What did you do today?
I pushed out the boat
Watched over my shores
Kept possibilities afloat
I swaggered the banner
And raised the tide
Worked through anguish
For our sense of pride
I swept out the doubts
That folded around
Housing cool whispers
Putting fears to ground
O sun streak through
Alabaster days
Banish weak torment
Of the morning haze
Glisten into the sea
Adorn the mighty waves
Flee the blinding mists
Brighten with golden rays
Bring forth the spirit
Of dawn full of praise
Sing from dismal slumber
Out of this dark phase
For WPC: Orange
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Haiku
Musical wren sings
Sings as it flutters its wings
What beauty it brings
For Beverly Dyers Art Prescription Haiku Challenge: NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month-February)
A path, a continual
Fear, willing to hope
A daily ritual
Of being able to cope
Future visions to wait
New plans to withhold
The old, the same state
The constant same old
The picture, a dream
To feel self esteem
Not wanting to scream
No bird flying high
High flying to the sky
……..Just scraping on by
Your prompt: future
Today’s form: sonnet
Today’s device: chiasmus
A squirrel
Leaps abound
Shaken leaves downed
Pine needles found
Trodden into the ground
Foliage
And wood
Mache into mud
Soft under foot
Where tractor wheels cut
Rustling
Of debris
Skyward and see
Birds fly free
Rhythm of land, of tree
Writing 201
Your prompt: landscape
Today’s form: found poetry
Today’s device: enumeratio, it basically means constructing a list, a successive enumeration (duh!) of multiple elements in the same series.
A Nurse’s Medal Kept within a Drawer…….
Kept safe, an object
Memories connect
Thoughts link and affect
Held within the mind
And in this confined
Emblem t’was assigned
You’re there to remind
If needed to find
A presence of mind
A symbol sacred
Achievement stated
Calling……created
Your prompt: drawer
Today’s form: ode
Today’s device: apostrophe
A touch, a hand with loving care.
Clutching fingers embrace and calm the despair.
Enveloping a message in a time of need,
Hold on take heed.
Fingers latch, a firm call.
Making a promise, catching if you fall.
Your prompt: fingers
Today’s form: prose poetry
Today’s device: assonance
We’ve tackled alliteration last week — the strategic repetition of consonants in close proximity to each other. Today, let’s give assonance a try. It’s the same thing, only with vowels.
Your hero will come along
Your saviour bold and strong
Your answers all belong
Within your own theme song
Your reflection will appear
Your thoughts become clear
Your worries will disappear
You are your hero, my dear
Day Six: Hero(ine), Ballad, Epistrophe
Your prompt: hero(ine)
Today’s form: ballad
Today’s device: anaphora and epistrophe
Anaphora simply means the repetition of the same word (or cluster of words) at the beginning of multiple lines of verse in the same poem. Epistrophe is its counterpart: the repeated words appear at the end of lines.
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