Sunday 28 August 2011

Umbrella Sucide?

Many clear raindrops
fall onto dead umbrella.
Blood drips from its spokes.


I'm afraid the prompt on this week's Mapie Tales set my warped sense of humour in motion! 
Sorry, Tess!
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21 comments:

  1. Friko28 August 2011 at 20:58

    Cad, Cad, always so bloodthirsty.

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  2. Maxwell Mead Williams Robinson Barry28 August 2011 at 21:22

    this is powerful!

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  3. the cello strings28 August 2011 at 21:23

    simple words.
    amazing tale.
    well done.

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  4. Anonymous28 August 2011 at 21:40

    killed by the wind.
    washed to the sea by rain.
    Dead red just the same.
    rel

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  5. Maggie28 August 2011 at 22:56

    Oh, so many umbrellas I have buried.

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  6. Tess Kincaid28 August 2011 at 23:25

    I love the notion of a dead umbrella.

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  7. Doctor FTSE29 August 2011 at 07:06

    A neat haiku . . AND . . it opens an interesting philosophical debate, because c'est une image d'un parapluie, jawohl!

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  8. Cad29 August 2011 at 07:25

    Dr FTSE - as parapluie translates literally as 'against the rain' in the sense of guarding against it, and a dead (broken) umbrella could not guard one from anything, I'd say the statement in the illustration holds true. 'Ceci n'est pas un parapluie.'
    Though I also understand it is only an image, not a real umbrella anyway...trust you to set my mind in more of a tiswas than it is anyway!
    (I should have mentioned the image came from Google - I only added the red bits!)
    Now I shall retire to my shed to ponder the imponderables of life and umbrellas...

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  9. Mrs.Trellis29 August 2011 at 08:21

    Never mind the philosophical wrangling, you two. Is it not "UNE parapluie"?
    French nouns ending in "e" are feminine, n'est ce pas?

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  10. Cad29 August 2011 at 08:41

    Beloved- there are always exceptions to any rule as any fule do kno...

    umbrella /ʌmˈbrelə/ noun parapluie m;

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  11. Mary29 August 2011 at 11:40

    Your sense of humor serves you well!

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  12. Brian Miller29 August 2011 at 16:50

    yikes dude...maybe you should have not taken it to run into the house leaving her in the car...just saying...

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  13. Brigid O'Connor29 August 2011 at 18:32

    Such a fun one, I love your marital bilingual bickering!

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  14. Stafford Ray29 August 2011 at 19:52

    Thanks for the explanation. I wondered after hearing an angry woman say, in a rain storm while holding a twisted mess of wires and rag; "Bloody umbrella!"

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  15. Berowne29 August 2011 at 22:33

    Very sanguine philosophy... :-)

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  16. hyperCRYPTICal30 August 2011 at 10:38

    Bloody clever!

    Anna :o]

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  17. Anonymous30 August 2011 at 15:51

    I've missed you two!

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  18. Cad31 August 2011 at 16:56

    Jane Healy - as you see, we continue sparing...

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  19. Paul Andrew Russell31 August 2011 at 20:52

    An interesting and creative take on the prompt. I like it.

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  20. Arnab Majumdar31 August 2011 at 23:02

    The picture fits perfectly.

    I've read quite a few sinister twists with regards to this particular prompt - but none of them come close to being quite as sinister as this one! I mean that in a good way... :)

    Cheers,
    Arnab Majumdar on SribbleFest.com

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  21. Trellissimo1 September 2011 at 13:44

    Are you having a bad day, Cad? You're not usually so macabre...

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