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Speaking about that Old Pond...

by Kåre เลียม Enga

Rated: 13+ · User Poll · Nature · #2251731

A poll asking readers to choose between 9 prompts based on 'pond'.

Poll Question:

Please choose which prompt intrigues you the most. Could you write a story or poem to it? Would it be scary, romantic, funny, absurd. What tickles you... or frightens you the most? Or would you prefer to just sit there under a banana tree like Basho and contemplate it's meaning?

1. Once I was immortalized when a frog jumped in startling a poet to comment on my splash. I'm an ancient pond-in-waiting now. Who will fall in and be inspired by my stench and muck?

2. I sit here like most ponds. Ignored while filling up with rain, visited by what lurks at my edges as the land begins to cry out in drought. The eyes, those doleful eyes, and tongues lolling in thirst.

3. No one visits me. But the monster in my depths is curious about dry land. And me, a Lonely Pond, intends to go with him.

4. Sally stared across the pond while loons began to croon. She wished to join them. Once a siren always a siren, her grandmother had told her under a crescent moon. She jumped in and began to swim.

5. Grubby looked at the scum covering the pond. He cleared one spot to gaze at himself in the black water's mirror. Not bad. I can go another year without bathing.

6. If he hadn't driven into the pond, accidently, on purpose, he wouldn't be stewing in the sauce now, would he?

7. The ice thickened throughout the week. By Saturday the crisp cold air drew the skates and mittens. Picken's Pond had always looked forward to this time of year. Patrick, gazing up from the depths, agreed.

8. Crack. Petra panicked as the ice threatened to give way. Who would take care of her mother? She focused on the shore of the pond, hugged her favorite tree when she reached it.

9. Waterlilies circled around the depths. The frogs lay still on their pads. Mallards flew over with reverence. All bowed to Lotus as she gathered her strength from the muck to rise above it. She was Queen of the Pond.

Poll Options:

1. Once I was immortalized when a frog jumped in startling a poet to comment on my splash. I'm an ancient pond-in-waiting
2. I sit here like most ponds. Ignored while filling up with rain, visited by what lurks at my edges as the land...
3. No one visits me. But the monster in my depths is curious about dry land. And me, a Lonely Pond, intends to go with him.
4. Sally stared across the pond while loons began to croon. She wished to join them. Once a siren always a siren...
5. Grubby looked at the scum covering the pond. He cleared one spot to gaze at himself in the black water's mirror...
6. If he hadn't driven into the pond, accidently, on purpose, he wouldn't be stewing in the sauce now...
7. The ice thickened throughout the week. By Saturday the crisp cold air drew the skates and mittens. Picken's Pond...
8. Crack. Petra panicked as the ice threatened to give way. Who would take care of her mother? She focused on the...
9. Waterlilies circled around the depths. The frogs lay still on their pads. Mallards flew over with reverence. All bowed...

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