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NOT ONE BUBBLE

Blog City Prompt: I'm going to toss three titles out there for you to choose from to create your own masterpiece.. whether it be a short story, commentary or poem... Can you weave a work of art using all three titles into one? I can't wait to see where your imagination takes you. There's a bonus/surprise if you can name the authors as well.
"The Jar With the Dry Rim", "The Pope's Penis", and "The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills.

Just had time to do the research. Interesting stuff. This is more than a one-day project.

The Jar With the Dry Rim        Like this one a lot.
The mind is an ocean... I and so many worlds
are rolling there, mysterious, dimly seen!
And our bodies? Our body is a cup, floating
on the ocean; soon it will fill, and sink...
Not one bubble will show where it went
down.
The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it... don't be a jar
full of water, whose rim is always dry.
Don't be the rider who gallops all night
and never sees the horse that is beneath him.
- Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

The Pope's Penis              Well, it has shock value for sure.
It hangs deep in his robes, a delicate
clapper at the center of a bell.
It moves when he moves, a ghostly fish in a
halo of silver sweaweed, the hair
swaying in the dark and the heat -- and at night
while his eyes sleep, it stands up
in praise of God.
  -  Sharon Olds

The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills

“I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.”

― Charles Bukowski, The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
          This is the title of a very big collection of poetry.

Read with care...>>>iggy

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