LOVE, SO ELUSIVE
Where’s the place where lovers escape,
and where plans of the heart take shape?
Where is undying love supremely crowned?
Is it found just in dreams?
It’s as I sleep, tucked in my bed,
that’s where I dream of being wed.
Where’s this undying love deemed to be found?
Sound asleep, in my dreams.
2016-08-04
P. Wanken
Written for Poetic Asides Form Challenge: Byr a Thoddaid
Robert Lee Brewer is an editor for Writer’s Digest, and hosts their poetry blog Poetic Asides. He provides weekly prompts, facilitates two Poem-A-Day (PAD) challenges each year (in April, for National Poetry Writing Month; and November, for a chapbook challenge that coincides with National Novel Writing Month), and throughout the year he introduces new poetry forms and often hosts a challenge for those new forms. The April and November PAD challenges, and the form challenges, result in a winner (or winners) being chosen.
In June this year, we were introduced to the Ovillejo form, and the subsequent challenge. Robert’s explanation of the form is here: OVILLEJO.
Today, August 1, Robert posted his selections for the top 10 Ovillejo poems. And for the second time in three months, my name was on the list! (See the list of winners here.) I had submitted five Ovillejo poems, and here is the one that placed in the top 10:
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TRANSFORMATION
We’re in desperate need of more grace
in this place.
Have we been reduced to primates,
filled with hate?
Guidance can come from God, above;
He is love.
In the end, when push comes to shove,
we’re family to each other:
sister, brother, father, mother.
In this place filled with hate, He is love.
Robert Lee Brewer is an editor for Writer’s Digest, and hosts their poetry blog Poetic Asides. He provides weekly prompts, facilitates two Poem-A-Day (PAD) challenges each year (in April, for National Poetry Writing Month; and November, for a chapbook challenge that coincides with National Novel Writing Month), and throughout the year he introduces new poetry forms and often hosts a challenge for those new forms. The April and November PAD challenges, and the form challenges, result in a winner (or winners) being chosen.
In January this year, we were introduced to the Tricube form, and the related challenge was posted in February.
Here are the rules of tricubes:
So we’re talking cubes in mathematical terms (to the third power). No rules for rhymes, meter, etc. Just three, three, and three.
On May 3rd, Robert posted his selections for the top 10 Tricubes. And for the first time in six years of participating in various challenges, my name was on the list! I had submitted three Tricubes, and here is the one that placed in the top 10:
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VISITING (H)OURS
Every day
he shows up
to have lunch
with her; she
doesn’t know
who he is.
He still comes,
because he
still knows her.
Almost made it to one hundred.
Thanks to all those who cheered me on in the "100 Days of Summer" challenge. I got behind a couple times and posted a day or two late, and nearly made it to 100 by the 100th day (yesterday). Stay tuned...November 4th kicks off the "100 Days of Fall/Winter."
Written for “Six Word Saturday”…click here to go to Cate’s blog to read how others describe their life in six words; also posting as Day 100 at “100 Days of Summer” challenge, click here to go to the group’s home page on Facebook.
balloons (borrowed from Bing.com images)
DAILY CHALLENGE
one thing
weighing on you
“packed”
in an imaginary bag
outside
it will float away
moving up and away
leaving you
free
while
stress and worry
move away
from your thoughts
you feel freer to
move and think
positively
during the day
2012-06-14
P. Wanken
This is a piece of “Found Poetry” as inspired by an online “daily challenge” site (meyouhealth.com).
echoes from the silence 