Tag: free verse

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

at fifty (MLMM Monday Wordle)

Tina Stewart Brakebill

at fifty, I believed a precious chapter had begun

I lit sparklers and filled my cup

toasting

my voice ringing clear and loud

 

but by sixty

the message felt muted

too many tick tocks watched

my hope wiped by ceaseless drama

 

by seventy I hope

my cup will fill once more  

toasting

a new chapter begun again

Photo by Denisa Susca on Pexels.com

 

Today’s Monday Wordle asked us to use the following words: chapter, clear, cup, drama, felt, fifty, message, muted, precious, sparkler, watched, & wiped.

Not sure what I’ve created here. Free verse? Sad screed?

MLMM Monday Wordle #458

 

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the end, the middle, begin again

Tina Stewart Brakebill

the end comes like purple haze  

with shards of red

penetrating the deep blue

inside the middle

inky black and sparkling white

swirl above the buried blue

begin again with shards of red

the inky black burns pink

and the deep blue rises again

Photo by Steshka Croes on Pexels.com

Written for dVerse MTB and David’s W3. I’m not sure if I did either justice, but I tried!

Laura, our host, at dVerse says:

Today’s MTB prompt is poetry with a colour motif:

  • take one or more literal colours (not a fancy colour name)
  • repeatthe colour word(s) throughout the poem (e.g. refrain; anaphora, epistrophe)
  • use colour synonyms
  • employ colour with its specific meaning to the poem’s theme
  • let your colour motif(s) also become symbolic

 

Lisa, our POW, at W3 says:

Fall always feels like a season of both endings and beginnings, doesn’t it? For this week, let’s explore those transitions in a Quadrille—a 44-word poem, a form first shared with us by the wonderful d’Verse Poets Pub.

Your poem can lean into endings, beginnings, or the mix of the two.

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

a new year comes to florida

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Shooting guns.

Exploding stars.

Drunken girls scream woo!

Another downtown Saturday night?  

Or the sounds of new year’s mo(u)rn?

fireworks display during nighttime
Photo by Saeed Khokhar on Pexels.com

Thanks to Fake Flamenco’s New Years Challenge which asked us to “write about what the new year means to you.. We will write 5–7 lines of free verse for either subject.”

And to Linda Hill’s JusJotJan challenge I admit I cheated a little and used “stars” instead of constellation. The rhythm got me 😉

Visit their sites for further info and great writing. And Happy New Year y’all.