Maureen Sudlow has accepted my Renga Challenge! We will complete our ten-couplets here. If you have not stopped by Maureen’s beautiful blog, kiwissoar, I highly recommend it! She shares poetry and photos and her quest with painting. Her New Zealand photographs are a highlight of my days. My opening couplet is inspired by one of her posts.
Like sweet peas in water colors
echoes cross the river
evening cloud
a rainbow bleeds into the sea
tinting the sun in primary hues
drying too quickly to deny the ache
ripples on the water
the emptiness of space
reverberating in time
with the heron’s solitary call
beyond the path of the whale
footprints of seabirds along the sands
breach from my throat in warbled tones
a solo song of love’s unrest
until, like love
the echoes fade, and die
to rupture again, and again
in clouds of ash and iron and mud
Join us at Jilly’s January Challenge of Casting Bricks to Attract Jade for some collaborative poetry; everyone is welcome!
