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Submitted to Jingle’s Poetry Potluck:
http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/ where this week’s theme is Lies, Deceptions, Misrepresentations.
Deception
Spider webs masquerade
as snow-laden branches
on a dead birch
in July.
Victoria C. Slotto, Author
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Victoria C. Slotto, Author 
. . . and I love it again. Bravo!
Happy days, Victoria!
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splendid!! 🙂
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wow – the imagination digs deep within the fewness of the words!
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Excellent.
This is an example of just what can be done with limited words.
Bravo
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Love your twist on the theme! There are some spider webs masquerading as rays of sunshine in my yard right now. LOL.
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I like your haiku. Here’s what I did with deception: Insincere Limerick.
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ooo very nice. picturesque!
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Great image! brilliant words.
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Very good play on the whole meaning of deception.
JP
http://tasithoughts.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/angel-wings-and-forked-tongues/
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I’ve seen this sort of deception before. Nicely shown.
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Great image, the web we weave when we practice to deceive. Even in nature.
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Hmm interesting, how do we define deception?
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This is a lovely deception. 🙂
Here’s mine:
http://got-2-write.blogspot.com/2011/03/wounded.html
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Thank you for planting a joyful thought in my mind. Perhaps ALL is a masquerade (:
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Now that is REALLY deceptive!! The metaphor is simply fantastic, Victoria! Brilliant, in fact!
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Yours is utterly delightful Nice change from most of what I read, as well as what I posted:
http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2010/05/19/dysfunction/
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fabulous image and a great “deception” idea! love it!
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Fabulous image in your words!
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Deception is all over the town this week … short and right to the point! Check your e-mail … Regards and happy day!
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Yes it does.
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Unique yet befitting expression !
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Echoing the others here….some things are not what they seem.
Beautiful telling in just a few well-chosed words. Love the complexity hidden in the simplicity.
Thanks for sharing.
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Wonderful analogy–looks are deceiving. I love your poem and the photo illustrates it so well.
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Clever write.
Some things are not what they seem 😉
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Totally relevant, brilliantly concise, skilfully executed.
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lovely haiku victoria and thank you for sharing.. here’s mine.. http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/paper-scribbles/
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Wow, evocative!
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Telling it through a subtle comparison… So nice!
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I’m just floored by this one..what a trap..brilliant!!
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Wow,
“masquerade
as snow-laden branches”
amazingly picturesqe
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this is mind blowing victoria, very beautiful description of deception. deadly deception.
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This was great. Reminded me of a somewhat similar experience where the snow on a cherry tree had clung, and resembled flowers blooming… like a pre-spring rehearsal.
Enjoying your blog… and, looking forward to reading more here.
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So true! And the web trapped me…
To untangling! 🙂
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Very nice
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Very clever. Well done. It does look like that too.
Happy Potluck! 🙂
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Ooh, I Like this. Nice one.
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true,
compact and vivid capture of deception in nature.
A++
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Nice….many things are deceptive upon first glance–mostly people.
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