A Notion Missed

Today is the summit against slogans.
From Venezuela to Tuvalu, supporters sprang to the fight.
Shattered windshields were blanketed

with green banners molded from living plants.
But the tiny frosted ribbons between living and signifying,
saddled with their idealized witnesses,

are tried and cut by the steady forces of craft and myth,
their frozen emitters flooded with the chaos of compromise.
Time for lunch.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Iran's opposition movement mourns cleric
Some Climate Experts Seek Alternative to U.N. Process
Say hello to winter

Fear of Fear

above-average worriers predicted fresh fears
minarets on mosques; cantons and companies
stir tension

something catastrophic how the fear of fear
wins the takeover battle
controlling leaders, workers, neighbors

chocolate giant's Swiss Alpine
braced for backlash
still no guarantees for a low-key response.

-- Cindy Underhill

Anxiety fear ‘puts above-average worriers at depression risk’
Cadbury jobs fear: going
Muslim Leaders Condemn Swiss Ban

Contrast Prize Assembled

the a the minarets on those boycotts astronomy of
the a the telescope by heavy vengeance wonders below
endangered to genuine given envy

the a the midst over mutual outlaw referendum in
the dual facing of in experimental eroding
threatened to remembered stain vistas

the Swiss nesting in of physico-mathematico nesting
higher which converse Netherlands the dearly
other which lecture lectures the also

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets
Global warming treaty would be major success
The Royal Society: Dilettantes to DNA via cuckoos and kites

Budget Space Pledge

Remember our November
commitment? Spacey on futures, we
fueled the sentimental economy:

“Carbon-based Earth is home
to the Thanksgiving mission.”
When our volume rituals emit euros,

kick the global benchmarks.
Even Kennedy would buy an orbital
port on signs of holiday crisis.

-- Lance Newman

US shoppers hit Black Friday sales, budgets pared
European Union carbon boosted by China, U.S. pledges
Space shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth

New Vivid Version

Pictures from the air
bring worm to life
show security details

More riff-raff
can act like botnets
and provide crucial intelligence

A second worm
has been unearthed
Hit the company phone

-- Rupert M Loydell

Spotify adds a Symbian version
Vivid WWII pictures from the air bring war to life
New iPhone worm can act like botnet say experts

U2 Victims' Claims

The 26-year-old rumour has finally come true
Bono and co have been slated
Police blamed a freak storm

Dozens of people feared lost at the bottom
rejected claims of overcrowding
The biggest band in the world need to be checked

There are even more surprises in the pipeline
Residents and business owners are being allowed
back to piece together the Pyramid stage

-- Rupert M Loydell

Flood victims allowed back home
Indonesian ferry captain rejects overcrowding claims
U2 to headline Glastonbury 2010

The Moon Hearse

All agreeing agreement: articles binding
Captured centaur, change, conference coverage
Data deposits: decided, determined, difficult, down

Fell finally finding frozen goodbye
Hearse hours hundreds impacted instead
Laden launch leaders less, missed mission

Mourners, myself, pair politically, promised process
Released, scheduled soldier street
The team today viewing water

-- Scott Rettberg

World Leaders Agree to Delay a Deal on Climate Change
Water On The Moon: LCROSS Kicks Ice!
Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood

Unlike A Barrier

The handwritten scale of the biggest action,
covering your building and washing your walls,
hoping to block the streets of irony,

to call or keep that hoping canyon
where a dozen whistles fall; where slow coughs chanted
in a marriage of signs and sneezes.

Meanwhile in 10,000 streets, fans waiting to be waved,
the long springs triggered from palm to hands;
people will be patient eventually.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Patience urged for Hawaii's flu vaccine
Gay rights activists rally to protest Maine vote
New Berlin wall blocks fans from celebrating freedom at U2 gig

Big H1N1 Assault

The virus is known to have mutated
Who Infected, the United States in a large outbreak
Also on the rise more serious infections and deaths

That towering, yellow-feathered, 6-year-old
comes to his senses with the
“Word on the Street,”

Love
“I realised that my decision
Could result in” America getting killed

-- Becky Schomberg

H1N1 to cause more deaths in northern winter – WHO
Sesame Street still Big Bird’s nest after 40 years
Rihanna warning over Brown attack

Greenhouse Baby Slide

Minorities pushed the panel that
Would set up a cap-and-trade system but
Panel rules blocked senators

The surrounding agents in baby's box
While she was napping
Proved time was against us

They fell with the filing figure
It dropped off those rolls into extended benefits
But it's still not definitive

-- Cody Saunders

Senate Democrats move greenhouse gas bill along without GOP
Fla. baby missing for 5 days found alive under bed
Unemployment claims slide

Chuck of Death

Baseball rapist game face
Vader was dangerous
Said the Yankees take the penalty for death

Will Norris? A Star? War was at a baseball game
Chuck who has a dangerous face held penalty
Into the star of Vader

Face Vader's power of Death, death could Be important
Awesome death bodies Norris?
Death was timeless if a game was dangerous

-- Jose Flores

The Yanks take down the Phillies in game 4
11 bodies found a rapist's horror home
Dark matter "wrecking ball" may have hit Milky Way

Amateur Obama Rules

The government’s gay residents in Tehran
        on the decision of violence:
Un-expectedly sizable in January, so the president rejected
Don’t recognize the boisterous Patchwork

"He never watched them when he was running
We don't know if the U.S. Embassy did not watch same-sex
        couples breakdown
marry in a closely fought antigovernment grant

