bearers of Witness with Justice."  This covers the remaining part of telepathic cluewhacking, followed by Irene's idea of how to help the whales relax.

Here's a look at how history can predict the future.  It's not true that "nobody" ever sees it coming.  Somebody always does. The problem is that the people who can't see the obvious ignore the ones who can.  By obvious, I don't mean that an individual situation looks obvious; it's often obscure.  I mean that the pattern  is obvious, because human history contains many cycles, which makes it very predictable in certain ways.  So when you have studied history and you know the patterns of it, and you start seeing the early moves of a cycle, you know with pretty high accuracy what is going to come next.  If you are a sane person, you will try warning others, and they will either ignore you or punish you.

Welcome to the Cassandra club.  >_<

This poem is spillover from the July 19, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from chanter_greenie. It has been sponsored by LJ user Ng_moonmoth. This poem belongs to the series An Army of One.

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DW user Redsixwing just dropped $20 into the general fund.  \o/  Everyone is eligible to vote in this poll. I will keep it open until at least Tuesday midday. If there's a clear answer then, I'll close it. Otherwise I may keep it open a little longer.

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