Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
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Spring is almost here. Green is about to burst. The Wordsmith Studio Friday Poetry Prompt is Green. The Poetic Bloomings Prompt #99 is Green. Hm, Poetic Bloomings is about to have its Centennial Prompt next week 🙂
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Green has millions of colours
Millions of eyes to see it
Innocence, naivete or simply freshness
In the mountains of summer
© 2013 Mariya Koleva
Mean What You Say… sort of – The very fun prompt suggested by Walt comprises a list of words whose antonyms we are supposed to use to make our poems.
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impair – sanction;
timidity – boldness;
chaste – corrupted;
sober – naive;
power – weakness;
loudly – sotto-voce;
angel – demon;
transparent – obscure;
skulduggery – purity;
problem – strength
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Springtime boldness of desire, sanctioning our weakness,
Corrupted, though naive, just whispering
In sotto-voce, like a demon struggling
To obscure our judgment, our better wisdom
And fighting back the purity of frost
The silent strength of winter in our souls,
Is here.
© 2013 soul mary
After a long, longish absence, I am happy to be back on the Poetic Bloomings site and on one of their prompts. This is a great and curious prompt. You know how a wordle works, right? Well, this, as I called it “Evasive Wordle” works almost the same way. Only, you have to replace the original words with synonyms or descriptions. Or, were descriptions allowed? Hm, not sure, but anyway, I used some.
Here is the wordpool: challenge, common, mask, skill, origin, love, night, drink, beauty, death
Enjoy my Evasive Wordle, entitled
Gorgeous Sight on the Dance Stage
The gorgeous sight on the dance stage
before my eyes
is a harsh ordeal
beyond my ability, yet
I have to overcome it
while wearing the dull disguise
of one seeking escape of life –
its boredom and affection.
My ability abandons me
from dusk till dawn.
I have to sit and sip in lonely gulps
what someone brings me,
of nature unknown,
just to see my leering mirror reflection
and remember the gorgeous sight on the dance stage.
© 2013, Mariya Koleva
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
A very good question, asked by Marie Elena and Walt at Poetic Bloomings – Prompt #66
Mellow as a rotting melon
Arrogant beyond belief and reason
Raw and rigid as barbarian
Interested in plenty things, ignorant of most
Young in spirit, yawning all the time
Ambitious to leave a trace, futile.
Kilograms of tears, kilotons of explosion – all too easily spent
Outstanding when it comes to theory
Loving mainly herself
Enthusiastic to dive in regular depressions
Very hard to please, impossible to live with
After all that above, should we really care?
2012, Mariya Koleva
Poetic Bloomings #57 – The Walk of Life
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the walk of life lies
beyond the pond of liking
along my palm-line
© 2012 Mariya Koleva
Hello, here is Marie and Walt’s form-prompt in Poetic Bloomings: Tri-Coupled Sestet. You can read the rules as per Mike Grove (special feature for the form) extensively on their site.
I myself may simply add that the form is very difficult for me (as are all forms, in fact) and it will go very well with music. My poem is pure trash, but it observes the rules 😀 Anyway, enjoy!
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Believe you me, I’m not afraid
I simply need to get well-paid
In trance expecting chance will fly away from me.
It’s really sad to trust in numbers
But not so bad to live in glamour
While life runs by and gives no reason to believe.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva
My fellow-poets and friends Marie Elena and Walt started a new project: Poetic Bloomings and here is my response to their first promt:
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They say
you plant the bulbs in autumn
And wait till spring
to see the colour
of the tulips.
The rest is nature, time
and chance.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva