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.
Misplacing things to say, out of pace,
Thoughts unbraced, chains broken,
Stolen.
Unable to be traced, tracks uncoupled,
Words vanished, left broken,
Waste.
Believe the ocean a trusted motion
Every wave a guide brings in the tide
Luster of sea and sky, sun streams by
Incantation of sound being spellbound
Evening displays of suns rays
Vast air aflame to proclaim
Enduring desire never to tire
Today’s Writing 201 challenge
Your prompt: trust
Today’s form: acrostic
Today’s device: internal rhyme
Water still, to ice
Mirror, glass, as solid state
And trapped as opaque
(For the WP Writing 201 Poetry class. This verse is taken from the previously posted poem Morning Frost)
Hold on to me
So woes will flee
Fold and entwine
Calmness, be mine
Wrap loving hope
Power to cope
Around my limbs
Like angel wings
Embrace my heart
Never to part
Spring shards of light
Just hold on tight
Facets of humankind
As light refractors on the angles
Of the mind
The strong and bonded planes
That hold us safe with love and
Memories like chains
Subtle shards of light
That glisten to remember
Colours so bright
Contrasting fragility
The internal elements
With crystal transparency
Rotations and displays
Born as one holding constraints with
Curves and concaves
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