ext_158887 ([identity profile] seta-suzume.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 31_days2012-01-25 10:00 am
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Prompts: February 2012: Fire and Ice

Here are February's prompts, courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] nagaina_ryuuoh!

And as, you'll see, they have a lovely theme:

February 1: The Earth is frozen solid, like a heart that will not love

February 2: My love a beacon in the night

February 3: O, for a muse of fire!

February 4: A candle burned on the table

February 5: Snowflakes are kisses from heaven

February 6: As seek to quench the fire of love with words

February 7: ...Some say in ice

February 8: Words are only painted fire

February 9: Only ice in the blood

February 10: Fire is never a gentle master

February 11: In the ice of its own indifference

February 12: Some say the world will end in fire

February 13: Love is the fire of life -- consuming, purifying.

February 14: Love is a friendship caught on fire.

February 15: All things, oh priests, are on fire...

February 16: Thou art all ice -- thy kindness freezes

February 17: It is not light we need, but fire

February 18: When walking on thin ice, you may as well dance

February 19: Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light

February 20: Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time

February 21: In our youth our hearts were touched with fire

February 22: You are ice and the fire of your touch burns my hands like
snow

February 23: Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool

February 24: Cruel as winter and cold as the snow

February 25: My candle burns at both ends

February 26: So comes snow after fire

February 27: Do not shine. Do not seek to shine. Burn.

February 28: Teach me to forget myself, as melted snow forgets its life

February 29: ...To usher in the spring


1 & 29. Lyrics from Through the Bitter Frost and Snow by Susan McKeown
and Lindsey Horner.
2. Lyrics, Winter Song.
3, 6, 16. Shakespeare
4. Boris Pasternak, Winter Night.
7 & 12. Robert Frost, Fire and Ice.
8. Mark Twain.
9. Marge Piercy, The Weight.
11. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
14. Bruce Lee. Yes, that Bruce Lee. Seriously.
15. Gautama Siddharta, Buddha.
17. Frederick Douglass.
19. Seneca.
20 & 23. Ovid.
21. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
22. Amy Lowell.
24. Lewis Bates.
25. Edna St. Vincent Millay.
26. JRR Tolkien.
27. Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi.
28. William Alexander.