Month: September 2025

W3 :: The veil

AI generated
distressed soul
carrying the weight of the past
crawling between crumbs of memories

darkness takes over your surroundings 
deep into your being
the veil is thinning

while bare branches reach to you
a carpet of leaves welcomes you
the golden light is your portal
W3
II. Lisa’s prompt guidelines

Fall always feels like a season of both endings and beginnings, doesn’t it? For this week, let’s explore those transitions in a Quadrille—a 44-word poem, a form first shared with us by the wonderful d’Verse Poets Pub.

Your poem can lean into endings, beginnings, or the mix of the two. And if you’d like an extra spark, here’s a thought from Friedrich Nietzsche:

I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

W3: The kite

It’s Sunday, so why we don’t have a little fun! 

looking up to the sky

the kids are on standby

the smiles are fading away

the bets are at the bay

the kite echoes bye-bye

Joining W3 prompt below, I’ve chosen a Limerick form ‘AABBA’ for my little poem.

This week, we’re playing with contrast:

Write a poem where form and content are at odds.

  • Use a light or playful form (for example, a limerick, clerihew, double dactyl, skeltonic, or nursery-rhyme rhythm).
    • Or simply write in any style that sounds upbeat through its meter, rhyme, sing-song cadence, or playful repetition.
  • Then employ that cheerful sound to convey weighty subject matter — loss, mortality, injustice, or other serious themes.

The tension between the bright form and dark content should create an unsettling or thought-provoking effect.

Extra twist (optional): Work the word echo into your poem.

Backgroung

I prepped this background a few weeks ago. The colours turned out nicely, but I don’t kow how to go ahead with it, what to add to it. Maybe it stands by itself, only colours, abstract, and the expression will depend on who sees it.

For me, these colours represent barriers I have to break, things I need to understand to go ahead, to make peace with myself. So, this painting is much more than a background; it speaks everything, it is a complete piece of art.

“Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.” Robert Brault

Fall colours

Fall colours are popping up around here, starting with the golden sunlight in the early morning and late afternoon. I saw these sunflowers at the grocery store last week. They have the most exquisite colours, and I couldn’t resist; I brought them home. 

Pumpkin spice is my fave taste this time of the year, everything, from lattes to candles. Cinnamon, apple pies… delicious, and delicious. 

And of course, cozy up with a great story. I got these three books for September. Strong women’s characters are always my to go when choosing a book.

Little things here and there, trying to focus on the positive.

“There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” 

Percy Bysshe Shelley