Category: Quadrille

Feeling a lot like Christmas – a Quadrille

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Feeling a lot like Christmas











Freshly hewn logs
stacked in neat piles
dusted with a light layer
of soft snow
 
Christmas trees
lined up ready for sale
Excited children
with hearts aglow  
 
Melodic carols being sung
Chestnuts on a fire
Jack Frost in the air
Memories from long ago
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©


Lillian is hosting Monday Quadrille
at D'Verse Poets and has prompted
us with the word Glow

Hewn - RDP
Jack - word of the Day

A Quadrille is a poem of exactly
44 words, excluding with title

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Armor – A Quadrille

		

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Armor





Sealed tight
like a drum
Nothing gets in
or out
It cannot be undone   
 
That’s the way
it became
When deciding
to forsake our love
leaving me in shame   
 
Coming upon me
a brazen charmer
Knowing now
there is no crack
in my armor           
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

De Jackson, aka Whimsy Gizmo is
hosting Monday Quadrille at
D'Verse Poets tonight and has
prompted us to write a quadrille
with the word 'Crack'

A Quadrille is a poem of exactly
144 words excluding the title

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Keep on Dancing – A Quadrille

		

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Keep on Dancing





Balanced and on an even keel
Confidence returned once more
She possessed unmistakable duende
as she danced powerfully across the floor
 
The volume of the music
was turned way up high
It was impossible to keep her still
Her only limit was the sky
 
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

Kim is hosting Monday Quadrille
at D'Verse Poets tonight and prompted
us with the work 'Keep' 
A quadrille has exactly 44 words
excluding the title

There word Prompts
Keel - WotD
Duende - RDP
Volume - FowC

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Saved from Extinction – A Quadrille

		

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Saved from Extinction





Marriage saved
from extinction
after weeks of
not understanding
the distinction
between two people
with opposing views
Hurting each other
beyond belief  
the other must choose
Anger escalating
blinded with rage
until the coin drops
in the slot and
no more war to wage
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

Linda from Charmed Chaos is hosting
D'Verse Poets Monday Quadrille tonight. 
Her prompt word is Extinction.
A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words
excluding the title. 

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Go Dog Go Cafe - Promote yourself Monday

	    


	    	

	    	
	

	

	    	

		
		
Voiceless – A Quadrille

		

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Voiceless





When my words
are suppressed
and not permitted
to be spoken
I have been silenced  
 
They remain stuck
deep in my throat
until I choke
and sputter
My voice unheard  
 
Who speaks for me?
My words
must be heard
Without them
I am nothing 
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

De Jackson (aka Whimsy Gizmo) is hosting
Monday Quadrille at D'Verse tonight
Tonights prompt is Voice
A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words
excluding the title

	    


	    	

	    	
	

	

	    	

		
		
Transference – A Quadrille

		

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Transference 





The sky freckled
with tangerine clouds
The sun’s last breath
of the day
The water glittered
with diamonds
and shadows grew long
as the evening turned grey
Through the looking glass
of twilight
astral forms came into view
and under the stars we lay

 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at
D'Verse Poets tonight and has prompted
us with "Freckles"

A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words
excluding the title

Words prompt

Astral - RDP

Go Dog Go Cafe - Through the Looking Glass

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Rising Sun – A Quadrille

		

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Rising Sun – A Quadrille
 
As it finally breaks the dawn
stealing from the night
It wakens the sleeping birds
as it bathes the world in light    
 
The sun’s great yellow orb
rising slowly in the big sky
flanked by cotton ball clouds
sitting way up there on high               
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

Grace is hosting Monday Quadrille
at D'Verse Poets tonight.  Our prompt is 'Sun'
A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words
excluding the title

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Fret Not

		

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Fret Not





Please, love, fret no more
Crying will make it worse
If words of anger are spoken
It does not make a curse  
 
The air had been very heated
and emotions were running quite high
Hurtful things were conveyed
but your tears will eventually dry
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

Kim, from Writing in North Norfolk, is hosting
Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets tonight.
She has prompted us with the word Fret which
can be a verb or a noun. I chose the verb.
A Quadrille is a poem with exactly 44 words
excluding the title.

	    


	    	

	    	
	

	

	    	

		
		
Fine Wine – A Quadrille

		

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Fine Wine





Rich dark soil
of the rolling hills
gave birth to ancient vines 
Blessed by priests in spring
for a bountiful
harvest time
 
Forever at the mercy
of fickle elements 
Let us pray for clusters
of plump fruit
For the making of
our fine wine
 
 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
 
Kim for Writing in Northerlies Norfolk is hosting
Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets
Tonight she has asked us to take any meaning, form
or compound of the word rich

A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding
the title.

	    


	    	

	    	
	

	

	    	

		
		
Time To Get Up – A Quadrille

		

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Time To Get Up





A plangent chorus
of early birds
My wake up call this day
Busy at work
singing and feeding
without hesitation or delay
 
Sandhill cranes
moving slowly
along the river bed
Their rattling bugle call
can be heard for miles
enough to wake the dead

 
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

WimsyGizmo is hosting Monday Quadrille
at D'Verse Poets tonight.  He has prompted us 
with the word "Up"

Word Prompts:

Plagent

River

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