Ori ga me.
Fold me as you will;
crease my edges,
point my corners.
Pretty pony?
Salt box fortune teller?
Dragon? Saint?
How shall you bend
and turn me?
Yet I’m paper,
designed for recycle
once binned; or ash
if a match set to.
top image link for “Blade Runner Unicorn”
De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De says:
write a poem of exactly 44 words, not including title, using the word fold.
Tao Talk 
It is amazing what a paper can do or what you can do with a paper, yet it will easily be gone.
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Absolutely and well-said.
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I used to love origami and gave my grandson a book of origami for children with special coloured paper in it. Your quadrille is a paper folder’s delight!
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Kim, thanks much. I’ve dabbled in it but my mind can only go so far lol.
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I have one of those and I make them with the kids. I’m awful at it!😂
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:) Fun activity to do with the kids.
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Niiiiiiice. I adore the word origami, and LOVE how you’ve played with it here!
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Thanks, De! I enjoyed writing this very much.
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superb shapes you made here especially “Salt box fortune teller” and a clever use of fold (not least because you illustrated with that most telling Blade runner unicorn!)
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Laura, thanks much. Glad you enjoyed my play.
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I love origami. I just looked up “salt box fortune teller”, is that what those things have been called all along!? Mind. Blown.🤯
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I didn’t know that’s what they were until I saw one in an origami book. We used to have a blast with those things as kids.
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Me, too! Now I can have fun with them with my kids.😄
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Very clever! I love this one.
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Jane I’m glad it pleases you. Thanks :)
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:)
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I love how you did this one–ori ga me. All the shapes, and such a cool image, too!
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Thank you, Merril, and happy you enjoyed it :)
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You’re welcome, Lisa. I did!😊
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I love your perspective on life. Bin or Flame… nice metaphor… Origami
Is a great use of the prompt. Well done, Lisa.
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Dwight, thank you :) I started writing this longhand last night and tweaked it a bit to get it right.
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Can’t get any more folded than origami.
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:) Being lovestruck is close!
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Ha ha. You are right!
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Origami is the perfect theme for such a prompt! Reminded me of when my kids were little and they loved to make them. I enjoyed your clever take!
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Thanks much, Jennifer :)
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Love this first stanza. Concisely arranged to reflect the precision of origami.
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Ali, I love your comment, thank you <3
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This made me smile. I just found an origami book in a box today. A puzzle out of paper. (K)
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Happy to make you smile, and you finding an origami book in a box today is double peachy :)
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Nicely done poem.
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Arcadia Maria, thanks much.
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I love what you did with this, Lisa. Ephemeral, this art form can be.
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::giggling:: I had a blast with it. Thanks, Dale!
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Glad you did!
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Oh the endless folds that are possible. Transformative. Love this and the tune. Thanks, Lisa.
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K thanks much, my friend.
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Fun poem (and song). And it’s pretty amazing what you can do by folding paper!
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Yes it is. I actually love paper more for books and collage but folding it is cool also.
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How wonderfully creative of you to head straight for origami! Love your quadrille.
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Helen, thank you so much.
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What a fun poem, Lisa! I felt like I was folding the origami with you.
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Thank you, Miriam.
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Love this very cleverly written poem
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Sadje, thank you.
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You’re most welcome my dear friend
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Nice play on the word. Luv origami but there are some intricate folds that can be very frustrating😊
Much💛love
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Gillena, I know I’ve seen origami on your haiga before. Seems like a good way to distract the mind. Thank you. P.S. I’m continuing to try to find a way to comment on your posts, but so far no success. I’ve tried signing out and back in, using different browsers, signing in and out of blogger, clearing cache, etc. Know that I’m reading your poems and enjoying them :) <3
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Good word play all the way around. I like that art…I’ve seen it used in the sixties a lot.
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Thank you, Max. I was looking for just the quote to go under an origami image, but then I saw this and knew it was perfect. I remember that art.
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I do also…I took a few graphic art classes and I remember going over that.
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Another piece of the Max Mystery unveiled!
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lol…I went to college to be a graphic artist…after that I realized that I enjoyed trouble shooting at the place I got a job at more than the graphic stuff…plus it paid more.
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“knowing how way leads on to way”… I can see where that could happen. Do you ever do any graphic design now for fun? Something must have led you to choose it first as a field of study?
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I didnt’ know what I wanted to do…but I loved Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop…I can’t draw at all…so dont’ think that but I was good at the Adobe projects. I would retouch old photos and love it….and make pamplets and small books…put them together with Adobe Pagemaker.
Sometimes I do get into Illustrator and mess around…and relearn again lol.
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Sounds like a good skill to have.
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I enjoyed this very much.
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Thank you, Chris!
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wonderfully rendered personification, Lisa <3
Much love,
David
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David, glad you enjoyed it :)
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This is so clever, Lisa!
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Glad you like it, Sara :)
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