Weekly Scribblings #45: https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/11/weekly-scribblings-45-artistic.html A picture prompt this week, prose or poetry inspired by one or more of three paintings. I chose two, 'Beautiful, YOU are' by Magic Love Crow, and 'Carnival Dreams' by Shelle Kennedy. 'Carnival Dreams' by Shelle Kennedy Beautiful, you are, though your thoughts are dark, and bitter. A macabre carnival of emotion battles in you. The heart you wear belies the fury of the one that beats. Your face tells. Tells of suffering, loneliness, too much despair in one so young. One still hoping. Yet not daring to hope. Hope! The red balloon you cling to. Hope! Straining skyward. 'Beautiful, YOU are' by Magic Love Crow Look outside the gates. Outside your grim carnival and watch the crows at sunset fly in
Writers' Pantry #52 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/01/writers-pantry-52-years-beginning.html I've been playing with some new, to me, poetry forms. April is the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, and my plans are A-Z of poetry forms. I like to get a head start, especially since I also participate on my other blog. This is a Golden Shovel. It was created by Terrance Hayes, an award-winning poet and professor in New York. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/terrance-hayes The "rules" are: take lines, or one line, from an existing poem take each word and use it, in order, as an end word in your new poem give credit My poem uses the words from the last line of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II), "and so stand stricken so remembering him." I had told him “yes” already, and it’s too late to change that now, so I let my words stand though I am stricken at the thought. I am so cr
That is a very unusual perspective. Deep!
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DeleteIt does remind me of gnarled fingers! Love it.
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DeleteReminds me of some elder women I know...
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Oh, it does indeed. Not mine (yet?), but my mother's were.
DeleteGorgeous haiku.
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DeleteGreat imagination, indeed they look like fingers!
ReplyDeleteI thought so the first time I looked!
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DeleteThank you so much, Colleen! :)
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