Getting lost is not a waste of time
Aishwarya on Timelessly writes an Emmet! Read more on the poetic forms series …Creativity Verses Form on The Skeptic’s Kaddish and Mindfills
School Experiences come in various shapes, colours and sizes. But, nevertheless, the memories can never be forgotten, right? Here is a nostalgic Emmett poem for such bittersweet memories.
School life memories
monsoon balcony
downpour on a crescendo
~ astounding applause
Mindfills for Eugi’s weekly prompt – astounding
David of The Skeptic’s Kaddish and I began a fun poetry partnership in April. We celebrated writing together a 100 verse renga, The Hyakuin And within days, decided we would absolutely love to continue our writing collaboration and what has grown to be a warm friendship with a new poetry project.
We decided to explore poetry forms. A to Z. Each week one of us chooses a poetry form the other responds to. We completed our first series Form verses creativity in June ’22. And we’re now on to the next set of poetry forms A to Z ~ Creativity Verses Form. We added a little twist for version2.0, with a key word starting with the same letter.
For E, David selected the Emmett form and the keyword ‘Elves’
Elves frolic about my mind,
Frolic with sheer blissful, unbridled mirth
About trees; hilltops; waters; shores, earth.
My deft tenants prance about unconfined
~ Mind bu-thumps with the rhythms they birth
Elves dance in daisy fields,
Dance to rhythms of the universe
In lilting voices they speak in verse
Daisy heads turn, as Elven laughter peals
Fields of gold wave hands in the air for these revelers
Read all of our series ~ Creativity Verses Form
white noise of silence
sleeping sea shells remember
salt crusted stories
It takes what it takes. To hold on or to let go. One reckless dawn, she let go. Of hope. Of trust. Of the benefit of doubt she generously, or come to think of it…stupidly, doled out, as his white lie turned grey and then to a murky, mangled mound of deception. This time, a slow, deliberate, beautiful anger showed up inside her, holding a mirror to her gutted soul. She wrenched this image from reality and sent it searing through a Time warp so she could label it a memory. For years now, she’d had it sliced away leaving a scar…a scar that screams scarlet…still. What made her think of him? She’d put away his shirts. She’d put away the smell of him on hers. And then today, she’d slept in long white tee that he so loved taking off. She held on.
Mindfills for dVerse Prosery hosted by Sarah Southwest. We are asked to write poetic prose of 144 words, that includes the line, “she’d had it sliced away leaving a scar”… from a poem by Michael Donaghy
David of The Skeptic’s Kaddish and I began a fun poetry partnership in April. We celebrated writing together a 100 verse renga, The Hyakuin And within days, decided we would absolutely love to continue our writing collaboration and what has grown to be a warm friendship with a new poetry project.
We decided to explore poetry forms. A to Z. Each week one of us chooses a poetry form the other responds to. We completed our first series Form verses creativity in June ’22. And we’re now on to the next set of poetry forms A to Z ~ Creativity Verses Form. We added a little twist for version2.0, with a key word starting with the same letter.
For D, Sangeetha selected the Dodoitsu form and the keyword ‘Desire’
Dreams of desire, you design
Wild promises, I scatter
Like confetti on New Year
~ Nightmares closing in
Sweat glistens on soft, sheer hairs
Musky scent tantalizes
Sultry sweltry fantasies
Stuck, buried in sand
and the falling leaf
pirouettes into restless death
as the earth unfolds
David of The Skeptic’s Kaddish and I began a fun poetry partnership in April. We celebrated writing together a 100 verse renga, The Hyakuin And within days, decided we would absolutely love to continue our writing collaboration and what has grown to be a warm friendship with a new poetry project.
We decided to explore poetry forms. A to Z. Each week one of us chooses a poetry form the other responds to. We completed our first series Form verses creativity in June ’22. And we’re now on to the next set of poetry forms A to Z ~ Creativity Verses Form. We added a little twist for version2.0, with a key word starting with the same letter.
For C, David selected the Cadae form and the keyword ‘Crisis’
Skeptical
or
apathetic
or
lacking perspective,
as a youth, I was unconcerned by
crises
both far and near to home
Now I'm terrified
Everything
seems to be getting
worse; global pandemic; wanton war;
unabashed corruption at the top...
Could I please have childhood back?
Planet Earth
at
precarious
point!
Plunderers pocket
precious moments of tomorrow's child
The air
is frail, the waters weak
Pandemonium
in jungles
as species die out
Oceans roar in pain, glaciers melt
Depleted, defeated, Earth cries out
Life needs to be saved! Please Help!
Mindfills 