Thank you to
for joining in last week with your stories that explained the uneasy look of the child on the escalator. Apologies that once again I wasn’t able to reblog all of them.
I’ve chosen a couple of lines from Francis Ledwidge this week from his poem The Dead Kings. The Turner seems to illustrate them, or one aspect of them, to me. I’d like you to write a poem, any kind of poem, inspired by the words, the image, but also by the title of the poem and the fact that it is a war poem. Ledwidge didn’t write poems from the trenches full of mustard gas and fox holes, but full of longing for his native countryside and observations of the countryside he saw around him, even when it must have been shelled almost out of existence.
A few stars glimmered through the morn,
And down the thorn the dews were streaming.
From The Dead Kings
Hope this appeals. Looking forward so reading the results.
Forgot to add, if you join in, please leave a link to your poem in the comments by next Tuesday and I’ll try to reblog.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
Thanks, Jane! Beautiful intriguing words, and also that Turner!
I love that painting and the words are lovely despite the context.
Yes, that’s what I thought, too.
🙂
Beautiful!
If you feel inspired, just leave a link to your post in the comments. I keep forgetting to add that part (by next Tuesday).
Love the Turner too. Thank you to all the contributors, will re-read all asap. Best wishes, Michael
Thank you, Michael 🙂
Always with a great pleasure, and many thank s for your efforts bringing great poetry to the light.
I try 🙂
You are very good in this, Jane! Thank you, and have a nice evening.
Nice of you to say so 🙂 Have a good evening!
Its the truth, Jane! You too.
🙂
Turner is another favorite. (K)
I do love a Turner. Was lucky enough to see The fighting Temeraire and Rain, Steam and Speed last year. Just absolutely amazing.
https://lynnmlovewords.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/jane-doughertys-pictures-and-poetry-challenge-3-a-hope-of-home/
There was an exhibition here a few years ago and the French discovered Turner. They were extremely impressed.
I’m sure Turner’s later style wasn’t appreciated by the art world here at the time, but I gather the impressionists admired him a short while after his death. It’s a wonderful thing to see an artwork in the flesh, especially one you’ve only previously seen in reproduction. So very human
His very impressionistic style must have seemed very impenetrable at the time, but he’s generally recognised as as genius now.
Even the word Impressionist was an insult originally, want it? Must have seemed a works away from the Renaissance artists so many still revered. I’d prefer Impressionism any time, myself
suitably grim…
https://kblog.blog/2020/04/03/in-the-country-of-the-blind/
http://tao-talk.com/2020/04/04/pictures-and-poetry-challenge-3-unholy/
I did this instead of the NaPoWriMo prompt today. I saw that Kerfe had written a pantoum (though I didn’t read it yet), so I decided to do the same. 😀
https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/2020/04/05/the-clouds-come-drifting-napowrimo2020-day-5/
Did you even read to the end of the NaPo prompt? I gave up after number three.
No, I don’t think I read it all either. One or two of things would have been enough.
I can see it might lead to a string of nonsense that might be fun to write, but whether you could get a poem out if it….
Yes, I agree.
thanks for the prompt, Jane 🙂
https://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/pictures-and-poetry-challenge-3/