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| House with trees & clothes line - Walter Silver Photographs |
Dreams stifle behind closed shutters,
is why I slide wide the sash come eve,
let Milky Way sail in as crickets, katydids,
and great barred owl celebrate midnight
with mockingbird, come spring, serenading his ballad.
Bobcat's yowl and fox's scream used to scare
until I adopted them as my own, more expressive
than Steinway's ivory keys.
Saturday morn, linen is clothes-pinned,
corners curl upon breeze, sigh beneath sun's swelter,
shadowed side-porch's respite declined;
find myself downhill, grass-stained, "unlady-like",
eyes still bedazzled with stars,
imagine not knight in shining armor,
but myself, gallant lady upon white steed,
giving voice for new century.
by Margaret Bednar, April 28, 2019
This is linked with "Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Poems in April - Photographic Images Reimagined". I think I may have incorporated all three creative devises into my poem - ekphrastic, narrative and impression of sentiment from the photos... as I wasn't sure how to label it. Either way, it was fun and I used more than one image - even more than I posted here. Go to the prompt and try it for yourself.
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| Inez Milholland - Suffrage Parade |
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| Milky Way ... Thomas Ciszewski |
