Today I stole precious moments Sitting for half hour Choosing to defy summer heat Longing for sun’s warmth And the scent of summer flowers I browse the book on my lap that tells me to take time and smell the roses … so I did Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets and has prompted us to use the word ’Browse’ A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title Image Pixabay
Bare trees of March stand spindly against the backdrop of a darkened sky Lazy daffodils laden with hopes of Spring trip over themselves waiting for daylight to show them the way A pale moon reflects its light on still water sending a calmness into the crisp night air Lone hooting owl breaks the night’s silence A reminder that Nature never sleeps Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Bjorn is hosting Open Link Night at D’Verse Poets Word Promps March - RDP Water - FOWC Trip - Stream of Consciousness
As day sits on the cusp of dusk a slight movement catches the eye The silent, single silhouette of a cottontail enthralls Nibbling grass in the garden Eyes of the hunted moving restlessly while appearing calm A soothing sight on a quiet summer’s eve Copyright © 2022 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets. Her prompt is "Nibble" A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title.
Whooshing of wings flap In the early morning air Constant quacking breaks silence Too numerous to count Snowbirds have returned with a splash Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Grace is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight and has prompted us with form I am not familiar with. The Wayra (Quechua - wind) is a popular verse form of Peru and Bolivia. It appears it originated in an indigenous Quechua language but has found its way into Spanish literature. It is a short syllabic verse form. The elements of the Wayra are: 1.a pentastich, a poem in 5 lines. 2.syllabic, 5-7-7-6-8 3.unrhymed. Plus we are to incorporate onomatopoeia!
Breaking the night in orange glow Rising in the sky but still slow is sunlight Streaking though the limbs of oak trees Catching dust particles with ease are sunbeams Dancing on water’s gentle waves Sparkling diamonds memory saves as sun-kissed Tanning bodies on sandy shores Skin soaking in lotion one pours for sunburn As the day wears on it sinks low Towards the west it now must go to sunset Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Grace is hosting D'Verse Poets and she has prompted us with Compound Word Verse. The Compound Word Verse is a poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith that consists of five 3-line stanzas, for a total of 15 lines. The last line of each stanza ends in a compound word and these compound words share a common stem word which is taken from the title. (In the first example below the stem word is “moon” from the title “Moonlighting”; the compound words related to the title are moondust, moonbeams, moonsongs, etc.) The Compound Word Verse (3 lines) has a set rhyme scheme and meter as follows: Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b Syllable/Meter: 8, 8, 3 Image by sabri ismail from Pixabay
Rain clouds slowly moved on after resolving their differences with an impatient evening sky anxiously waiting to throw a star-spangled velvet cover on the remains of the day If the full moon could speak he would gently ask for the wind to refrain That the sea might remain calm and allow its light to reflect on a still surface illuminating the night The artist’s preparations, meticulous A serene nightscape comes to life On a daily blank canvas Earth and sky exist in harmony Calming, soothing and brilliant in its beauty Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Word Prompts Star-spangled - RDP Resolve - FOWC If - Stream of Consciousness
The fragrance of night jasmine lingers in the evening air leaving scented memories of sun-kissed days warming the skin Soft rustling of late summer leaves clinging tentatively to boughs as autumn winds begin to blow, heralding the inevitable change that is about to begin. Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets and has given us the prompt word ”Linger” A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words excluding the title
Gently floating fluffy clouds Frothy as air, dancing along the wind Long gone A sky thick with blanket of marzipan clouds Suffocating, sucking oxygen from the atmosphere Thunderous claps break the heavy silence Seconds before an electrical charge shoots daggers Across the darkening expanse Penetrating the ground avoiding the electrodes and scorching the earth with its volatility Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Word Prompts Word of the Day - Marzipan RDP - Frothy as Air Stream of Consciousness- ‘Ode’ (in any form we choose)
The sky cries scarlet tears from bloodied white clouds forming across a sun’s fury as it burns the earth Its weeping sadly not enough to douse the flames of disregard Neglect cheap Blinding us to inconceivable perils now impossible to reverse An inspired carpet of verdant forest floor destroyed by the punishing wrath of an angry creator Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Earthweal openlink weekend RDP - Inspired Carpet Image by Unhttps://unsplash.com/photos/icrhAD-qidcsplash
As the earth stills there is a hush emblazoned sky in orange crush Spoonbills wade the color of blush Nothing to rush, nothing to rush The sun has left taking its light In the darkness the moon glows bright Shining beams wherever it might Stars glint at night, stars glint at night Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing All Rights Reserved Image by Twighlightzone from Pixabay
Grace is hosting D’Verse Poets tonight and has prompted us with writing a Monotetra, See below:
*Comprised of quatrains (four-line stanzas) in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of 8 syllables per line
*Each quatrain consists of mono-rhymed lines (so each line in the first stanza has the same type of rhyme, as does each line in the second stanza, etc.)
*The final line of each stanza repeats the same four syllables. This is what makes the monotetra so powerful as a poetic form – the last line contains two metrical feet, repeated.
*This poem can be as short as 1 or 2 quatrains and as long as a poet wishes.
Stanza Structure:
Line 1: 8 syllables; A1
Line 2: 8 syllables; A2
Line 3: 8 syllables; A3
Line 4: 4 syllables, repeated; A4, A4