Bare earth rose: buckled,
eroded craggy outcrops
on the horizon,
exposed to a breathless sky
and Aurora’s lotus sun.
Kim M. Russell, 2017
‘Cracked Open’ by Ally Saunders
My response to Tuesday Poetics: Ally Saunders – A Closer Look
This week Mish is hosting Poetics and has a guest: Ally Saunders, an artist from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Ally is one of the fine artists featured in Mish’s previous poetic prompt, New Beginnings, and agreed to tell us a little more about herself in an interview with Mish, which you can read on the dVerse website, and to share her work to stir our poetic muses.
Our prompt today is to take a closer look at Ally’s collection featured in the post OR from her website. Mish wants us to within ourselves, find our own interpretation and write a poem. When using an image of Ally’s work, we must remember to credit it properly with her name and a link to her website, allyart.ca. I chose a colourful piece entitled ‘Cracked Open’, which links to yesterday’s Quadrille prompt – dawn.
writing in north norfolk 
Love what you did with this. Simple and yet so colourful and descriptive.
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Thanks Paul!
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Love the lotus.. .so vibrant and filled with joy…
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Thanks Bjorn!
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Beautiful! Especially “exposed to a breathless sky.” 🙂
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Thank you, Lillian!
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Love the simplicity of this … so much captured in so few words.
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Thank you!
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Well done Kim. I love how your short amount of words say so much. Beautifully written.
I thank you.
Ally
Allyart
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Ally.
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You are proof that verbosity can be replaced by beauteous brevity. I see the lotus in your hair.
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You are too kind, Glenn, and thank you kindly.
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exposed to a breathless sky, sounds to me like the sky and all creation are waiting in awe of the event, very nice!
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Thank you, Walter!
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🙂
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I liked the idea of the sun imagined as a lotus.
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Full of hope, beauty and positive energy! A lovely, concise response to the prompt.
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Thank you, Mish!
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Love the tanka, specially the last two lines Kim ~ Aurora’s lotus sun is perfect capture of Ally’s photo ~
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Thank you, Grace!
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Super!
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😊
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Lovely imagery in very few words. 😀
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Thank you, Maria!
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Oh, that breathless sky! It’s interesting seeing the same painting used by different people with such different results. This is lovely.
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Thank you, Sarah! I’m staying with my daughter in Guildford at the moment with my dodgy Kindle that changes my words, so I won’t be doing any posting until I get home. However, I have been taking photos. 😊
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A new look at creation. I like this
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Thanks Debi, I’m delighted you like it. 😊
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Brava.. 🌹🌹🌹
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Thank you, Dorna!
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Love that “breathless sky,” especially.
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Thanks De! I took in some breathtaking views today on a walk with my daughter and her dogs on the Pewley Downs in Surrey. I took plenty of photos from which I hope to develop some poems. I’m back on line fir a few days on Friday but will be off again for Mum’s funeral.
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beautiful….so much in so few words!
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Thank you, Sree!
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exposed to a breathless sky
and Aurora’s lotus sun.
One just has to acknowledge the forces of nature upon earth’s structure. Strong and regularly impacted!
Hank
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Thank you, Hank!
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A wonderful poem, and what an outstanding painting. Wow.
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Beautiful imagry.
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A wonderful melding of words and art. Well done!
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Thank you, Sarah, but I’m trying to work out how it was posted! I wasn’t feeling well yesterday and just checked on a Kindle to see what the prompt was for the weekend mini challenge. This morning, there’s an old post linked to Brendan’s prompt!
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The intensity of the poetry dances magically with the sharpness of the image. Beautiful.
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Thanks Magaly! I still don’t know how this old post was linked to the prompt 🙂
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It wanted to come out and play again, I’m sure. 🙂
Would you l like me to delete the link?
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Might as well leave it now, Magaly, seeing as people have left comments. I wasn’t at all well yesterday and when I checked on the Kindle whether the prompt was up, I must have touched something without knowing. I’m safer with an old-fashioned keyboard!
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You and me both, lol!
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Very pretty poem. K.
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😊🌈
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