Here’s the challenge: Look at five to ten of the latest poems you wrote and find last lines that are rich with possibility for a new beginning. If none of your last lines leap out at you, simply pick one you like and use it for today’s prompt. It will be the first line (or two) of your brand new poem—long or short—that you write this weekend.
Life's weathered memories
wrapped in bridges of time...
wrapped in bridges of time...
arrive in newsprint n' sepia thoughts
woken by faded blooms
pressed in brittle yellowed pages
hints of pale pink hues scent
past whispers
Faded n' chipped pearls remember...
the dance of tender
green shoots filled
with spindly hope
cascading towards
the indigo destiny
Humble beginnings planted
fragile and young
tucked in a delicate quilt of'
lavender dreams
washed with
blessings
outlining the soul's
connected dots...
© Ellen Wilson
This feels like a dream, Ella...so many, many beautiful colors and images play here...I like the sepia and newsprint...delicate quilt of lavender dreams. Making me want nap sweetly this afternoon, my friend. Beautiful! ♥
ReplyDeleteHannah,
DeleteI hope you and your family are making the best of those snow filled days! Yes, I too am dreaming of spring :D
Thank you! @>-----------
Ella, what a beautiful painting and poem this morning!!!! So many wonderful lines: "tender green shoots filled with spindly hopes", and the "lavender dreams washed with blessings"........lovely writing!
ReplyDeleteSherry,
DeleteIt is a rubber stamp! I was playing with this image. She reminds me of Mother Nature :D
Thank you! I think spring inspires all of us~
I love the hints of Spring within your lines, Ella. It is so subtle: the pale pink, the green shoots and the lavender dreams. Very beautiful poetry.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kerry! Spring lives in my heart~ I think we constantly have to reach n' grow ;D I hope your heat wave has ended and you are enJOYing wonderful weather~
Deletegorgeous Ella!
ReplyDeleteHi Laura, loved your photos-visual poetry! ;D
DeleteOh, Ella, I love the idea of a delicate quilt of lavendar dreams washed with blessings..... Intricately worded!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I guess spring is in my heart always! Especially need a sign today, lol :D
DeleteLovely poem Ella,
ReplyDeleteThank you Tatius :D
DeleteI'll be by soon to visit!
This is lovely specially: delicate quilt of
ReplyDeletelavender dreams ~
Thank you! I wish I owned such a quilt-my daughter does ;D
Deletei love how you tie it up at the end with connecting the dots.
ReplyDeleteI didn't notice till later the dots around her face! lol
DeleteThank you :D
"Faded n' chipped pearls remember...
ReplyDeletethe dance of tender
green shoots filled
with spindly hope
cascading towards
the indigo destiny . . ."
Really love all of its imagry, but here especially love the old remembering the young, winter remembering spring reaching into the sky. It is a second chance, built off another poem, connected in quilts and the yellowing pages of books. None of this is ever out of date. Someone could draw a beautiful collage from the details in this poem.
Thank you Susan! I guess I better get busy and create a collage ;D I'm in the middle of making cupcake flowers-I'll show you later! Zany, but fun on a cold winter's day :D
DeleteYes, I long for signs of spring! I had way to much of winter between Maine and Alaska(twice)! Yes, the first poem I posted below is about a rainbow~ Thank you!
Such beautiful imagery. I remember being young with that delicate quilt of lavender dreams....
ReplyDeleteThank you Susie! I want my quilt back, lol ;D
Deletei love your use of colors throughout, Ella! this is beautiful with such delicate but vivid imagery! i wish you had included a link to the poem you selected the line from!
ReplyDelete♥
DeleteGrey mattered memories enchant wishful glances
of youthful thoughts
capturing the dance of light
against the prism of colored tears
Chakra spirals try to balance
the yin and yang
of life's weathered memories
wrapped in bridges of time
It is a poem about a Rainbow :D
Thank you Dani <3!
oh, the original poem is beautiful, too, Ella! thank you for sharing it!
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dani
I just love "tender
ReplyDeletegreen shoots filled
with spindly hope"
— beautifully done, my dear Ella.
K
Thank you Kay! I know I look forward to spindly, spring hope :D
Deletedon't you?!
tucked in a delicate quilt of'
ReplyDeletelavender dreams
Wow! And this was created from an ending! Don't you just love prompts like these... to think this beautiful poem never would have been written.
Thank you Margaret...and I do! I think it is fun to experiment with what we have written! :D YOU are kind~
DeleteYour poem flows beautifully..very nicely done:-))
ReplyDeleteHello Valleypoet! Nice to meet you~
DeleteThank you so much :D