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| Photo courtesy of "Few Miles" blog for Haiku Challenge |
Commitment embraced
Valiant promise to protect
Sweetest innocence
Margaret Bednar, Art Happens 365, February 2, 2011
Margaret Bednar, Art Happens 365, February 2, 2011
I am also linking this poem to "Short Story Slam Week 12" (October 12, 2011) The picture prompt is:
Below was written in February of 2011:
This is day 2 of February's "Haiku Challenge." The sweet photo above is today's prompt. The subject for tomorrow is "Mother". Consider giving it a try!
The poem below was quite a challenge. It is for "Magpie Tales #51" AND One Stop Poetry's "Form Monday - Ballads". (I missed the linky this week for One Stop, but next Monday's form is also ballads and I will submit my poem then.) The form is four lines per stanza (quatrain) and the rhyme scheme is A-B-C-B. Eight syllables in the first and third, six syllables in the second and fourth. The stressed syllables of the iamb should fall on the last syllable of the line. E-gads. This is getting hard!
The photo prompt for the Magpie is at the bottom of the poem, provided by the host, Tess Kincaid of "Willow Manor". My photo of the urn and brick wall is part if my "365 Day Photographic Journey" - a photo a day for a whole year.
"The Brick Wall"
We walked and talked the whole night long
Under a gleaming moon.
Behind the wall hidden from view,
He kissed me, that warm night in June.
Like the brick wall we leaned against,
My heart afire and gleaming.
His brand engraved upon my soul
Our passions simmering.
Moulded as one, solid and true
Throughout our wedded bliss.
Fine clay in his artisan hands
Our bond sealed with a kiss.
by Margaret Bednar, Art Happens 365, February 2, 2011
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| Photo courtesy of Tess Kincaid |
