Wednesday, December 21, 2022

This Photo Wants to be a Poem Takeover!

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.


19 comments:

  1. Icy
    Photo taken
    So far away from here
    Adds a shiver to equator
    Solstice

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    1. Is it a welcome shiver? I hope a nice cool breeze is a treat. Love to think that the equator CAN shiver.

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    2. Ruth, I love your equator-inspired poem. "adds a shiver" is perfect!

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  2. winter vine sparkles
    with ice on twisty tendrils--
    dreams of leafy days

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  3. Linda: 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:

    one loopy
    tendril
    twines
    in the cold
    persists
    enfolds
    two frigid
    gems --
    winter's
    glamour
    remains
    © Karen Eastlund

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    1. OOh la la! cold, enfolds, glamour...mais oui!

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    2. Love your form and how it reflects the photo. Great word choice: "tendril, gem, glamour".

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  4. ice wonder
    crystal vines entwine
    forget time
    ©jone rush macculloch

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    1. What a great capture in that, "forget time." Yes...time doesn't matter here does it?

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  5. Thanks for taking over, Linda. I hope my comments are coming across. I have trouble with Blogger sometimes. I was inspired by your "January Jeweler."

    ice on a tree vine
    transforms the ordinary
    into a jewel

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    1. They are, Rose! You're showing up just fine...despite blogger's weirdness. A jewel of a verse too!

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    2. I love how you drew attention to the ordinary transformed.

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  6. Thanks, Linda, for taking over. I do love this photo and hope to come back to it.

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