Iranian chaos in the White House
Allowing unexpectedly high turnouts
state-by-state we don't recognize

--Sabrina Akhtar

Iranian Opposition Protesters Hijack Government Rally
Democrats downplay election losses as GOP celebrates
Maine Rejects Same-Sex Marriage

Savvy Dark Matter Horror

Long for the days
Goddess do you sacrifice?
Snagged by the Golden

Ming the Merciless,
Invisible wrecking ball
Make a swirl of newborn stars

Decomposed skull
Your dangerous threat
Has ankles shackled

-- Cheyanna Wolf

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin: a couple of savvy insiders
Dark matter "wrecking ball" may have hit Milky Way
First Victim in Cleveland House of Horrors Identified

(tracing the fringes)

where
Blue fires
trace the disappeared

where
a section
of spine erupted

along
the eastern
tide of elsewhere

-- Michael Leong

Brush Fires Threatening Homes in California
Police: Lake search finds no trace of ND students
In diverse New Jersey district, voters' spirits lifted

The Planet Cheers

The Arctic Sea Ice Saver coupon is to be distributed
in newspapers everywhere! And it will be packaged in
a whole catalogue of consumer products, including

wristwatches, electronics, even a limited-edition limo.
Without the coupon, global warming will ensure
the loss of all summertime Arctic sea ice.

Actually, the coupon probably will not make a difference.
But it's designed to draw awareness to the "brand."
What a great marketing deal!

-- Glenn R. Frantz

The Dark Side of Corporations' Cause-Marketing
As ice melts, species will die and new territorial fights emerge
Obama visits New Orleans

Which Lull Absorbs

there is a daily ocean book, and up,
engaging the homes in their earth foundation,
awaiting each other and awaiting,

hugging the scripted mess in their own pink month,
and what month would I make them make,
by generous coating more than daily currents

and recent moments yet than this charter is always,
where everywhere it's greeted more and mostly,
it's little trouble that can dare of anyone

-- Glenn R. Frantz

The Dark Side of Corporations' Cause-Marketing
Obama visits New Orleans
As ice melts, species will die and new territorial fights emerge

Thousands of people
are increasingly
conscious

of bodies &
of roads &
of buildings,

& still more
people are reaching
through the deep night.

-- Imbruglia Rushlow

From students to CEOs, Irish relief at "Yes" vote
Chance of more survivors from Indonesia quake dims
Obama links job growth to health care proposal

a close-to-final release

Polanski
will receive
a Public Woody

in
a Roman
greenhouse to celebrate

a
lifetime of
releasing seminal emissions

-- Michael Leong

Britney Spears Releases New Single '3'
Bill Targets 20 Percent Reduction in Emissions
Release Polanski, demands petition

Gravity Formed Hopes

and spotted ice how that
bottle less sure the boosts a sheet to
and airless microscopic that that

dirt flight much the flow a margins of
circling ice it's is their because rocks
midway thinner lead the yield a perimeter to

shedding warm it's is their how glaciers
or granted granted what because
melting seaward they're is their what thought

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Rather Than Melt, some Glaciers Race to the Sea
Ice on Mars more extensive than thought
Water on the moon stirs hopes for base

the other port

                      [for M. NourbeSe Philip]

in
the clandestine
Library of water

the
investigator dismantled
the English authorities

and
found fractures
of undocumented bone

-- Michael Leong

Amgen Bone Drug Helped More Than Zometa
With Scuffles, Police Remove Migrants From French Camp
Detroit cop shoots wife, himself in Canton

Being Another Body

in
the "Dirty"
street, the "Ghost"

had
played the
film for years

until
memory was
"off the record"

-- Michael Leong

Yale student's killing wasn't random, police say
Obama and Kanye West: It's hard to be 'off the record'
Patrick Swayze: the image dignity, decency and defiance

Luckillip Harly

Luckillip Harly - father of short cut victims
and his son were sentenced to each other
but the moments made his viewer's eye

away. Luckily, he loves to eat too early!
He was born in Different Houses. Can’t
give advice—unless it’s about Butt Kicking.

He kicks my primary experienced relationship,
loves to hug my safe-sex sisters food features
And - at least for now - we both love basketball.

sven staelens

Ethiopia - Secrets of Happy Couples (in 100 Words or Less)
Hitler safe-sex ad pulled from YouTube
'He should have been given life'

His Sketches Continued

He
writes in
a concentric book:

"We
might soon
tattoo another page

with
an image
of the night."

-- Michael Leong

Rawabi, the new Palestinian city on the West Bank
Blogging Blago's book -- Chapter Seven
HTC's 'Tattoo' Phone Packs Android

Big H1N1 Party!

Baby, its a party!
They're all downtown
with Joe the Plumber.

The contaminated water
from the pond
is for tea.

Now they all
have swine flu.
Baby, its a party!

-- Steve Kemple

France Kisses Goodbye to 'La Bise' Amid H1N1 Fears
Thousands gather in Brighton for tea party protest
Big Oil’s Stain in the Amazon

Lax Gestures Jarred

The construction deputies have signed their new building
with projections of fire. Beyond burning,
they continue as a warning prelude over the phone.

They must have expected to be asleep.
But then there would have to have been pajamas.
The pillows freeze. Their agreement is unaffected.

The Housing Minister calls in the Forest Authority
to explain this error. They couldn't have automated
what they supposedly expected to stop.

--Glenn R Frantz

Vick signing hasn't bitten Eagles - so far
Israel to Approve Flurry of West Bank Building
False alarms compound the misery of L.A.'s wildfires