Falling – The Elephant's Trunk

What A Trip! – A Cinquain

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #41
where our inspiration is “trip”.
Here’s my mirror cinquain.

Written for Esther’s Writing Prompts #86
incorporating the word “shade”.
Here’s where the prompt led me.

Written for dVerse Poets – Quadrille Monday 209 – Plucking Strings
Our host Lisa asks us to include the word “string(s)” in our piece.
This is my free verse poem based on a true story as told by my mother.

My father’s mother hated my mother for marrying her son.

Returning from their honeymoon, my parents visited her mother, then his mother.

When his mother opened the door, she pushed my mother down the stairs, breaking the string of pearls around my mother’s neck.

dVerse — Quadrille Monday 209 — Plucking Strings

This is “A String of Pearls” by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.