Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

reflections on a creative block

alone with my thoughts 

blank ripples on the white space

the canvas whispers

sweet nothings to nobody 

my solitude unbroken

Claude Monet. The Studio Boat (Le Bateau-atelier), 1876, Oil on canvas.

Today’s challenge from dVerse asks us to do either of the below:

  1. You may write an ekphrastic poem inspired by Claude Monet’s “The Studio Boat.” Your poem does not need to include anything about reflecting or reflections, but it can. AND/OR
  2. You may write a poem on reflection, whatever that means to you—self-reflection, reflection on time’s passing, a reflection in a pool of water, etc.

I’ve been struggling with a bit of writers/creative block so this is my reflection on that unsettling feeling.

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Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall

I must vent, he roared.

Cracking open the window,  

he cried as he fell:

What about the price of eggs!

Now, he’s the one cracked open.   

Today’s three words for pensitivity’s challenge are:
UPLIFT
VENT
WINDOW

Sadly, I could find no uplift. Maybe tomorrow.

 

Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

Ballad of an Early Voter

nervous, feeling fear

touch the screen, colour the box

still the noise bangs on    

“I don’t care, do you”? “Trust me!”

comfort your fear, use your spark   

photography of barrel wave
Photo by Emiliano Arano on Pexels.com

 

For this week’s Wordle Challenge, I managed to create a clumsy tanka that touched on my fear and use all the words: fear, noise, bang, colour, spark, use, touch, care, comfort, trust, feeling, nervous.