WDYS :: Encounter

They found each other in a raining day. Love at first sight, hope, and cure for their broken hearts.

Hearts, once crying in desolation, now beat as one, mended with stiches of love to create a place for hope.

Joining Sadje’s WDYS

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

W3 :: flip-flops into forever

Flip-flops into forever


wear a scarf 
wear flip-flops
flip-flops are freedom
flip-flops are top
top of the world
top of my mind
mind lost
mind found
found leaves
found joy
joy is yellow
joy is red
red as blood
red as wine
wine is welcome
wine is a luxury
luxury in the breeze
luxury during sunset
sunset is inviting
sunset is orange
orange as sunflowers
orange is sweet
sweet teeth
sweet pumpkin 
pumpkin spice latte
pumpkin cake
cake for you
cake for summer
summer is leaving
summer’s farewell
farewell to shorts
farewell to the beach
beach’s waves
beach’s sand
sand in my toes
sand in my hair
hair is wet
hair is golden
golden as my scarf
golden as my ring
ring for the show
ring for connection
connection to nature
connection with love
love to you
love forever
forever fellings
forever dreams
dreams
fellings

I had fun writing this poem for W3 challenge this week. I’ve never heard of this poetry form before. Blitz poem! See the guidelines below.

Carol Anne’s prompt guidelines

This week’s challenge is to write a blitz poem! Here’s how it works:

Line 1: one short phrase or image (example: build a boat)
Line 2: another short phrase or image, starting with the same first word as line 1 (build a house)
Lines 3 & 4: each begin with the last word of line 2 (house for sale, house for rent)
Lines 5 & 6: each begin with the last word of line 4, and so on — keep repeating this pattern until line 48
Line 49: just the last word of line 48
Line 50: just the last word of line 47
Title: three words long, in the format (first word of line 3) (preposition or conjunction) (first word of line 47)
No punctuation

It sounds like a lot of rules, but once you get the hang of the rhythm it’s fun and fast-flowing!

For this week’s theme, allow your flow of writing to be guided by whatever you associate with the transition from summer to fall. Let the images and connections reflect that seasonal shift, even as the poem races forward with its own momentum.

Tanka Tuesday :: The fall

walking in the fall
an impromptus work leave
a right turn wasn’t right
reaching the ground, a scraped knee
a fall which left me disturbed

Tanka Tuesday’s host this week is Yvette; her prompt is to ‘have fun with words that have multiple meanings. I’ve chosen fall, leave and right for my tanka.

W3 – Just

daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, worker
multiple duties, tasks and pleasures
always needed, never in need
limited recognition
consuming winter blues 
as the blue colour
a breath of peace
splitting care
woman
just

An inverted etheree poem for W3 – photo prompt

Scraps

colourful or plain
scraps of imagination
a treasure or trash
from a perfectly nothing
a future without hurry

Joining Tanka Tuesday.

Justing

flow
with joy
time will tell
the right moment
not a second more
and not a second less
listen, your intuition
sailing in turbulent waters
let go of the grip, breathe in and out
sparkling water will show the direction

Joining the W3 prompt this week with an Etheree poem.

II. Violet’s prompt guidelines

Choose a word from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and make it the title of your poem. Your poem should either use the word directly or capture the essence of its meaning. Include a direct link to the word’s page so readers can explore its definition and origin. Write in any poetic form you wish.

I’ve chosen JUSTING, check the meaning here.

tiny art 6

July 31st! Can you believe it’s the last day of July? Almost impossible to believe how fast this summer is going by. Today is the last day of #icad2025. Here are a few of them. The above one is maybe my fave of all of them, pure simplicity.