Poetry challenge #34: Snow geese

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

Arkady Rylov_Blue_Expanse.jpg

As usual, post the link to your creation in the comments. Looking forward to being uplifted 🙂

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Jane Dougherty

I used to do lots of things I didn't much enjoy. Now I am officially a writer. It's what I always wanted to be.

43 thoughts on “Poetry challenge #34: Snow geese”

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

    1. 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 🙂

  3. 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?

    1. 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.

      1. 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.

      2. 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.

      3. 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.

      4. 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).

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