Respite.
Vacation time.
Slowing, calming, lazing.
Superheroes deserve breaks too.
Freedom.
By Sarah ©2019
The Vacation
Category: Cinquain
Ignite
ignite
flickering spark
sizzling, glowing, burning
reactive phosphorus is now
aflame
Prompt: Olivante Poetry, #NaPoWriMo 2018 – Image 5
Spring
Prose Challenge – Write a story in no more than 100 words that includes the following words: spring, blossom, bud, nature, bloom
She smiled and felt relieved, as she closed the door behind her, suitcase in hand. He had stamped on her budding dreams for the last time. His controlling nature meant he was never going to allow her to blossom into the person she knew she deserved to be.
She recalled the first two lines of William Shakespeare’s Richard III, a favourite of hers from literature class, back in college: “Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun.”
Yes, she thought. But first there has to be a Spring.
And it was her time to bloom…
By Sarah ©2018
Poetry Challenge– Write a poem in no more than 10 lines that includes the same words in the list above.
verdure
dainty blossoms
budding, sprouting, blooming
nature’s vivid colour palette
springtime
By Sarah ©2018
Prompt: Sammi Scribbles, Weekend Writing Prompt #45 – Spring
Alight
Candles.
Alight. Blazing.
Huffing, puffing, blowing.
Attempting to extinguish a
beacon!
By Sarah ©2018
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip, 10 February 2018
Twilight
Twilight.
Starkly barren.
Glowing. Sinking. Setting
sun entraps Cimmerian shade.
Nightfall.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, No. 61 – stark and trap
Seduced
Allure…
Perturbed, confused.
Glancing. Gazing. Gaping.
Flittering heartbeats, we converge.
Seduced.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Saturday Mix – Same Same But Different, 2 December 2017, Synonyms used for the following words: meet – converge, look – glance, gape, gaze, annoy – perturbed, draw – allure, seduce, fly – flit
Flagging
Panic.
Deviant mind
flagging, wobbling, drowning.
Stoicism propels me to
withstand.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Saturday Mix, Same Same But Different – 4 November 2017; synonyms used: odd – deviant, fight – withstand, start – propel, weak – wobbling, tired – flagging
Voodoo
witchcraft
eerie, mystic
jinxing, hexing, charming
dual spirit, costumed servant
voodoo
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, Tuesday 24 October – eerie and costume; and also, Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge #186
Outside Myself
Being.
Confused; detached.
Watching, hearing, saying,
never understanding; I’m outside
myself.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Sunday Writing Prompt, #225 – Know Thyself
Blind Eye
Image credit Gerald Larocque
detached
lonely, spaces
drifting, slurring, blaming
quietly turning a blind eye
divorce
By Sarah ©2017
Author’s note: This is my first attempt at a Cinquain poem.
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, #55 – quiet and space; and also Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge #185
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