If you are a regular at our pub, you know the drill. For those new to Q, write a verse of exact 44 words (excluding the title) using pepper or any form of the word like peppering, peppered or peppermint.
Salt and pepper on your food,
Should be applied according to taste.
To presume regularity totally rude.
Salt and pepper on your food.
A restaurant argument once ensued,
All civility abruptly erased!
Salt and pepper on your food,
Should be applied according to taste.
44-words
So, I challenge you to take this familiar object and theme—go beyond cliché and write something unique (in 44 words). Mirror, mirrored, mirroring—use some form of the word mirror in your poem.
Peeking over the wooden rail
Moments after we set sail.
A reflected visage made me wail.
Decades are cruel, I confess.
A mirror image I didn’t know.
Lay atop the surface below.
Seeing myself a mighty blow.
When did I become such a mess?!
44-words
https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/15/quadrille-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/
New to the Q? Here’s your map of what to do:
Pen us a poem of exactly 44 words, not counting the title, and containing some form of the word map. Post your poem on your own blog, and link up using Mr. Linky below. Then travel around the blogisphere to read some of the best poets around. The Quadrille is open all week, so be sure to come back to read and write some more!
The map to our existence
Belongs to each individual.
Choices are abundant.
Guidance is available.
Forgiveness is ubiquitous.
Those who KNOW us, don’t.
Follow ‘the good’ and ‘the fruitful’
purposes and you’ll
Fulfill the glorious meaning
of your life.
Time should not be wasted.
44-words
https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/01/quadrille-175-mapping-out-our-poems/
Here’s how to Quadrille:
– Write a poem of exactly 44 words, including the word revolution.
– Put your poem on your blog and link back to this post.
https://dversepoets.com/2023/04/17/quadrille-174-you-say-you-want-a/
Sunshine higher in the sky
Brings a wake-up lullaby.
Peepers chirp melodic voices.
Robins sounding out rejoices.
Thawed out soil soon dampened sweet.
As stubborn winter drags its feet.
Taunting the impatient
with relentless brutal winds.
Same weather revolution
Every time the Spring begins.
44-words
Grab your plume, and let your words zoom across the page to form a poem of just 44 words (not counting the title) and including some form of the word zoom.
Vacuum teased wood-handled broom,
“You may swish but I can zoom.”
Broom unshaken by the brag
Tossed vacuum’s way a rag.
Vac inhaled then lost its buzz,
Producing clouds of dusty fuzz.
Broom swept-up and left the room.
Did the job without a “zoom”.
44-words
https://dversepoets.com/2023/04/03/quadrille-173-zoom-poems/
Shift is the word to fit into your quadrille this week.
Shifting
Viewpoints rival.
Thoughts building steam,
Roaring toward enlightenment.
One question
Birthing many more,
Intertwining and bursting,
Loud intellectual pursuits take shape.
Our symphony of lore.
Enigmas gasping for viability.
A universe of endless possibilities
Sweeps forward a cacophony of distractions
…while Truth whispers.
44-words
https://dversepoets.com/2023/03/20/quadrille-172/
Here’s how to take part in the Quadrille Prompt:
• Write a 44-word poem containing the word music (or variations)
• Post your quadrille on your blog and link back to this post.
• Place the link to your post on the Mister Linky page.
• Don’t forget to check the little box to accept use/privacy policy.
• Please visit other blogs and comment on their posts!
• Have fun!
When not ‘tuning-in’ to other’s plights,
We’ll ‘face the music’ of our pride.
Vain afflictions spawn new “rights”,
When not ‘tuning-in’ to other’s plights.
Selfishness of hasty fights
All soberness denied.
When not ‘tuning-in’ to other’s plights,
We’ll ‘face the music’ of our pride.
44-words
https://dversepoets.com/2023/02/20/quadrille-170-music-is-my-refuge/
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