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It's the first Poetry Friday of October. Matt Forrest Esenwine is hosting all the poetry goodness at Radio, Rhythm and Rhyme. Please stop in there to see the round-up.
The Inklings challenge this month is to write a poem in response to a photograph of another Inkling. Margaret matched us up. I got this photo from Mary Lee at A(noth)er Year of Reading.
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| Photo from Mary Lee |
I started playing around in my journal with words related to raindrops. I couldn't tell if the photo was of a river, lake, or puddle. So, I took several swings at the prompt.
Which poem do you like best? I can't wait to see what Mary Lee did with one of my photos. Stay tuned.
To see how other Inklings responded to this prompt, visit
Mary Lee Hahn @ A(nother) Year of Reading
Catherine Flynn @ Reading to the Core
Molly Hogan @ Nix the Comfort Zone
Margaret Simon @ Reflections on the Teche
Heidi Mordhorst @ my juicy little universe
Ooh! I love all three, but the last one really does it for me. shadow-gloam-slow-glow-piano...so fun to read aloud! This was the pond at the Casting for Recovery retreat. Just a light evening sprinkle before the big day of fishing. I love thinking about the fish at the pond's jazz club later that night! May I have permission to share this with the ladies who were at the retreat?
ReplyDeleteLinda, I love how you let your brain/heart take you in all these directions! I love children of dust and sky. I also love how you are playing with white space/indentation. Brava! xo
ReplyDeleteLove that you connect a jazz club with the fish in the water - great image!
ReplyDeleteSo fun! Love how you played with alliteration in the second poem and the cool rhythms of the third!
ReplyDeleteSuch fun, all of these! My favorite is the jazz fish, which is begging to be a kids' book.
ReplyDeleteOooh, "children of dust and sky" - that line really works for me!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a fun prompt! Everyone took to it like a jazzy fish to water :) I like the patters pittering and the pitters pattering.
ReplyDeleteLinda, you did a marvelous job with word choice and white space throughout the 3 poems. I enjoyed the 2nd poem with its alliteration. I would love to hear children reading this poem.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, I love FISH -- I have a poem-as-PB I hope to sell someday that evokes the same joy of jazzy music from the fish in an alpine pond.
ReplyDeletePhotographs offer a smorgasbord of possibilities for poetic responses.They are an easily embracable treat for the mind of a poet. You exemplify this in your various poems, Linda. I particularly found delight in reading your fish poem and how you created such varied allusions to this, beyond the water world they inhabit.
ReplyDeleteThese are all wonderful, Linda! I do love the raindrops becoming the"syncopated piano warm-ups" of a jazz club. So clever!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing all three! The first is a just right metaphor, the second has wonderful sounds, and that third one is masterful story of fish.
ReplyDeleteSo many awesome sounds. I love that you tried all kinds of poems.
ReplyDeleteThese are all so fun and sensitive, I love your word play! If I have to pick a favorite it would be "Fish" reminds me of a surreal cabaret… and song by Jacque Brel, though I love them all, thanks Linda!
ReplyDeleteHow fun that you completed three poems from one photo prompt! I think the first one is my favorite but the word choice and sounds in "Fish" are pretty wonderful!
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