The Awesome Blog Content Award, Courtesy of HRH ‘Nessa of the Stronghold, requires that I provide you with an entire alphabet of Me-itude in response, so in order to prevent your eyes from snapping back in your head like the cylinders in a slot machine and your brain going into hibernation, I have subdivided the alphabet into three parts. I will reiterate only the award rules–to get the rest of my response to it you should head back to Episode 1–and share the second series of letters in today’s post.
Rules of this award:
1. Pass this on to unlimited fellow bloggers.
2. Share some things about you, using the alphabet.
K is for Krumhorn
not clues in Trivial Pursuit,
but instruments from ancient days–
I’ve newly learned to sing their praise.
Light, come clear the darkness, break impenetrable night
to let in day and sanity and set the wrong aright,
to open hopeful windows wide, to raise to higher station
these wond’ring, wand’ring souls of ours through your illumination.
Mute as the grave, voiceless and weak,
I haven’t a singular word to speak
when the signal fails and the synapse strays–
but only on my worst dysphonic of days.
Night calls to me. I love the velvet
darkness of its touch, its song,
its slowing breath, the way a well-met
dream can draw me right along . . .
Ossified as I can be,
a stuck and stubborn brute am I,
unwilling and unchanging–see?
I let the whole quatrain go by–
Peculiarity is my gift! My adoration for the weird
knows few bounds–I get a lift from thinking fish could grow a beard,
from dreaming idle silly dreams of lizards singing, candy socks,
electric sofas, grey ice-creamsand giving grown-ups nasty shocks.
Q is for Quiver
Quiver full of arrows, yes? Here in my heart I quiver with glee
because in love I’m a quivering mess,’less Cupid comes to puncture me–
No, no!–the quiver, instead, should hold an armload of arrows of skill and wit
to set ye a-quiver, as though fell cold, in astonishment I had thought of it.
Art-Colored Glasses 
Congratulations!
Thanks! 🙂
You definitely deserve these awards Kathryn! Love your prose.
Geni, you are far more Sweet than Crumby! Your writing always makes me feel I’m right with you, and that’s the best kind of prose, in my book. Although you may have an unfair advantage, accompanying your texts with gorgeous, mouth-watering foods perfectly presented, including the occasional decorative addition of a certain golden girl’s tongue!
Cheers for an extra mile..
I passed you Versatile Award; Congratulations; for more details, follow this link
http://divinerhythm.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/versatile-blogger-award/
Thank you, Mira! What a generous lady you are. I’ll have to think about what to do appropriately in response to the VBA . . . more to come!
🙂
Kathryn
you’re welcome….& no comment on the other part:)
Oh… you minx!! (is that a word) You lull me with romantic verse in the letter N and then startle me out of it with Ossified!! Love this!! I can’t wait for Part RSTUV and WXYZ..
xo Smidge
I’ll take ‘minx’! [A cheeky girl, according to the Urban Dictionary.] I always thought of ‘vixen’ as an analog, but depending on whose definition you seek, it *might* coincide with minx or might also have a more shrewish aspect, to my surprise. I’ve only ever heard the latter used in its flirtatious or maybe sexy form. Go figure. So Minx it is! 😉 How’s *that* for a big digression before I give you a proper Thank You! 😀
xo!
Haha… minx or vixen.. all sound pretty sultry to me;)
Congratulations on your award and best wishes to you!
Thank you, Meg! Hope your travels are going wonderfully!!
Now, how did I know what ‘P’ was going to be? 😉
Can’t wait to read the rest!
I’d say you’re a mind reader, but I’m not sure that reading *this* Peculiar mind is a skill with which you want to be publicly credited, my darling! 🙂
You’ve certainly set the bar pretty high for future recipients of this award! Fun stuff, Kathryn, and like the others, I can’t wait to see the rest.
Mmmm, the *bar* . . . I think I *do* need a little nip after my quatre-fold labors. The rest of the alphabet awaits you. Read, then stop by for an aperitivo, signore!
I love all, but the night description best woe!
Somehow, from a fellow romantic like you that doesn’t surprise me hugely! 🙂 I’m glad you like it, Terri.
I am still giggling over your Peculiarity – you have much in common with Theodore Geisel with your penchant for the out of the ordinary quirkiness. It is one of your many charms! Now I am on pins and needles to see what “R” will tell us about you!
You make me think I should’ve just gone with ‘ARRRRR’, but I’m not sure if Piratical is an acceptable dialect for the alphabet exercise (and would it’ve been properly filed as an R word or an A word??). Maybe Mr Geisel and I were tenth cousins, twice removed. Mostly, I’m just a big ol’ fan of his. 😀
You can giggle at my peculiarity any time you like. 😀
Congrats, Kathryn! Ossified caught my attention and I love your quirkiness! Can’t wait for the next episode! 🙂 xx
Thanks, Lauren, ‘Ossified’ is of course my admission to being a stubborn brat. 😉 Part 3 is now fully operational!
I am laughing as I try to imagine a fish growing a beard. I love the rhythm of the beautiful language in this post. 😉
I definitely imagine a fish beard as having a nice seaweed-y aspect and flowing beautifully in the currents. 🙂 Come to think of it, there might be a human or two who could be improved with such a facial adornment. Hmm, must think about this!
How very exciting, congratulations and very well deserved. Loved learning more about you this way. Fun.
🙂 Mandy
Believe me, this kind of self-revelation is not only more comfortable for me but for all of you than if I opted for the sort so many celebrities and public figures choose. Nobody in their right mind wants to know *that* sort of stuff about me. (I’d say ‘except my husband’, but since he married me, clearly he’s NOT in his right mind. And that’s a good thing.) 😀