Writing prompt for tinywords 15.2
As we assemble the new issue of tinywords, 15.2, we hope you?ll look up and be inspired by Michele L. Harvey?s airy vision of summer, ?Firmament.” The photographic image of Michele?s painting appears here with the artist?s kind permission. It’s nothing but blue skies, green pastures and quite a display of clouds. Just the stuff to bring out a poem or two.
Add your best efforts in the comment box below. We’ll include the stand-out poem or poems in the up-coming issue of tinywords 15.2 that will go online in early September.
About the artist:
More of Michele L. Harvey?s fine art and poetry can be enjoyed at her website, micheleharvey.com.
July 27th, 2015 at 8:24 am
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old seed packets
the summer names
of war
Alan Summers
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August 26th, 2015 at 9:04 am
really like this
August 26th, 2015 at 9:12 am
Thank you Deborah that really does mean a lot, for so many reasons.
warmest regards,
Alan
July 27th, 2015 at 8:36 am
Clouds playing–
such imagination
July 27th, 2015 at 8:54 am
weathering the storm
I dream myself
a perfect summer
July 27th, 2015 at 9:10 am
the road home
twisting turning lost then found
clouds whisper
July 27th, 2015 at 9:14 am
almost free
of dark clouds
latest scan
July 28th, 2015 at 6:56 pm
Blue Skies
they remind me
of his blue eyes
July 27th, 2015 at 9:31 am
They gather slowly
Whispering thunder darkly
When to send rain
July 27th, 2015 at 9:32 am
cabin puzzle
slowly the sun comes out
summer rain
July 27th, 2015 at 9:57 am
places to go
animal shapes in the clouds
i stop on the hill
July 27th, 2015 at 9:57 am
the road to Oz
encompasses the clouds
as its compass
July 27th, 2015 at 9:59 am
summer skies
pillows on blue
along the long trail
July 27th, 2015 at 10:07 am
All of these poems
look like they're going to be
haikus, but they are
NOT
July 27th, 2015 at 10:24 am
Lying on my back
mirages
in the sky as well
July 27th, 2015 at 10:31 am
cool breeze …
a hint of sunshine
behind your smile
July 27th, 2015 at 10:40 am
Grassland—
I scramble for as many
breaths as I can get
July 27th, 2015 at 10:44 am
deep summer grass
the shape
of daydreams
July 27th, 2015 at 11:12 am
cloud cover
we see in their shapes
their shadows
July 27th, 2015 at 11:26 am
for this moment
the benevolence
of a flat tire
July 27th, 2015 at 12:04 pm
storm clouds shadow
sloping green pastures,
the farmer's red dirt road—
on the horizon, trees darken
at our approach
July 27th, 2015 at 12:31 pm
countless clouds
bountiful trees
only one road
July 27th, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Ascending stairway
Flanked by day lilies and moss
Backyard birds abound
July 27th, 2015 at 1:31 pm
rolling hills rise up
beneath cloud-dotted blue sky
Heaven’s tears linger
July 27th, 2015 at 1:50 pm
no matter how high
the path still leads to you
clouds
July 27th, 2015 at 1:53 pm
only breath
between your body and mine
horizon lines
July 27th, 2015 at 2:08 pm
lost and found
a hawk’s feather
pointing the way
July 27th, 2015 at 2:19 pm
summer sky
the swirl of ice cream
In a root beer float
July 27th, 2015 at 2:42 pm
it never
ceases to amaze
how gently
clouds reveal
impermanence
July 27th, 2015 at 3:13 pm
the dust
of a dirt road
rolling clouds
July 27th, 2015 at 4:41 pm
fractal clouds…
the deeper blue
of nothingness
August 26th, 2015 at 9:13 am
gorgeous
July 27th, 2015 at 6:48 pm
nebula
the cross pollination
of my dna
July 27th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
cornflower field . . .
here and there the sway
of queen anne’s lace
July 28th, 2015 at 9:12 am
What a wonderful haiku!
July 27th, 2015 at 8:07 pm
a time to dance . . .
the space between
clouds
July 27th, 2015 at 8:31 pm
twirling
through chicory . . .
pairs of cabbage whites
July 27th, 2015 at 9:06 pm
fair weather
my steps buoyed up
by cumulus
July 27th, 2015 at 10:41 pm
hydrangea clouds –
how i long to find you
through the maze
July 28th, 2015 at 1:19 am
the satnav
lost for words
big sky
July 28th, 2015 at 3:19 am
while lying back my belly bleu majorelle
.
note: 'bleu Majorelle' is Majorelle Blue, the color French expat artist Jaques Majorelle (1886-1962) used for the walls of his cool leafy gardens in Marrakech.
