The Versesmith

Poets and Storytellers United Friday Writings #188  Rather than the optional prompt, I've gone with a triolet .   The summer days are long this year. Our garden planted dry as bone. With scorching sun, the skies are clear. The summer days are long, this year I miss you more than last, my dear. I tend our garden all alone. The summer days are long, this year our garden planted dry as bone. ©2025 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  

R - Rhymes A prompt from a quote found on the Bibliomancy Oracle .  Click the button and you will receive an answer to your question or concern!  All in fun of course.    I got a few good quotes to work with, this one being from  “ The Wages of Pascal ” by Charles Bernstein No doubt these rhymes annoy you.   I have come across people who insist poems must rhyme, and this quote reminded me of them, and how wrong they are! No doubt these rhymes annoy you. They annoy me as well. As do those who believe it’s not poetry at all, if it does not rhyme. ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved 

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.  

 I am honored to have one of my haiku accepted for publication on Pure Haiku.  The theme was this image prompt.  The link to Pure Haiku became live today, and the haiku is below. https://purehaiku.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/2-9/ credit: Elisa Ang 2 – 9 the gods are absent freezing snow falls with no check the shrines all empty © Lisa Smith Nelson 2024 The gods being absent, and the shrines empty, refer to the Japanese season of early winter (in November), and the kigo phrase " the gods are absent ."  This is the season after the harvest when the Japanese gods have finished their duties and have left the shrines for a well deserved rest.  They gather to celebrate at the Grand Shrine of Izumo, one of the most important and ancient of the Japanese shrines, leaving all the others empty. 

  Tanka Tuesday No. 281 Today's ekphrasic prompt comes from Willow Willer .  My choice of syllabic form is a reverse nonet. ©Willow Willers Let's travel together, run off alone, take the Eurostar. Meet me at the station, you know just where I will be, standing below The Meeting Place at London St. Pancras Station.   ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesday #syllabicpoetry #syllabicpoem #nonet #reversenonet #poetryform #ekphrasis #ekphrasticpoetry #ekphrasticpoem #St.PancrasStation