The Versesmith

Poetics: Daffy for Daffodils, Sprung in Spring   Today, dVerse offers the following prompt.     " Below you will find some names of daffodil varieties. Choose at least 3 words/phrases to use in your poem, but you may choose more. If the name is more than one word, you must use both words. There is no required form or length. Your poem does NOT have to be about daffodils or spring, and there is no restriction on form, style, or subject." From the list I chose beautiful eyes , golden dawn , love call , narcissus , silver smiles , tete-a-tete , and Thalia .  Plus the image below is by Dutch master   Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os, featuring several types of daffodils.  The last photo is my own Tete-a-Tete daffodils blooming in my herb garden.  Love calls. A little tete-a-tete with my own sweet self. Such beautiful eyes, and those silver smiles. Even the golden dawn in my own image. Enough to turn  Thalia’s head    from Apollo.   I am Narcissus, after all. ©2024 Lisa Smit

It's that time of year again!  What time?  The time bloggers around the world look forward to each year!  It's time for the Blogging From A to Z April Challenge .  Well, it's time for us to reveal our themes, the challenge starts, and ends, in April.   What is the Challenge?   The A to Z of whatever you want.  26 letters of the alphabet, 26 days of April (daily with Sundays off).  April 1st is A, the 2nd is B... so forth until Z on April 30th.  Anything goes.  Really.  Photographs.  Music.  Books.  Animals.  Postage stamps.  Recipes.  General musings.  Things you find in your house.  ANYTHING A to Z!  Click the link above to join in.  The A to Z team has chosen the theme for the challenge of Victorious Blogging, or "... hope, positivity, and living your best life blogging your best blog." My theme is A to Z Poetry .  A new poem for each day of the challenge.  Maybe the letter will signify a poetic form, a poem inspired by something starting with the letter of the

My first time joining in to John Holton's (The Sound of One Hand Typing) Writer's Workshop .   John is one of the team of the  Blogging from A to Z Challenge in April . Check it out, it's almost time!  Badge by Patty,  http://anothercookieplease.com Here are the prompts for this week’s Writer’s Workshop: Write a post based on the word  manual . Write a post in exactly 13 sentences. Tell us about a favorite childhood toy. What was the most useless class you took? Tell us about it. Which fictional character (from a book, comic book, TV show, or movie) did you want to be? Why? When did you learn that Santa Claus/the Easter Bunny/the Tooth Fairy was your parents? How did you figure it out? I've gone with #1 and #2.           My son collects manual typewriters.      They are interesting machines from a former time. Not so former as to make them “before my time!”      I took typing in high school. We were given one week on electric machines. Such progress that seemed in 1974!

 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 24  Wintering Insects Awake (March 5 – 19) Keichitsu 啓蟄 " Your syllabic poetry writing invitation is to choose a kigo word or phrase from the seasonal kigo list on the post, or you can choose from the spring category on the kigo word list links below. Share your kigo word on your pos t." It's been raining.  It's been snowing.  Then more rain.  It's muddy.  Very, very muddy.  So, what kigo phrase would be more fitting right now than Spring Mud ?  Nothing I can think of.   It was made for me considering I took the photo below just two days ago!  I wrote a h aiga . ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesday #kigo #tankatuesdaypoetrychallenge #tankatuesday24seasons #haiga #syllabicpoetry