destructive beetle
over my flowers crawling
ignoring aphids
SeasonWords – Week 23 by Mark S.
Pastel Party
Dressed for a pastel party
So pretty in pink am I
Observing the other party guests
In pastels they comply
A beautiful yellow swallowtail
And an orange dragonfly…
The party decor is quite fitting
Pastel flowers in pinks, purples and blues
A bit of friendly competition
Among those wearing the loveliest hues…
The party drew to a close
I bid Farewell and off I flew
From the dull ground below
Pastel greens flashed in my view
I glimpsed two fallen Tulip Poplars
A lone Wood Sorrel peeking through
Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #367 – Party. “This weekend your challenge is to write a poem or a piece of prose in exactly: 88 words.”
Terri’s Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge – Pastels in nature
Structural Connections
precise connections
from which fine structures emerge
human creations
Park bridges connecting land over creeks…
Modern structures…
Lens-Artists Challenge #303 – Connections, hosted by Donna at windkisses.com.
Murals
skilled
hands
send us
spiraling
into a strange world
larger than life upon the wall
feet firmly planted as we journey through wonderland
unable to discern the boundary dividing fantasy from reality
W3 Prompt #110: Wea’ve Written Weekly poet of the week, Deanna, prompts us to:
- FORM: Compose a ‘Fib’ poem(created by Gregory K. Pincus), which is a six-line poem of 1,1,2,3,5,8 syllables).
- VARIATIONS:
- Write as few or as many lines as you wish, as long as your syllable count is based upon the Fibonacci Sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc.).
- You may write more than one stanza, repeating the amount of lines of your first stanza.
- VARIATIONS:
- THEME: Write about a spiral; spiral shapes in nature or art, or perhaps a more figurative or metaphorical spiral.
Sanderling
Sweet little sanderling
Over surf deftly stepping
On a beach that’s never ending
Off you go on fast little legs
Ronovan’s Ovi Poetry Challenge 51: STEPS
Sunset Dreams
Sail on sunset dreams
High on wind whipped ecstasy
Euphoric delight
Sailing deep into the night
Awaiting sunrise
Colleen’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 37
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Sunset by Gerry C & Sue W
Tome of Wisdom
Wise old owl
I come to you
dressed my best in shades of blue
A risky climb
high up a tree
with hope you will confide in me
Impart your wisdom
and I shall write
a volume full of your insight
dVerse Poetics host, Lillian, prompts us to write an ekphrastic poem based on one of four intriguing pieces of art by artist Catrin Welz-Stein.
Eternal Rest
The secrets that you once concealed
Stuffed under lid so tightly sealed
Pried open by another
Tactfully hid from our grandmother
Where did you go when you departed?
Leaving your widow so broken-hearted
Restless was your soul presumed
Unexplained sounds came from your old room
Sightings of you at the edge of the bed
Overnight guests quickly fled
Were you meant to reflect on your transgressions?
Reveal to the universe your confessions?
Your troubled spirit stirred earthbound
For years until all turned around
As you fell silent when she died
Were you simply waiting for your bride?
Did she join you in the afterworld?
Were all your secrets there unfurled?
I pray to God that she may lie
Forever with unopened eye
Unless forgiveness there be known
Through penitence you have shown
In any case that she’ll be blessed
With well deserved eternal rest
For dVerse Prosery hosted by Melissa Lemay. Melissa prompts us to “[w]rite a piece of Prosery of up to or exactly 144 words” incorporating the lines: “I pray to God that she may lie Forever with unopened eye” from Edgar Alan Poe’s “Sleeper”.
More of a poem than prose, but this is what surfaced… 😏
Snakes In a Tree
A favorite walk over a wetland at a local nature preserve.
It appears a trio of black rat snakes are collecting bridge tolls.
Out on a lark
A walk in the park
Snakes in a tree
How many there be
Perhaps they are a close family
Terri’s Sunday Stills: Great #Outdoors
Blue Bliss
Plunged into the depths
Engulfed in deep ocean blue
Free-floating bliss
Panic creeps in
Impelling a rise to the surface
Emergence from the abyss
Optimistic reach for the sky
Azure euphoria
RDP Sunday: rise hosted by drkottaway
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Blue by Sue W & Gerry C
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