Here’s your Reason 2 Rhyme for the week…
Write a letter to a landscape or scene you pass through today (or often). For example, “Dear Williamsburg Bridge,…”
I thought this was an interesting challenge, since it forces us to take a new look at familiar landmarks or scenes we might take for granted. Here’s my point of view on the view from my kitchen window…
Ozark Pond
The distance between us is ever the same
I stand
Fixed
While you wax and wane
Fickle as the moon.
As a lover, flush with money
You treat me to green banks
and rippling waters.
But only in the good times.
Now, the drought dries up your bounty,
No raining paychecks from the sky.
The scummy skin of deprivation
Stagnating
You shrink into yourself.
I wait for the coming change
and the day you will reach for me again.
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That’s it! Haiku, Cinquain, Sonnet, Villanelle, Blank Verse, Free Form, Limerick… it’s all welcome!
Very nice!!!
Here is my attempt this week, please feel free to critique
http://boomiebol.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/blue-oceans-of-water-reason-2-rhyme-letter-to-the-landscape-poetry-challengeprompt/
With pond and poem the pond’rer is not left deprived;
spring’s fickle waters will yet be restored and revived.
Eric
Eric – great response!
But the warming earth may not replenish
recycling res-pond-ish and poet’s wet-wish.
Randy (just a little silly-ish)
Oh, for heaven’s sake! You guys!
Very punny, Eric!
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They have the same effect of me every day as i drive towards them and under them. I am always awed by the Hanging Shoes
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Thanks, Randy, for sharing your poem, and your shoes. Appreciate you making me get up and open the dictionary too. It was very memoriable. Lol. PS- Quick-slung shoes are quick-lost soles we shall rue as winds bring toll, waving way for storm to come: Don’t stop now, Run, Forrest, Run! 😉
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I wrote this a bit ago, about the river behind my boyhood house. It seemed to fit so well — here is the link: http://poetscornerblog.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/river/
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Great post, I feel the need for rain. Our ponds are nearly dry and look so forlorn! ‘My river’, there is personality there, too, it spoke to me today. http://oldentimes.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/reason-2-rhyme-july-16/
Wish we could share the rain from down here in South Florida. Getting tons of it. Randy
“You shrink into yourself” How profound!!
Finally got mine done, it’s been a rough week. Thank goodness for my Sanctuary. Great job everyone! It’s interesting to see what everyone finds to write about! Here’s mine: http://singmylife.com/2012/07/20/sanctuary/
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Dear Karen,
I enjoyed the contrasting views of the Ozark Pond. You captured well the green riot of summer and the moisture sucking heat of a drought. Ponds are fragile things and very reminiscent of our planet Earth in miniature.
Aloha,
Doug
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