For: Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: July 30, 2017, Mundane Monday Challenge #121 : Learn Photography
Day: August 6, 2017
Levels ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #99
I’ll echo what you’re saying
We’ll remain levels in any means
What’s clear is I’m your friend
And there’s no pretend
Morning on the street where sidewalk is closed
© J Hardy Carroll
THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “Even Though” by Esther Cohen: rejection, different, thought, letters, have, would, harder, envelope, despite, going, pass, satisfying
Morning on the street where sidewalk is closed
Despite different cars passing through today
I thought those old buildings have been bulldozed
Satisfying for me what I composed
Would have been harder had you seen my way
Morning on the street where sidewalk is closed
All emotion in the letter enclosed
My heart bleeding on this morning so grey
I thought those old buildings have been bulldozed
In the envelope rejection disclosed
Hard to walk as I pass by the bikeway
Morning on the street where sidewalk is closed
Have to go through this however I posed
Come hell or high waters or come what may
I thought those old buildings have been bulldozed
With the fire we had, they were quick to hosed
No one was injured, we thanked as we pray
Morning on the street where sidewalk is closed
I thought those old buildings have been bulldozed*
(c) ladyleemanila 2017
* A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).
One of the most famous Villanelle is “Do not go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas.
For: Sunday Photo Fiction – August 6th 2017, Whirligig 123
Shimmer – Daily Prompt
autumn like a dream
trees shimmer thanks to moonbeam
share tender moment
autumn like a dream
when the wind brushes the leaves
fairy tale that weaves
trees shimmer thanks to moonbeam
shades of reds, browns and yellows
autumn wind whispers
share tender moment
holding hands by the moonlight
sparkle of the night
sky freckled with stars
shining like million fireflies
oh so beautiful
oh so beautiful
shimmering sparkles of stars
gust of wind drifted
For: Shimmer
Other “shimmer” posts:
https://britwitblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/chips/
https://designersophisticate.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/what-would-you-look-like/
https://emotionsoflife2016.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/souls-do-shimmer/
In the end, we’ll all become stories
Mandibelles Collage 5.jpg
Window- Andrey Bobir: Fruit Center: Kevin Sloan: Woman- Christian Schloe
Today’s quote was suggested to us by Mandibelle please check out her amazing blog
The quote “In the end, we’ll all become stories.” -Margaret Atwood
In the end, we’ll all become stories
Foolish as bees, bustling with excitement
Circling agent, eccentric like the fleas
Entangled squeeze, glinting like figment
The need for a taste of chocolate
Jump for biscuit, not good for waist
In the willowwacks or the hood
If we could, have contacts
Fox is sitting by the window
As we all know, berries are good
In his boyhood, he’s always raced
He’s got good taste, as he would
Ripe papaya is such a healthy fruit
The girl is cute, as seen in here
That much is clear, follow the route
Water from chute, flowing from near
In the end, we’ll all become stories
As we sneeze, they’re all part of movement
At this moment, all part of symphonies
The day we seize, for our lives are brilliant*
(c) ladyleemanila 2017
* The LaJemme is a 5 stanza form created by poets Laura Lamarca and Jem Farmer.
Meter: consistently iambic
Stanza 1, 10 syllables per line, Rhyme scheme abab, 4th syllable of each line is to rhyme with the end rhyme of the preceding line.
Stanza 2, syllable count: 8/8/8/6, Rhyme scheme cdef, with cross rhymes in each couplet on 4th syllable
Stanza 3, syllable count 8/8/8/6, Rhyme scheme gfdf, 4th syllable of each line follows the same rule as stanza 1.
Stanza 4, 10 syllables per line, Rhyme scheme hihi, 4th syllable of each line is to rhyme with the end rhyme of the preceding line.
Stanza 5, 10 syllables per line, Rhyme scheme abab, 4th syllable of each line is to rhyme with the end rhyme of the preceding line.
Trees in Austria
For: Sunday Trees – 299
