as the molecular waviness
of sky and sea
busking elemental music;
as cool sand
beneath uncurling toes
and wind unfurling strands
of hair like wheeling gulls;
as a ladybird on its way home,
flying between blades of grass
before it lands
on my hand.
Kim M. Russell, 2017
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Monday Quadrille – free
De is keeping the dVerse bar this Monday and she has chosen ‘free’ as the word to fill our Quadrilles this week.
writing in north norfolk 
I love the image of that ladybird and the elemental music.. really think the simpler you make it, the less complex freedom is.
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I agree 🙂
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This makes me crave salty toes like nobody’s business. Goodness.
LOVE:
“as cool sand
beneath uncurling toes
and wind unfurling strands
of hair like wheeling gulls”
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🙂
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PS: Aren’t ladybugs at the beach just the BEST? Such a contrast of color, too.
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I love them wherever they are! I haven’t seen many this year – I wonder where they all got to.
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You’re right! I’ve hardly seen any!
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A beautiful quadrille Kim, I love how sky and sea are ‘busking elemental music’ and the ladybird stopping by on her way home with a message for you from beyond the stars :o) xxx
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Thank you, Xenia! 🙂 xxx
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Superb images of freedom.
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Thanks Paul!
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Sumptuous similes – especially ‘wind unfurling strands of hair like wheeling gulls’ – so much freedom in that
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Thanks Laura!
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Lovely,- not sure how you managed to get all the elements to complement each other so seamlessly. 🙂
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Thank you, Vivian!
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You’re welcome!
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I liked the last one about being free as a ladybug.
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“Sky and sea busking elemental music” ! I dig that.
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🙂
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This is beautiful, rhythmical, and musical. A poem after my own heart. ❤
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Thank you so much, Crystal!
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Oh the imagery in this poem. ❤️
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Thank you, Maria! xxx
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lovely images of “freedom”
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Thanks Margaret!
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Lovely images – ‘molecular waviness of the sky’ – and the final slowing neat couplet – as the ladybird lands.
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Thank you so much for reading and commenting, Peter.
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I love the poem. Is that ladybug on a surfboard?
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I’m not sure – I thought it was stalks of marram grass, but I could be wrong – a ladybird on a surfboard would be cool! 🙂
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Indeed!
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Ahhh …… this gives me a feeling of freedom
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🙂
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Particularly like the gull-hair image! You made me take a big, calm breath of pleasure with this one.
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Now that makes me very happy, Sarah!
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This flows so freely with metaphor. The opening phrase is superb (as are others): “(free) as the molecular waviness of sky and sea busking elemental music;”
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Thank you, Janice!
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I particularly like the phrase “busking elemental music”
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“as the molecular waviness
of sky and sea
busking elemental music;”
LOVE the personification of sea and waves and sky as buskers! 🙂
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I was singing Joni Mitchell’s wonderful song ‘For Free’ just before I wrote this – it’s found its way into the poem.
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Always, Stupendous writing!
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Thank you, Dorna!
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This is beautiful- as cool sand
beneath uncurling toes
and wind unfurling strands
of hair like wheeling gulls;
Wonderful and exhilarating.
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Thank you, Alison.
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