#music - Verses and Hues

16 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 16: The Language of Music

NaPoWriMo Day 16: Because it’s Friday, today I’d like you to relax with the rather silly form called Skeltonic, or tumbling, verse. In this form, there’s no specific number of syllables per line, but each line should be short,...

#artoonsinn, #ArtoonsInnPoetryParlour, #life, #music, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2021, #peace, #rhyme, #rhythm, #serenity, #skeltonic

12 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 12: Waltzing to Life’s Rhythm

NaPoWriMo Day 12: I’m calling this one “Past and Future.” This prompt challenges you to write a poem using at least one word/concept/idea from each of two specialty dictionaries: Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. A hat tip...

#artoonsinn, #ArtoonsInnPoetryParlour, #inspiration, #inspiring, #music, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2021, #rhythm, #versesandhues

15 Apr

A melody of love: NaPoWriMo Day 15

NaPoWriMo Day 15: The challenge today is to write a poem inspired by your favorite kind of music. Try to recreate the sounds and timing of a pop ballad, a jazz improvisation, or a Bach fugue. That could mean...

#day15, #harmony, #life, #love, #melody, #music, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2020, #romance

22 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 22: Enlivening music

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that engages with another art form – it might be about a friend of yours who paints or sculpts, your high school struggles with learning to play the French...

#art, #emotions, #feelings, #ghazals, #jagjit singh, #JagjitSingh, #music, #NaPoWriMo, #NaPoWriMo2019, #poem, #songs, #thoughts

21 May

Poem: Smile- An Enamored Jewel

Seek Miracles In Life Everyday Smile my dear, smile it away For your smile sways all the pain Your smile renders you humane The gateway to everyone’s heart Is the warmth that smile imparts A...

#attitude, #beauty, #empathy, #feelings, #fun, #heart, #humane, #inspiration, #laughter, #life, #love, #music, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #power, #silence, #smile, #sound, #trust, #virtues, #words, blog

23 Apr

NaPoWriMo Day 23: Wish I could change this moment

And now for today’s (optional) prompt! Kate Greenstreet’s poetry is spare, but gives a very palpable sense of being spoken aloud – it reads like spoken language sounds. In our interview with her, she underscores this, stating that “when...

#change, #child, #dream, #feelings, #hear, #inspiration, #life, #lyrics, #moment, #music, #nostalgia, #phrase, #poem, #poetics, #poetrychallenge, #responsibility, #song, #sound, #wish, #words, blog

06 Mar

Rhythm of Life

The susurration of leaves falling in Fall The pitter-patter of ambrosial raindrops The whispers and whistles of the evening breeze The swashing and swooshing of waves on the beach Do you hear the rhythm in symphony of nature?...

#animals, #birds, #breeze, #earth, #existence, #expectations, #experience, #feelings, #freeverse, #leaves, #life, #music, #nature, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #rain, #rhyming, #rhythm, #spring, #thoughts, #tree, #words, blog

16 Dec

Haiku: Winter

early winter breeze aroma of snow and chill heart chimes to cold rhythms The post follow the prompts given by Colleen for her Weekly Tanka Challenge# 62. She has challenged us to use synonyms of “bells” and...

#3lines, #5lines, #bells, #christmas, #cold, #Colleen’s Weekly, #haiku, #japanesepoetry, #micropoetry, #music, #nature, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #rhythm, #season, #snow, #tanka, #winter

24 Nov

Twittering Tale: Symphony

Kat hosts Twittering Tales every Tuesday. The challenge is to write a tale in less than 280 characters, based on the image provided by her. Here’s my take on it: Miriam had been playing the piano since her...

#death, #eulogy, #facts, #keys, #life, #love, #music, #piano, #romance, #shortstory, #story, #symphony, #truth, #twittering tale

02 Nov

Haiku: Melody

music stringed by words words veiled under rhythmic treat dawn of melody Linked to Haiku Horizons for the prompt “treat” for week 192

#dawn, #feelings, #haiku, #haiku horizons, #harmony, #life, #melody, #music, #nature, #poem, #poetrychallenge, #rhythm, #treat, #words

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