A ‘Magnetic’ free verse quadrille
gentle rain on ancient fertile seed
river of sweet poetry wets earth
water murmurs with secret song beneath
warm spring sun watches from above
life's thick fresh roots growing deeply
sacred tendrils climbing up through the grass
winter's beautiful cold frost spirit will wither
Notes
- For this poem, I decided to make use of the ‘Nature Set’ on the Magnetic Poetry website;
- I chose this set because it contains the word ‘seed’, which was required for this d’Verse quadrille prompt;
- A quadrille is simply a poem of 44 words (excluding the title), and it can take any form. This week’s challenge was to use the word ‘seed’ in a quadrille.
- I searched for and found the featured image only after I had written the poem.
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Fabulous photo.
Judy, I agree, but I can’t claim credit for it – it’s a free stock photo that I found on Google Images 😀
All best,
David
Wow. I kept wanting to pick individual lines, but I’d have just copied the poem into the comment. There is so much imagery and metaphor in this piece, I don’t know where to start. Thank you for such a wonderful read.
💝 TLR 💝
As always, you paint quite a picture here. I delighted in “river of sweet poetry”. My adoration from the coming tendrils of spring was equaled only by my sadness of the withering of winter. Absolutely good stuff, friend.
💗 Masash 💗
Beautiful imagery! ✨
💓 Rachael 💓
Wonderfully engineered David — nice work! 🙂
💖 Rob 💖
Beautifully done. Planting trees of wisdom with woven “tendrils”👍👍😊
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I do find winter beautiful. So happy it wasn’t portrayed as a ‘bad guy’. It so often is. Beautiful words!
💛 Susan 💛
Great quadrille! It is as if the wonderful secret of life is being played out with quiet intention. Enjoyed this very much.
🤍 Carol 🤍
I love it David! I could feel the poetry of he rain and the deep roots and the sacred tendrils in the grass! We got our first good rain today, after more than a month of dry weather. This one really resonates!
Dwight
💜 Dwight 💜
That is just lovely, David. The tendrils imagery is grand. But my favorite words: water murmurs with secret song. Perfect.
🤎 George 🤎
How fun! I really like that last line. I bought some magnetic poetry kits to use with my klecksography (inkblot illustrated poetry). Here’s one I did with the mustache kit which I see is now available online. https://experiencewriting.com/2020/03/20/innovations-in-klecksography-changing-the-shape-of-the-paper/
💚 Maria 💚
A quadrille – 44 words is a little longer than usual. Love the triumph of spring over winter!
I was lucky that ‘seed’ was included in one of the magnetic sets 😀
Wonderfully written Ben 👍👋
Thanks, Srikanth
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David
Beautiful and hopeful!
💙 Lucy 💙
A poignant quadrille, David!
🤗 Ingrid 🤗
Gorgeous.
🥰 Amber 🥰
This captures the essence of early spring – rainy days, germinating seeds and the emergence of snails and slugs. What a fantastic photo too – I love snails!
Yeah – I was looking for a photo of a seed or an underground river, but I came across this one, and it was just so beautiful that I had to upload it 🙂
A lovely description of the beauty that spring is bringing 🙂
❤ Dave, thank you ❤
Lovely! A good companion to my Oracle tendrils this week. (K)
I am honored to be in such esteemed company 🙂
This is quite evocative, David. Sometimes those magnets will lead to an unexpected direction.
Yeah ~ this was written with no prior expectations, Ken.
Thank you ❤
David
I see you’ve persevered with the magnets and you’re getting true poetry out of them rather than gibberish! This is full of what turns the cold earth into fertile flourishing spring. I can smell it 🙂
Nice work, Ben–ancient seeds and rivers of poetry. 💙
A wonderfully creative poem, David, with a little Fibonacci on the side! I was not aware of the Magnetic Poetry website. Great source to kick start the muse! Thanks.
It’s a fun website! I discovered it through Kerfe and Jane!
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David
What a beautiful river of poetry to read!
❤ Thanks so much, Marieke ❤
Your magnet poem turned up so many of the elements – especially loved “river of sweet poetry “
That’s my favorite line too, Laura 😀
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David
Gorgeous.
❤ Helen ❤
lovely – fancy turning a bunch of magnets a) into a quadrille and b) into a quadrille that contains a lovely metaphor of poetry and seeds. really amazing!
You’re very kind, Worms. Thank you.
Yours,
David
I love how much you could catch from those magnetic words…
Me too ~ they really allow for so much!
Thanks, Björn ❤
This is exquisitely drawn! I especially love; “water murmurs with secret song beneath warm spring sun.” Woww!! 😀
🤍 Sanaa 🤍
Nice work
🙏 Mercy 🙏
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