My 1st Sparrowlet
South of Ukraine... not by Russia... Stuck in Moldova... Gosh, such a frustrating and unforeseen pain that my wife is there and thus - a traveler stranded with no plane... Not by Russia... South of Ukraine...
d’Verse prompt: The Sparrowlet
At d’Verse, poets were prompted to try their hands at constructing sparrowlets:
- meter: iambic tetrameter;
- a sestet โ a poem with 6 lines;
- the first ยฝ and the second ยฝ of line 1 make up a refrain, which is switched in the final line;
- rhyme scheme:
- XXXA XXXB
- xxxxxxxb
- xxxxxxxa
- xxxxxxxb
- xxxxxxxa
- XXXB XXXA
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
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Glad your wife is safe and sound… Stay blessedโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
โค thanks, Diana! โค
We have collected many useful links in order to help #Ukraine ๐๐ https://besidestheobvious.net/2022/02/28/help-ukraine/
thanks!
I hope all is well by now. Take care.
๐ Kally ๐
The brevity here just underlines the stark and bleak reality. May all be safe with you and yours, and may the people of Ukraine survive this with their country and sovereignty intact.
Amen, Joy, amen.
Get Home safely, I hope your family is doing well.
โค Anjali โค ~ thank you so much. My wife is now at the airport in Bucharest, on her way home, thank goodness!
Yours,
David
I hope she reached safely, I am happy for you. God bless.
Prayers & peace โจ๐๐ซ
Amen.
Peace David to you and your family. I am so regretful of the state of the world in your neighborhood. America and Israel arenโt perfect, but we are free and together. Russia as dominated by Putin is the problem. God bless Ukraine and may God send a blessed aneurysm to Putin.
I second all of this, Steven. My sentiments too.
Really witty writing with the switch in line one and six. Wishing you both a safe reunion.
โค Darius โค ~ thanks! She's on her way home now from the airport in Bucharest!
Relieved for you, David โค๏ธ
Any new word, David?
Thanks for asking, Lisa โค
She's in the airport in Bucharest, on her way home, thank goodness…
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Oh, wow. Hope she’s okay. In the meantime, rhyming Russia with “such a” is fecking brilliant.
She’s at the airport in Bucharest now, on her way home, thank goodness! (and thanks, Alexandra!)
sending love and prayers…. truly maddening and sad we even have to talk about this penned well though David! ๐
๐๐ Cindy ๐๐
A clever accounting of the mess in Ukraine that has touched your life via your
wife’s travels, wonderful.
๐๐ Paul ๐๐