Color Me in Twilight
You paint me in indigo,
exploding hues of red,
left among apocalyptic orange,
a stroke of subtle tones
of intensifying yellow.
Color Me in Twilight
You paint me in indigo,
exploding hues of red,
left among apocalyptic orange,
a stroke of subtle tones
of intensifying yellow.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Twilight
Surrendered
breathless afterglow
Twilight kisses
good night
Final ?
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
twilight
takes over the solar
the sky is
polar
white is oh my.
Last edited by cacian; 10-10-2014 at 04:27 AM.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Sorry, I've been having a rough time with my bi-polar. It's hell sometimes to just be me.
Anyhoo-- JAKED-- you're up. Congrats, good description, very few but poignant words!
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Woohoo! Thanks Pendragon! I enjoyed all of the entires!
Next topic: wonder.
Deadline in 2 weeks, 10/24.
I wonder why I turned up here:
Blue sky, green grass, a mind less clear.
My blog: https://frankhubeny.blog/
from wonder to wonderful
to think is to perfect rule.
Last edited by cacian; 10-30-2014 at 03:53 AM.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Just two entries? Let's have one more week... Submit your entries this week - I'll judge on Halloween. Boo!
Wonder
Wandering
Wavering
Wish
What
Who
Where
When
Why
Wonder
Why
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Wonder
sparks
Wonder
driven
Wonder
full
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb
Wonder
No wonder
I don’t believe:
there is
no wonder.
I don’t believe
there is.
No wonder?
I don’t believe.
I wonder
about thunder
Heightening
with lightning
And the pain
of rain
Great entries!
YesNo: Your piece appropriately left me wondering why I’m here – and how I got here! I like the playfulness between the idea of a blank mind and one less clear…
cacian: I'm intrigued by “to think is to perfect rule” - will have to ponder that some…
Pendragon: What an enjoyable train of thought – I especially like the multiple ways you can read the ending.
Delta40: “Wonder sparks” – I want some!!! “Wonder driven” - would that we all were! “Wonder full”!!!
blank|verse: Both silly and profound – wonderful!
MystyrMystyry: “The pain of rain” – many ways to read this: for some reason made me wonder about rain feeling pain - being so close to lightning must hurt!
There can only be one winner, though, so on this spooky day it goes to …
blank|verse!!!
Congrats! Your prize, to share with everyone … this quote from Einstein:
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
- Albert Einstein
Thanks Jaked, and congratulations to everyone who entered.And thanks for the Einstein quote - it puts me in mind of Wallace Stevens's famous introduction to his poem 'Man Carrying Thing': 'The poem must resist the intelligence | Almost successfully' - the effect of doing which, of course, is to put the reader into a state of wonder and awe, something Stevens's poetry does to me on a regular basis.
Anyway, on to the next competition. If I may, I'd like to suggest something slightly different. Instead of a theme, I would like people to rewrite an existing poem, by a published poet, but reduce it to its bare minimum. Create a minimalist version of a favourite or famous poem - one of Keats's odes perhaps, or an Emily Dickinson poem, or The Waste Land - I'm sure you get the idea and don't need me to tell you other famous poems. But I think I'd look more favourably on contemporary poems by living poets; in this case, providing links to the poems would be good, if possible, as I might not have read the original.
I'd also suggest not being too flippant by reducing poems to a single word - unless you've got a very good reason - or submitting one on Dante's The Divine Comedy that reads 'Hell, Purgatory, Heaven' or similar. Try to use the words in the original poem but create a new and imaginative minimalist poem in its own right. I hope that makes sense!
In short - a minimalist version of an existing poem.
Deadline: Saturday, 22nd November, 2014.
Good luck! b|v
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