consider

img ~ http://www.clematisinternational.com/japan200802.html Mish is host at dVerse tonight and offers this superb prompt. Today, I am asking you to write a poem from the perspective of one of nature’s gifts…a tree, a wildflower, a leaf in the wind or even through the eyes of a wise old owl. Think beyond personification. Get into character …

Treespeak

tree image ~ http://imgur.com/gallery/YcSS4 Mish is host at dVerse tonight and offers this superb prompt. Today, I am asking you to write a poem from the perspective of one of nature’s gifts…a tree, a wildflower, a leaf in the wind or even through the eyes of a wise old owl. Think beyond personification. Get into …

spark spring

If you are interested in the challenge of writing One With All the Words (a 44-word poem that includes ALL of the Quadrille words we have offered thus far), here they are: dance, lull, bubble, grin, melt, shimmer, twist, skip, green, breeze, spill, rose, journey, jar, leaves, open, shadow, cloud, spark, cue, breath(e), scar, curl, …

mumberly jumberly

Hello, amazing poets! WhimsyGizmo here, and it’s my personal favorite day, Quadrille Monday! Today, I want us to drift about our poems using the word balloon. Pen us a poem that’s full of hot air. Helium up something funny, or sad, or whimsical. Noun, verb, adjective, or a compound word like balloonman – the sky’s the …

splash

Meet the bar at dVerse tonight with Bjorn once again our inspiration and host. I thought we would continue our journey through the world of art and try to paint with words like an art movement. Today I would like us to look deeper into impressionism. Today impressionist art is one of the most loved …

guilty innocence

Prompt by Fireblossom over at Real Toads: Today's text, my flock, concerns incongruity. Specifically, we are going to try to write setting that doesn't match action, or character that does not coincide with setting. Let's start with the first. For illustration, here is my poem "Garden Wall":  They stood daddy up against the garden wall …

what is it?

img source My third entry for this weeks Quadrille#28 prompt at The Poets Pub ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spes oritur ut aeterna* Succulent Peonies Rooted In Native Ground Percolating  raindrops in night's  gentle showers Revelations in narcissi's  golden shofar proclamations Intricate networks growing substratum pathways rigorously Naughty garden sprites performing reality's illusion Great spirit pondering renewal's infinite nuance …

Spring’s Dance

img source Quadrille#28 The One With All The Words. Write a quadrille using 44 words including these 28 from previous prompts. dance, lull, bubble, grin, melt, shimmer, twist, skip, green, breeze, spill, rose, journey, jar, leaves, open, shadow, cloud, spark, cue, breath(e), scar, curl, whisper, dawn, ghost, giggle, spring. shimmer a spring dance of rose …

little laugh

dVerse Quadrille #27 tonight and De gives us a Giggle of a prompt. Good advice, yes? Let’s follow it today. De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) here, and it’s a Quadrille Monday – when we write a poem of precisely 44 words, not including the title, and including a given word. For today’s Q44, I would like …

multiple choice

Fun prompt at Real Toads from Isadora The challenge is simple.  Write a poem in the form of a multiple choice test.  The whole poem could be a test, or you could insert a multiple choice some where into the normal structure of a poem.  I've provided links to two examples from my blog.  Feel free …