A Rainbow Harvest

-

 I LOVE the prompt for this week's Tanka Tuesday No. 251, #Taste the Rainbow!   

 Write a butterfly cinquain (2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2) and include a color. Remember, colors can be a metaphor for feelings such as someone’s blue when they are sad. Sometimes when we mention a particular flower’s name, it brings the color of the flower to mind. The butterfly cinquain below is a rainbow of flower colors with only one color mentioned. Colors are a great way to show vivid imagery in your poetry.

Hoskins-Barger

the ripe

red tomatoes

 plucked sun-warm off the vine

 never made it to the kitchen

 juice drips

 branches sagging under their weight

 a bumper crop this year

 fat blueberries

 juice drips


©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

Draper
Mashenka

 

Comments

  1. WildChild47November 11, 2021 at 6:46 AM

    lovely and definitely evocative .... this fleshes out the moment of the picking .... and how wonderfully satisfying it is :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. LisaNovember 13, 2021 at 1:56 PM

      Thank you! It's exciting to pick the first ripe blueberry. And home grown tomatoes are so unlike the kind at the stores.

      Delete
  2. LisaNovember 13, 2021 at 1:54 PM

    This year was a pretty miserable one for both tomatoes and blueberries. A lot of blueberries can be grown in big containers.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Gwen PlanoNovember 15, 2021 at 5:28 AM

    Lovely imagery! 😊

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Crow and Moon - Five Very Brief Poems

-
Image
Writers' Pantry #72   photo prompt: The Sunday Muse #162     Crow, or idea of Crow. Moon's interpretation. Crow admires. Crow-in-moon admires back. a moon a crow my soul is filled   Crow and Moon meet in reflection, their own counsel to keep.  Crow, speak to me, tell me secrets of the moon. ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved
Read more

A - Alphabet Haiku

-
It's April 1st, and time to start the 26 day alphabet countdown.  Every day, with Sundays off, I'll be posting a poem relating to that day's letter.  It may be a form (such as this one for A), a title, a subject, something to do with a prompt.  I fully admit, some will be better than others.  There is still time for you to join in.  www.a-to-zchallenge.com Here we go!  A - Alphabet Haiku  Alphabet haiku is an invented form created by Beatrice Evans.   Invented forms are new poetic structures that do not necessarily follow traditional or established "rules."  Alphabet haiku follows the traditional haiku syllable count of 5/7/5.  The only change required is each word begins with the same letter.   Wet windblown wastelands. Weary white winter weather. Wake, wonderous warmth! ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  F will be another A poetry form, the American Sentence.  
Read more

Taco-Mania

-
Image
 For the inaugural Friday Writings at Poets and Storytellers United (no more Writer's Pantry or Weekly Scribblings, they've been melded into one with an optional prompt), I went with the prompt, albeit quite unremarkably!  A haibun, but not.  In other words, a paragraph and a 5/7/5 that is not a haiku.  Nor is it a senryu.  So, it's that "everything else" form zappai!  Can it still be called a haibun then?  🤷   Also, the first Tuesday of the month over at Tanka Tuesday is Poet's Choice.  My choice is a... um... prose/zappai, of the Taco Tuesday sort! Friday Writings prompt : "...write poetry or prose about food: cooking it, eating it, sharing it, craving it, dreaming of it … the choice is yours."  I like tacos as much as the next person does. They’re really a perfect food, completely customizable.   Beef or chicken, both or neither.   Pile on the veggies and cheese, or leave them naked.    Sour cream with a side of chips and salsa.   Or chips an
Read more