What’s this? A bonus Reverie?
I had very curious dreams last night which I won’t share all the details of here, but I will say that the last one ended with me attending a very libertine kind of soirée. At one point, to gain admittance to the next chamber, one had to write a poem centering on a long branch bursting with leaves and flowers. Not only that, but the poem had to be abecedarian, with each line starting with a successive letter of the alphabet. My trick was that I was going to write each short line on the underside of a leaf, which I was sure what intrigue and impress the party throwers, and get me in. But like Coleridge, my alarm to get up for work dragged me into consciousness after I’d only gotten two lines in. Bummer.
(Also, my subconscious is now apparently poem-prompting me. Oy.)
But anyway, the lines I got were: A garden / begins with… So rather than just save this story as a curiosity, I thought I’d toss it into the blogosphere. Start a poem with the two-word line “A garden“, and the second line “begins with” followed by whatever you want. Third line should start with C, fourth with D, etc.; and the whole thing should be somehow garden-themed. Consider this a mini-challenge to celebrate the midpoint of the year; it’s all downhill from here.
A garden
Begins with
Cracked soil
Dead leaves
Ethereal reminders of the
Fallen
Gardens of the past. That’s
How
It begins.
Just when you think you
Know it all
Life triumphs
Morbid thoughts reduced to
Nothing
Only love
Prevails
Quietly
Raggedly
Stoically
Till the
Universe in its
Vastness, a
Wondrous garden, today and
X number of days from today, fulfills
Your everlasting, all consuming
Zest for life
You know that noise Charlie Brown makes? The football word?
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If the heatwave doesn’t let up, we might expect more of this:
http://cloudfactor5.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/reverie-twenty-five-and-a-half-up-the-garden-path/
Can’t wait to try Maybe I will use abcediran with the challenge I put out of writing to the picture of a bed in a garden for Wednesday Wonders.
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Late on parade. I wrote this straightaway, but forgot to post it! http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/a-garden-list-cum-alphabet/ It was Margo Roby’s prompt for a list poem that reminded me.
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I loved this. Thank you!
Garden Path
A garden
begins with
cloaked words planted
deep, seeded promises sunk
end to end, feigning sleep in
fallow ground; sunlight found
golden on petaled skin. Be,
hold these lush and leafy thoughts with-
in, breathe them out for
just the moment it takes to
keep them beating. Some fleeting
lullaby of bartered breeze and
misty murmured rain
nestle nudges your tired brain stem,
open long enough for bud and bloom to
plow their long and
quiet trenches. Drenched in
rose water, lavender violet
sunset smile, these willowed wishes
tangle and twine
under thundered crimson
vines, hold hallowed counsel
with morning glories and nightingale,
xeric tongues quenched loose;
yawn and stretch and sigh and then,
Zen.
Also here:
http://whimsygizmo.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/garden-path/
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