Some of you will be aware I’m not feeling brilliant at present, but the show must go on, so here’s this week’s challenge. I’ve chosen a painting (by Arkady Rylov called Blue Expanse) that I find gloriously uplifting. The light is so pure, the geese so splendid. Where are they going? Who is watching them? Is this a dream or a wonderful reality? See what you make of it. I can’t get my head together to write a poem this morning, so the choice of form, style and everything is yours.
Have a handful of words to play with, if you like.
Aerial, profound, murmur, splintering, spark
As usual, post the link to your creation in the comments. Looking forward to being uplifted 🙂
Jane Dougherty Writes 
Playing right into my lingering obsession with the ocean…(K)
An ice-cold northern ocean 🙂
Great to see there’s a tall ship in the offing. I’ll think of something.
I put it there specially for you 🙂
Wow, thanks! I’m honoured!
Well, then: this is my tribute to the ‘Flying Dutchmen’ seafarers who discovered Cape Horn 400 years ago, and to those following in their wake, many of whom didn’t live to tell the tale.
https://wordpress.com/stats/insights/peterbouchier.wordpress.com
Hang on, wrong URL. Here’s the right one: https://peterbouchier.wordpress.com/english-essays-and-poems-2/english-essays-and-poems/quo-vadis/
I wondered what was going on there!
Hi Jane! Sorry to hear things aren’t great. Thank you for managing to come up with such a beautiful prompt. I have responded to it: https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/snow-geese-for-jane-doughty
and I hope you are up and running soon.
There is something about your prompts which brings out my inner romantic – I think I’ve mentioned that before. I’m enjoying letting her out to play!
I’m not sure how uplifting it is, but I hope you enjoy it.
Love this one. I hope you feel better soon!
So do I. I’m sick of this. I’d make an unbearable chronic pain sufferer 🙂
Thanks for the prompt Jane. The picture is beautiful. Hope your ailment passes soon. 🌻
Glad you like the image 🙂 and thanks for the well-wishes. I just need a new life!
If only there was a wand for that!
There would be a big demand!
:))
Not too uplifting… oh, well.
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/desolation/
Mine is not too uplifting either, and it’s not a northern sea either. Let’s say loosely inspired by the painting. 🙂 https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/the-seafarer/
I thought yours was uplifting in a way. he was finally going home, what he should have done years before.
That is true. And his dog will be there to greet him, I hope. 🙂
And in this story, I hope he doesn’t immediately drop dead.
Haha, yes.
Hi Jane! I went with a cleave poem. Had tossed around trying a Rondeau, but I couldn’t make it work. And I am always fond of a cleave poem when there are several things happening in a photo or painting. Have a great week. Here’s my link:
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/spring-migration/
~kat 🙂
I’m cooking up my response and will probably post tomorrow. Your image and words helped me, which is great — I know I don’t really need to ‘warn’ you but I want to– my topic is quite serious and triggered by an historical novel that I’m reading.
Your poems are always thoughtful, Janice. One of the things I appreciate about them. There’s none of the navel-gazing, lust and pulpy lips that passes for poetry in some quarters 🙂
https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/northward/
http://wp.me/p1yn2L-TU
This will go up early evening, India time. 🙂
You are ‘earlier’ than we are, but not quite by this much—I’ll look back later 🙂
I know, but I thought “forewarned is forearmed”. 😀
‘Forewarned’ in my case is often ‘forgotten’ so don’t be afraid to nudge me 🙂
Hi Jane. Since my challenge entry wasn’t mentioned in your review, I thought I would doublecheck my link to make sure it was working…it links to your site on my computer. I am not sure why it is not showing in the comments here?
I bet I know. Last week WP was having problems with pingbacks. They weren’t working. I didn’t get any until Monday. There were fewer entries than usual and that’s probably why—I just didn’t get the pingback. I’ll go to your blog and find your poem and add it. There are probably a few other people in the same position. I’m sorry about that.
What a nuisance for you and other people running challenges!
I realised there was something funny going on when the Daily Post prompt that usually gets almost 200 replies was registering zero. There are probably a few that I just didn’t get at all, like yours. I hope they point it out. I’ve updated the post so yours is now the first one.
Thanks Jane for adding me in. I saw a similar lack of responses on the Daily Post Photo Challenge come to think of it! Regulars for your challenge will notice eventually… hopefully a new participant’s entry doesn’t get lost.
If they’ve fixed the problem we should be okay from now on. I notice a lot of people make a pingback but also post the link manually. It’s easier for me to work back through the pingbacks, but a link is a good security measure.
I guess I ‘ve been lucky with ping backs so far so long as I don’t make an error…I ‘ll have to consider a second link or a ‘next day check’ perhaps…thanks again…by the way this lost link led me to discover that I posted ‘at the wrong time’ for the daily post photo challenge as my link for that was lost too–I corrected that situation (relinked).
There must have been hundreds of poems that not many people saw, since the problem lasted several days.
That’s a shame. Hopefully we’ll all catch up in our reading eventually…
And maybe catch a few pearls to make up for the ones we lost last week 🙂