Tag Archives: trees

My Log Cabin

Posted on August 13, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for dVerse Poets Pub – Poetics: Outside Looking In (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) ” -conjure an imaginary house of any size, any place, any age -fill it with an imaginary person/people past or present, or ghosts, or leave it … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged animals, dreams, fireplace, log cabin, scent, trees | 6 Comments

A Cento of Nature

Posted on April 23, 2021 by purplepeninportland

Written for: April 2021 PAD Challenge – Day 22 “Write a nature poem.” Hope is the thing with feathers who moves his soft velvety head. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air call to you, harsh and … Continue reading →

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One With Nature

Posted on December 14, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Sunday Muse #138 I am a facelost in a cloudwhose mist befogstops of evergreenslike white smokemountains. http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged clouds, nature, trees, woman, Written from Art | 13 Comments

Revisiting A Childhood Memory

Posted on December 7, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Sunday Muse #137 That old cabin of his childhood– now an ashy frame of forgotten time. Without windows, he could see clear through to the back. Trees were twisted as if they had given up. A pale sun … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged cabin, childhood home, owl, rundown, trees, Written from Art | 12 Comments

Endless Beauty

Posted on October 14, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: dVerse Poets Pub – Three Little Words (posted by (sarahsouthwest) “Choose one of the 3-word combinations, and write a poem 3-12 lines long.” field, memory, magic In my memory I slow-stepped fields, meandered meadows of magic color, trees … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged meadows, nature, trees, water, Written from three words | 14 Comments

What of Beauty

Posted on August 27, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet: Quatern A Quatern is a sixteen-line French form composed of four quatrains. – It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. – It has a refrain that revolves to a different place … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged beauty, fish, ignorance, mother nature, Quatern form, sky, trees | Comments Off

Oh My Aching Knees

Posted on June 3, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Go Dog Go Cafe – Tuesday Writing Prompt: “Write a pieces of prose or poetry around the phrase, “on our knees”. On our knees we searched for my keys increasingly displeased by the wide hem of trees from … Continue reading →

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“gossiping trees”

Posted on May 13, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: The Twiglets #176 – “gossiping trees” Keep away from me, Elm. That Dutch disease may arise again. Would you just look at that cherry, always weeping. Japanese maple burgundy feathers sway looks like an umbrella There once was … Continue reading →

Posted in Purple's Home | Tagged Haiku, limerick, Micro-poetry, self-respect, talk, trees, weeping | 2 Comments

Autumn’s Gold

Posted on April 10, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Poetics Aside April 2020 PAD Challenge – Day 9 Write an ekphrastic poem. Gold of autumn shines through trees Tell me who walks these woods, please, in whose outer limits, dwell dark seas. A light beckons me to follow its … Continue reading →

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Sevenling . . . three robins

Posted on March 26, 2020 by purplepeninportland

Written for: Poetic Asides Countdown to Challenge: T-minus 7 – Write a short poem. For: Poetic Bloomings2 – InForm Poet – Sevenling “The first three lines should contain an element of three. It could be three connected or contrasting statements, … Continue reading →