I have been tagged by crushedcaramel to create an elfchen, which is
an 11 word poem written in 5 lines
— Line 1=1word, Line 2=2words, Line 3=3words, Line 4=4 words, Line 5 =1 word.
Lines 1 and 5 should not be the same word.
Some
days I
miss you terribly.
Other days I can’t even
breathe.
It’s Quadrille Monday at the dVerse Poets Pub! The writing prompt is “Kiss.”
What would it be like
I wonder,
to count the gold
flecks in your
hazel eyes and smell
the fabric
softener of your shirt,
to be in your space.
Utter perfection!
And if we
(just for a moment)
were close enough
to kiss
one kiss.
Today at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, the writing prompt is sensation.
It’s a slow
warm honey tingle
spiraling up
then down
like lava
lamp bubbles,
an aching quiver—
gently surging
swelling and then
you touch me…
Welcome to the Saturday Mix – Unique Personality, 9 February 2019!
This week we are diving into the depths of PERSONIFICATION. Our challenge is all about the use of personification in our writing. You will need to use the statement provided in your response – which can be poetry or prose.
Our statement using, personification is:
The long road to his home was a twisting snake with no visible end.
The long road to his home was a twisting snake with no visible end. Gary been walking for hours, it seemed, and felt no closer to home than when he began. He’d gladly hitchhike, but there was no traffic. Cars and trucks never used this road. It was unpaved and much to narrow. Plus, it only led to one place, a place no one but Gary would want to go.
And it wasn’t that he wanted to go. He had to go. Gary owed his mother an explanation for his 25-year absence. He didn’t even know if she was still alive. All the letters he’d sent from prison had gone unanswered. They didn’t have a phone, so he couldn’t even call her.
He kept walking and finally came upon the clearing from which he could see his home from the hilltop.
He blinked and blinked again. It wasn’t there. It was as if it had never existed. In place of the small farm and its tar paper shack was a thriving community: a strip mall, housing development, gas stations, traffic lights, cars, people…
Well, shit.
Gary stood in the clearing and watched life go on in this new community. It wasn’t long before he realized there was nothing there for him.
Twenty-five years was a long time. No need to dig up a past that was best forgotten.
He turned and headed back down the road.
For some reason, it didn’t seem as twisted an narrow anymore.
Today at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, the Tan Renga Challenge is a Hineri (with a twist) challenge and that means you have to create a Tan Renga and two other stanza, so you have to create not only the second stanza of two lines, but also a third stanza (three lines) and a fourth stanza (two lines).
I wear loosely
and meet the man
at the night of firefly
© Katsura Nobuko (1914-2004)
alone I have loved him
forever without knowing him
fireflies romancing in
the moon’s sultry breeze
silk charmeuse ripples
teasing my skin I wait
for him. I will wait for him.
Ergo, the Ogre 