Tanka Tuesday Ekphrastic — Dearest Dorr

© Lisa Fox, Felt Mansion Early mornings I look from my bedroom window, the pond’s still surface a mirror that waits. I walk along the edge. My fingers remember being dirty, planting the urns, again. Aster and marigold, bright in the summer sun, when the world was full of colored perfume. In green brocade, I…

dVerse — alliteration (assonance & consonance) — airborne

her wings opened slowly silent creaks needing oil midday sunset flames aglow black-framed confident flaps to fluttering now lifts, carried sideways tilting madly airborne Bjorn is today’s host of dVerse.  Bjorn says: Today I would like you to try using different types of assonance and consonance in any poem of your choice. Try to listen…

Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip — Games People Play

Games People Play games played by rules? design? join by choice? unknowing? exulting? losing? suffering? toy parts Sarah is the host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Saturday Mix.  Sarah says: [T]his week, I want you to write on a topic of your choice, using the challenge format of your preference. Choose one, or two, or all! It’s…

dVerse — 3 cinquains — Jung’s iceberg

image link Merril is the host of dVerse today. Merril says: For this poetics prompt, I want you to write a poem about theory or theories–how we make sense of the natural world, our bodies, space, or whatever. You can write in general terms or you can write about a specific theory, even something that’s…

Cinquain on the Pencil

image link and also a link to, “The Surprising History of the Pencil” at brainpickings, by Maria Popova Fandango’s One-Word Challenge is pencil . My younger son is both a math whiz (he got it from his dad) and an artist who loves his pencils.  I never thought I’d write a poem about a pencil,…

Masters of all

image link Fandango’s FOWC today is property.  I asked myself when in history did property become owned and how did it come about.  Even today, many cultures do not believe in property ownership.  Today’s offering is a cinquain form. Gaia Man’s property? From revered to enslaved Her giving spirit is distressed Chattel FOWC — property