Laura Boomsbury is hosting D'Verse Poetics tonight She has asked us to choose an example of prose by Laurie Lee and expand on it using “I had never been so close to grass before. It towered above me and all around me, each blade tattooed with tiger-skins of sunlight. It was knife-edge, dark and a wicked green, thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers that chirped and chattered, and leapt through the air like monkeys” (Cider with Rosie)
Thanks for joining in with the prompt – you have taken the first line of the prose and peered through the grass –
I like the inference of white as
“frozen crystals of ice
As he flaps wings with his might”
This was beautiful Christine!
Thank you so much Rob. You are always so kind 🙂
I would love to have such an experience… wonderful birds.
What a lovely sight and powerful flight you’ve recorded here! The last quatrain is my favorite.
Thank you so much Lynn 🙂💕
My pleasure. 🙂💞
This is so beautiful, you’ve really taken me there.
Thank you so much 🙂 I really appreciate it 💕
I sailed along with your words, Christine. What a majestic creature that swan is.
Thank you so much Tracy. 🙂 I couldn’t get him out of my mind after reading about them. Sorry for the delay in answering, your message went to Spam 😔
No worries, Christine. That seems to be happening a lot to me lately. I think it has to do with the music challenge I’m doing at the moment.
Good luck with it Tracy 🙂
You capture the power of the swan 🙂
Thanks Jane 🙂💕
🙂
really beautiful depiction, you transported me there with your words!
Thanks so much Kate 🙂 The Trumpeter came up in a book I am reading and I can’t get it out of my head!
something just resound deeply don’t they … then keep writing it out 🙂
Yes! 🙂
Thanks for joining in with the prompt – you have taken the first line of the prose and peered through the grass –
I like the inference of white as
“frozen crystals of ice
As he flaps wings with his might”
Thank you so much Laura 🙂
How beautiful!
Thank you my dear friend 💕💕
My pleasure. 🙂💞
Absolutely beautiful
Aww thank you Sadje 🙂💕
You’re welcome Christine
❤️