Haiku, Poem, Word Prompt

RDP Friday: mountain

Written for RDP, where Martha asks us
ย to get creative with the word โ€˜mountainโ€™.
Thanks, Martha! Hereโ€™s my take.

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Cinquain, Poem

Rise Up!

Written for Cinquain Poetry Prompt #15.
Our inspiration word is โ€œthriveโ€. I have
 written a Mirror Cinquain, a 10-line,
single stanza poem with a syllable pattern
of 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2.

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Flash, Short Prose

At Morn

Written for Sammiโ€™s Weekend Writing Prompt #401
using the word โ€œquagmireโ€ and Eugiโ€™s Moonwashed
Weekly Prompt
with the required word โ€œdrizzlyโ€.
In exactly 63 words, this is my story.

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Miscellaneous, Writing Exercise

If I Could Hear Fairies’ Wings

Written for The Daily Spur Writing Exercise where the challenge
is to describe an object using only the sense of hearing.
This is my description. The accompanying video
will reveal what I am listening to.

Listening to this apparatus I hear what sounds like gentle cascading waterfalls similar to a bevy of swans as it glides onto and across a lake.

If I could hear fairiesโ€™ wings fluttering or hummingbirds hovering at their feeders, I believe they would sound like this.

Thereโ€™s a regal quality, as well, like that of stately Baroque dancers performing a minuet.

Closing my eyes and listening intently, I see images of mushrooms sprouting through the earth, flowers opening, plants unfolding and trees shooting up to skies.

I can hear an arrow quivering through the air and insects buzzing by my ear.

The sun rises, slowly spreading glorious light from ocean to ocean and the silhouette of a ballerina pirouettes across the horizon.

I hear sand dunes shifting and snowflakes collecting on holly branches.

The heavens open as an albatross soars higher and higher to the tone a finely tuned Steinway.

A choir of angels is singing.

NARยฉ2024

This is J.S. Bach’s โ€œToccata and Fugue in D Minorโ€, usually played on a pipe organ. Here is Amy Turk … harpist, arranger, composer and session artist from the UK … playing Bach’s iconic piece which has been transcribed for the harp, the item I was describing.

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