July 28th, 2015 at 3:22 am
these summer clouds —
the ability to change
should be so easy
July 28th, 2015 at 4:19 am
endless ways
to create beauty
summer skies
July 28th, 2015 at 6:36 am
empty mailbox –
going and not coming back
the clouds
July 28th, 2015 at 7:56 am
Summer afternoon
I’m lollygagging on grass
The sky is so vast
How can I celebrate it
In thirty-one syllables
July 28th, 2015 at 8:46 am
Earth bound
Clouds invite me to soar with them
July 28th, 2015 at 9:03 am
off the grid
tuning into
windswept clouds
July 28th, 2015 at 11:42 am
grape harvest morning of hot air balloons
July 28th, 2015 at 12:00 pm
summer afternoon
a boy at the school window
reads the clouds
July 28th, 2015 at 2:09 pm
pain reliever watching the cloud whales go by
July 28th, 2015 at 5:52 pm
merging black clouds
the forecasters got it
wrong again
July 28th, 2015 at 7:54 pm
deep blue
with white puffs rolling
these dirt roads
July 29th, 2015 at 8:38 am
partly cloudy
a memory of heat
lingers between us
July 29th, 2015 at 11:29 am
winding path leads home
beneath cloud-dotted blue sky
where we fell in love
July 29th, 2015 at 2:06 pm
Pinball in play—
how Da Vinci freed
caged birds.
July 29th, 2015 at 3:22 pm
cloud shapes
if only I could change
as effortlessly
August 11th, 2015 at 2:27 pm
Beautiful and full of meaning, so expressive.
July 29th, 2015 at 3:29 pm
clouds drift away
I find the path
of second chances
July 30th, 2015 at 2:47 am
hovering above soldier’ dreams cotton candy clouds
July 30th, 2015 at 3:15 am
hovering above soldiers’ dreams cotton candy clouds
July 31st, 2015 at 1:08 pm
changing clouds
this time we take
the backroad
August 1st, 2015 at 8:10 am
summer clouds we could walk all day
August 1st, 2015 at 8:30 am
farmer's hands
farmland
in every scratch
August 1st, 2015 at 12:42 pm
country road
rolling on for miles
leisurely clouds
August 1st, 2015 at 4:12 pm
so many clouds
plump and round
and apparently rollicking
over their big blue meadow —
kids in a playground
– Rosemary Nissen-Wade
August 1st, 2015 at 4:35 pm
cloud covered road
beckons dreams
a parallax view
August 2nd, 2015 at 7:06 am
Where a road takes you Unknown until end is reached Never go alone
August 2nd, 2015 at 7:32 am
Green surrounded road Cotton filled blue sky above Peaceful place to be
August 3rd, 2015 at 7:49 pm
shouldering our packs
we walk through the clouds
and into the sea
August 4th, 2015 at 6:30 am
back from the war…
every cloud has
a silver lining
August 4th, 2015 at 9:48 pm
as simple
as country clouds
summer days
August 7th, 2015 at 3:52 am
gentle breeze
a boy on the swing
kicks a cloud
August 8th, 2015 at 3:46 am
it comes to this
the space inside the centre
of cicadas
August 9th, 2015 at 11:08 am
between clouds
all our chances
gathered in rainfall
August 13th, 2015 at 6:16 am
Wonderful poems by both Claudette and Joanna.
Joanna, a question:
Did you make your poem a separate post as well as a reply to Claudette's poem?
I think your poem is worth being seen by more people.
warm regards,
Alan
August 9th, 2015 at 8:04 pm
distant thunder rolls
carefully I add some gray
and fold my easel
August 10th, 2015 at 7:39 am
folded into
the morning's silence
empty road home
August 11th, 2015 at 9:29 am
summer picnic
the conversation drifts
with the clouds
August 11th, 2015 at 1:55 pm
summer clouds
baby smell
against my lips
August 11th, 2015 at 8:05 pm
I fall into this love
like a new equilibrium
with the sky
Kat Lehmann
August 12th, 2015 at 9:32 am
a beautiful day
extra whipped cream
in my waffle cone
August 20th, 2015 at 6:53 pm
late summer —
dandelion seeds scatter
cerulean skies
August 25th, 2015 at 11:31 am
shapes in the clouds
change with the wind –
what do you want to be…
August 26th, 2015 at 9:07 am
the hint of anger
in your voice
summer's end
January 22nd, 2016 at 3:05 pm
thank you for this post.
July 1st, 2016 at 9:57 pm
great poems by both Claudette and Joanna I think and is worth being seen by people.
your regards, gbwhatsapp