Tuesday Photo-Spring

Nothing says spring like a robin-even when there is snow on the ground! Welcome to spring 2013. This picture was taken Saturday afternoon, shortly after the snow began.





 

This is approximately the same spot Sunday morning. Not a robin in sight!

 

I'm reprising a poem I posted a couple of years ago called Snow in Spring.

 

I hope your spring has a little more spring in it than mine does. Either way, take a picture of it and post a link in the comments on this week's Wordsmith Studio Photo Prompt.  Thanks to Linda G Hatton for this week's prompt.

 

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Tuesday Photo-Yuck

 

 

This week's Wordsmith Studio Photo Prompt is Yuck! Thanks to Rebecca Barray for this prompt.

 

To me, dirty snow is always good for a yuck. I found some leftover from our late winter snowstorms.  It seems the snow at shaded street corners gets the most yucky.

 

What makes you say yuck?  Take a photo and post a link to it in the comments on the prompt post.

 

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Poetry Form-Pantoum

It's been a while since I tried writing a form poem, so when Robert Lee Brewer posted a challenge on Poetic Asides; I took the bait. The form is Pantoum.

 

A pantoum is composed of 4-line stanzas (quatrains). The minimum is two, but there is no maximum.  The second and fourth lines in a stanza become the first and third lines in the following stanza. "Robert's rules" suggested that lines two and four of the final stanza be the same as lines one and three of the opening stanza.  Lines one and three rhyme, and lines two and four rhyme.

 

I still had snow on my mind (and in my yard) so I wrote about a storm.  I had to backtrack a few times to make both the rhyme scheme and repetition work. Following is the finished product:

 

Stuck

 

The storm hits

with two fists

Traffic sits

Windows mist

 

With two fists,

hold the wheel

Windows mist

View concealed

 

Hold the Wheel

The storm hits

View concealed

Traffic sits

I made the choice to keep all lines at three syllables. I thought the rhythm and the shortness of the lines fit with the theme.

 

I enjoyed writing this pantoum and think I will work with this form again.

 

Have you ever written a pantoum? Do you write any form poems or do you steer clear of traditional forms?

 

Links that might be of interest:

 

WD Poetic Form Challenge-Pantoum Winner

 

Poetic Form: Pantoum

 

The Our Lost Jungle Poetry Form Challenge Summer 2012

 

 

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Tuesday Photo-Move It

 

This is both how and what I have been moving recently. We had a pretty significant "snow event" last Thursday.

I grew up in Buffalo, New York. Sometimes snowstorms in Kansas City wouldn't be considered snowstorms in Buffalo. This one, I think, would be a snowstorm anywhere.

So, I spent a few hours moving with the shovel. I also had to dig around in the closet to find the boots. (See prints in foreground.)

We are getting another round of snow. I am going to be moving this way once again!

Thanks to Veronica Roth for this Wordsmith Studio Photo Prompt. 

Show us your favorite mode of transportation. Take a photo, post it, then place a link on the prompt page.

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