The big five o calls for something special. I think it also calls for a break. I’d like to catch up on writing and shop around some of the manuscripts that are just sitting on my computer getting old and boring. So, this challenge will be the last one until I get a few things sorted out. Houses being one of them.
For the fiftieth challenge, I’ve scrapped what I had planned and thought of this idea this morning. I’d be pleased if you give it a whirl. The rules are simple, a single stanza of five lines of ten syllables each. The five end of line words all rhyme, so I strongly suggest you pick a selection of rhyming words before you start.
The image I had chosen I’ve decided to keep because I like it. The title is ‘Constellations’.
Please post the link to your poem in the comments box before next Thursday, or if you’re Ken, just post your link in the comments box.
The city night is full of light and noise,
I try to pierce the glare of neon toys,
Flashing glitter creating false day ploys.
Beyond the garish din the calm destroys,
A million stars the gentle night sea buoys.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
Hope you get few things sorted out, Jane 🙂 and good luck
https://ladyleemanila.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/poetry-challenge-50-fifty/
Thank you! I’m certainly going to try 🙂
Hi Jane, Nina and I are on blog break for about a month, for similar reasons, but I’m (still) working on Pain and Freedom, and I’ll put this on the to-do pile as well. Will post all when we return.
Hope you get your own to-do list whittled down! (K)
I look forward to reading what you come up with. Hope your break is fruitful too 🙂
Thanks!
Lovely as always, Jane, and a nice send-off. Good luck, and see you again soon.
Thanks 🙂 I’ll still be around and posting, but it takes a lot of time doing these challenges and I don’t have a lot of that at the moment.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your amazing prompts. I’m going to really miss them, but I will (somewhat begrudgingly) admit you deserve a break. I hope the housing and writing and living goes well, and look forward to reading your stuff.
Oh, and here’s my poem:
https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/constellation-a-50-poem-for-jane-dougherty
Thanks Sarah 🙂 I’ll miss the interaction, but if I don’t do something with all this stuff I’ve written, I’ll begin to ask myself why I bother doing it.
I don’t think I’ll wait six days for this one.
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/stellar-view/
You could have waited five 🙂
https://claudiamcgill.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/spread-across-the-night-sky/ And Jane, I hope you get things all shipshape soon, and without too much craziness. Thanks for your inspiration on this and so many other things.
Thanks Claudia. I hesitate to call it burn out, but it’s close.
Well, I am feeling for you, and hoping that things get into order soon.
Thank you. I big long rest is all I need.
Jane–thank you, thank you, thank you for all the challenges. I have learned so much!
I totally understand about taking a break. I am so overwhelmed with work myself, and SO behind on all of it because really all I want to do is write poetry and stories. 🙂
Good luck on getting it all sorted out–houses, writing, life.
Here’s my poem. 🙂 https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/constellations/
I hope you get up-to-date with everything and come back soon, Jane. We will all miss you and look forward to seeing the fruits of your labour.
https://writinginnorthnorfolk.com/2016/09/29/in-honour-of-the-moon/
I won’t go away entirely, Kim. Just take more of a back seat. The challenges, reading and replying is taking up all of my time, much as I enjoy it, and I really ought to be doing something to boost my own writing.
I’m afraid my mind can’t write around this, so:
I just want to say
Thanks for letting me sometimes play
Enjoy your time away
Look forward to your return some day
PS: My name is Lorraine. Once a highly kept secret.
Thanks for revealing the closely guarded secret! I didn’t get the notification of this comment, but WP has been playing fast and loose with our blogs lately. Thank you for the postcard poem and remember, like Dr T, I’ll be back 🙂
This was a fun little rhyme exercise Jane. It has a limerick quality to it…at least that’s how mine turned out. Thanks for hosting and for all the lovely inspiration. Happy writing to you!
kat
https://kmmyrman.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/star-war/
Thanks Kat, and thanks for being such an assiduous follower. I’ll be back eventually, I’m sure 🙂
Congrats on hitting the big 5-0 challenge!
http://wordsandfeathers.com/2016/09/29/fifty-20160929/
I feel as though I need a long lie down now, like for six weeks!
Go ahead! Relax when you can.
I will 🙂
All good things come to an end…I have felt so fortunate to participate in and learn from your challenges and I will miss them. I wish you all the best in your writing, publishing, and new home. If only there was enough time for Everything! I’ll be posting my effort soon. I actually did something for last week but put it on a back burner…to be revisited.
You’re more serious about your work than I am then, Janice. If ever I leave somehitng to finish it later, I lose it. Glad the challenges have been profitable. They certainly have been for me, really made me investigate forms of poetry I’d never heard of before. I’ll be back, I’m sure, when I have some spare time 🙂
And you have created forms for us to try as well 🙂 hope to see you back but only if you feel pulled…
We’ll have to see. I’m still running the microfiction challenge which is more than enough to keep me occupied for the moment 🙂
I can well imagine!
Nice 🙂 The stars do look like fireflies in the painting. I hadn’t seen that.
https://learawrites.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/from-down-below/
I’ll reply here because Akismet is eating my replies otherwise. Loved the poem. The inventiveness of your rhyming knows no bounds! Spectacular.
I had to take part in this, Challenge No. 50, it’s like the big one and wanted to wish you love and laughter for all that is about to come your way in terms of house and home and happiness and writing. May the constellations align for you.
https://deuxiemepeau.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/constellations-beauty-burning/
If the constellations aligned for me, I’d feel really special! A bit of happiness and peace would be very acceptable though 🙂
Hi Jane, hope I amnt late…here’s my fifty
https://srisudhak.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/one-night/
I’ve just seen this, Imelda and the link doesn’t work. I’ll see if I can track it down.
Nope, can’t find it on your blog. Where did it go?
https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/2017/01/25/drawing-constellations/