packet says false indigo
why orange cosmos?
should I care?
in zucchini overload
keep watering plants?
who will eat?
these peppers can ripen red
why pick them still green?
impatient?
yesterday’s coffee now gone
make another pot?
call it good?
ninety in the atrium
why do I swelter?
addiction?
fridge bins full of fresh produce
why do I fast food?
weak-minded?
Quinzaine form First time using the form (each 3 lines is one poem) but I like it.
I’m today’s host for dVerse’ Open Link Night. I say:
Post any one poem you choose. Read others’ poems and comment on them if you have the urge. Enjoy!
Tao Talk 
That turned out nicely I think!
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Thanks much, Randy :)
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Beautiful colors in this one… you can taste, smell and see the summer. Wonderful!
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Thanks much, Miriam :)
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Now you need to invent a poetry that answers poetic questions :)
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Good idea, please put your pen to the task, m’dear :)
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How about a quinzaine question followed by a quinzaine answer?
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Jane gets my neurons firing
Will the smoke clear soon?
Bright blue skies <3
Howzat?
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That’s one way. I was thinking more:
We can see the brink ahead.
When we fall who will
remember?
Who will write down our mistakes?
A cynic might say
ghost writers.
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Love it!
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I’m trying to do a second one and it’s not so easy. Beginners luck, I think there.
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The quinzaine looks like a nice form to play around with – perhaps one to try at Meeting the Bar in the future. I love the use of colour and the vegetables – I went to the local gardening centre this afternoon, so your quinzane appeals to me, Lisa.
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Kim, I agree the form has potential, and I like Jane’s idea of making the 3rd line an answer? I can imagine the rainbow at the gardening center.
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Some interesting questions posed.
Happy Thursday
Much💖love
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Thank you, Dear Gillena <3
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Interesting form and questions.
You can almost make a poem from your final lines,
I like Jane’s idea, too.
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Merril, yes it is an interesting form, and she has a knack for it and what goes beyond it.
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You’re welcome. And thanks for hosting!
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My pleasure!
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This is beautiful, there’s a liveliness. I’ve never heard of this form but I like how it lends itself to chunking off smaller poems for later or telling the whole story.
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Thanks, Sassy!
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I agree with Jane and Merril!
I love this. A fun furm.
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Uhhhh… make that fun!
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Thanks, Dale!
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😊
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This is an interesting poetic form Li. Love your poem. I also had orange cosmos this year in my garden
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Nice that you also have them also :) I was pleasantly surprised. The stalks are so much more sturdy than other cosmos I’ve had. These were seeds from the seed bank.
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Mine were planted by the gardener
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You have a gardener? Nice!
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Yes, a part time person who comes for an hour every other day. People here are poor and would like part time work. So both of us are happy with the arrangement
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Sounds wonderful for both you and them. Tell them I love the cosmos :)
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Thanks a lot Li. I will.
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You’re welcome, Sadje.
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😍😍😍
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The Quinzaine form has now excited many members into suggesting adaptations to form new forms. Love your poem, Jade! Might like to try for myself after this.
Hank
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Hank thank you. I happened across it and said ok let’s give it a try. I hope you do also.
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I love it Lisa, especially the last stanza! Sounds like your garden is producing well!
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Dwight it’s doing well. Thankfully we just had a cloudburst type of rain come through so the zucchini got a good drink. How’s yours doing?
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We got a half of a shower/drizzle. The rain barrel only got half full!
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Oh wow. Aren’t you used to getting a lot more rain?
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We got a lot earlier, but not much recently. We did get enough to fill my barrels. Things are green and blooming.
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Questions most gardeners have mulled over…i like how you used the quinzaine form, Lisa!
Might make an interesting MTB prompt?
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May be it could show up on MTB. Glad it has been a hit tonight :)
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I like the collection of Quinzaine poems – the repeated form of statement and questions give a unity to the collection as well as the shared gardening theme – ace!
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So happy you enjoyed the form and how it was used :)
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Lisa, summer veggies sounds so good! You’re truly blessed with a green thumb. I like this form, and it has a nice rhythmic flow.
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Colleen, thanks. If you lived closer I’d give you some zucchinis. The tomatoes are getting bigger but no sign of red yet.
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I wish we lived closer too! I have some plans for next summer to have some large pots for a few herbs and veggies. For our neighborhood, it’s the rabbits and everything has to be where they can’t get to them.
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Raised beds and containers will help. Chicken wire does also but in a manicured subdivision they probably don’t go for chicken wire :)
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Exactly. And, my husband is disabled, so it has to be things I can tend to myself. He helps me with watering and such, but he can’t do the hard things anymore.
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Thats different with a question in each one…
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Yes it is an interesting form. Would like to use it again.
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That caught me right away… I guess there are no rules to do it by.
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There are rules. Follow the link and it shows them.
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I like it, too! And what you’ve done with it.❤️🙏🏼
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Thanks, Melissa :)
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As I have mentioned I love how you share new and complex forms with us. Going to give this one a try soon. Each of these little poems made me smile. The last one is my favorite! Clever.
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Helen, I am delighted you are going to give the form a try. So glad you liked my offerings, thanks :)
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Questions, questions, questions – life seems to throw so many at us every day and we oftentimes get all-consumed with them. Once you step back and look at them, suddenly, you realize most of the stuff we worry about is not important or only marginally important. It’s kind of amazing how much we tend to worry over nothing! Sadly, it oftentimes takes a “bad event” to put things into perspective.
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Very well-said, Christian! Wouldn’t add a thing.
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Beautiful flower. One that I should be content with just looking at, but I want to touch it and perhaps, pluck a few petals. I wonder what that says about me. 😁
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Cute comment, Gia. It looks enough like a daisy that you probably could ask it questions. Happy you like the flowers. I expected purple “false indigo” which is what the packet said, but these cosmos are so pretty!
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I think you’re right. 😁 I also like the sound of purple ‘false indigo.’
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I like the cosmos but I was looking for false indigo and yes wouldn’t that be a good name for band :)
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As for the band name, I see it and I hear it. 😊🎶
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