It was interesting to see the very different sayings that you have taken to heart. There’s possibly a message in there if you want to analyse it 🙂
First one in was from Kim. One of my favourites this week.
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
Broken Clock | writing in north norfolk
Kat Myrman with
” Just breathe”
Just Breathe | like mercury colliding…
Peter Bouchier with a veritable collage of Dutchlish
Another tremendous medley of hard-hitting sayings from Doug, the Elusive Trope, with music.
When I said Kim’s poem was one of my favourites, I’d be hard pressed to say which one’s weren’t my favourites. Ken’s poem is hopelessly romantic.
“The time of our lives.”
The Time of Our Lives | rivrvlogr
Kerfe gives us a lesson in how to be creative.
“Method in his madness.”
Mitchell Thread #7 | method two madness
Carol’s reverent
“Burning the midnight oil.”
My Time~Free Verse | WritersDream9
Janice sent this one that many of us will empathise with
“Let sleeping dogs lie.”
Let sleeping dogs lie–Jane Dougherty Poetry Challenge #11 | Ontheland
Geoff Le Pard with a first, playing with the saying:
“See the glass half full.”
Mum’s cup was half full
Never one to moan
Make do and mend
A mantra driven home
By constant repetition
In every little way
Forget about tomorrow
Live your life today
She smiled through frustration
And turned her back on pain
Every time she fell far short
She’d stand and start again.
But of all the cliched lessons
She taught me without words
It was her lack of judging
Other people’s deeds
It’s all about the choices
That each of us can make
You may want to smile
But allow him his grimace
Her personal philosophy
Might be summarised thus:
Let each be as they want to be
And never make a fuss.
Merril’s is entitled Resolute in hope but it’s really about sayings in general, musings on the people who use them, and our ancestors who thought them up, passed them on to be mangled, translated and remangled. Nice one.
Resolute in Hope | Yesterday and today: Merril’s historical musings
Thank you all for finding the time over the festivities to take a break and write a poem for this challenge. You can’t say it wasn’t worth it 🙂 Tomorrow’s challenge is going to be…harder.
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It was fun seeing how different all of these were!
I agree! There’s so much creativity just waiting to be nudged into the open 🙂
You’re a good nudger. 😉
I thoroughly enjoyed that collection of poems. The diversity and depth never cease to surprise me 🙂
It’s a gamble. If the prompt is a very flexible one, it can be intimidating. This one paid off. As you say, there is a wealth of good poetry there. Tomorrow’s prompt is going to be much stricter, but not necessarily difficult. You’ll just need to be disciplined 🙂
Now I am curious 🙂
Another great group of responses (due to good prompt of course!). (K)
Of course! Ready for tomorrow’s challenge?
Hopefully!