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Good Morning!
Our usual host, Margaret Simon, is a bit busy today so I'm taking over her blog space to bring you, This Photo Wants to be a Poem. Perhaps you remember that 'This Photo...' began with a weekly prompt with Laura Purdie Salas and then moved to Margaret's Reflections on the River Teche where she tends it weekly. She'll be back soon.
Margaret shared this photo as a prompt for a quick-write or short poem today. See where it takes you.
My draft:
Winter wears dangle earrings
diamonds of ice
flash against snow
She doesn't worry
that they'll melt
as December
welcomes a January Jeweler
who does the best work
in temperatures
below zero.
(c) Linda Mitchell
Your turn!
Write a small poem in the comments section. Blogger has changed the way that commenters are identified. So, if you aren't signed in to Blogger, please sign your comment so that we know who to respond to. Support other writers who stop by for some writing time today.
Icy
ReplyDeletePhoto taken
So far away from here
Adds a shiver to equator
Solstice
Nice!
DeleteIs it a welcome shiver? I hope a nice cool breeze is a treat. Love to think that the equator CAN shiver.
DeleteRuth, I love your equator-inspired poem. "adds a shiver" is perfect!
Deletewinter vine sparkles
ReplyDeletewith ice on twisty tendrils--
dreams of leafy days
Love the personification.
DeleteAh, yes...the sleeping tree probably is dreaming. What a lovely thought.
DeleteLove "Twisty tendrils".
DeleteLinda: Thanks for hosting, and... what a great photo! I love your dangle earrings and January the best jeweler. My years in MN attest to that truth. Here's mine:
ReplyDeleteone loopy
tendril
twines
in the cold
persists
enfolds
two frigid
gems --
winter's
glamour
remains
© Karen Eastlund
It does look glamorous!
DeleteOOh la la! cold, enfolds, glamour...mais oui!
DeleteLove your form and how it reflects the photo. Great word choice: "tendril, gem, glamour".
Deleteice wonder
ReplyDeletecrystal vines entwine
forget time
©jone rush macculloch
What a great capture in that, "forget time." Yes...time doesn't matter here does it?
DeleteLovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking over, Linda. I hope my comments are coming across. I have trouble with Blogger sometimes. I was inspired by your "January Jeweler."
ReplyDeleteice on a tree vine
transforms the ordinary
into a jewel
They are, Rose! You're showing up just fine...despite blogger's weirdness. A jewel of a verse too!
DeleteI love how you drew attention to the ordinary transformed.
DeleteThanks, Linda, for taking over. I do love this photo and hope to come back to it.
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