My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – Madrigal This week Bastet has treated us to a mini history of Italian poetry and introduced us to the Italian madrigal, a pastoral or love song written in lines of seven or eleven syllables and consisting of two or three tercets followed by one or […]
Tag: Birds
Flutes and Birds
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge month May 2nd (2) “shadows of leaves” The Flute player, Charles Amable Lenoir. French (1860-1926) found on Pinterest shadows of leaves cover the open holes her flute forgotten © Jane Reichhold listening to a bird croon spilling its rich, liquid tune […]
Common Terns
My response to Carpe Diem #962 bird feathers Image found on http://www.rspb.org.uk haunting the wetlands sea swallows soar and plunge feathered acrobats © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Early Morning Exaltation
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics : Poetry is for the Birds, inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29: “the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate”. Up with the lark’s early morning exaltation of exclamation curlicues and marks that punctuate the sky thrillingly trilling high above open fields […]
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