Her beach walk was at midnight
Moon and stars her only light
She came across a sand castle
She thought a life with no hassle
Morning dawned and hid the stars
A blazing sun revealed scars
While darkness lured her to a pledge
Now she sees a cliff’s edge
A stretch of sand under the moon
Can be a Sahara Desert’s rune
Be wary of light that only appeases
More than one is beguiled by a brain teaser
Linking up with Dversepoets.com (Thursday open link) and Linda Kruschke Paint Chip Poetry.
Today’s theme comes from page 154 of volume 1 of 1000 Quotable Poems. The theme poem title is “The Country Faith” by Norman Gal. You have these seven paint chip words and phrases to work with: brain teaser, midnight, beach walk, dumpling, castle, cliff’s edge, and Sahara. Please use at least five of these in your poem. For extra bonus points, write your poem in rhyming couplets.
I managed to use 6 words and in rhyming couplets.
This is lovely. I felt like I was on that beach walk.
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I Thank you Linda. Such ana ray of words. I’m always amazed!
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I know. I sometimes want to put some back and try again for more words that seem to go together, but I resist the urge. It’s supposed to be random after all. Maybe next year I’ll change things up and pick one I think go together. Maybe not. 😊🙃
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A good word of wisdom!
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Thank you!
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Those word snippets together created an interesting poem. Walking the beach with only natural light and coming across a sand castle is a very vivid image.
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Thank you!
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You’re most welcome, my friend!
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Good job! That was a difficult challenge ….
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Yes, it was. Thank you!
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Well written Mary… 🙂
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Lovely poem!
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I read this twice, the second time I understood it better, but both times it gave me nice shifting lilting feel. I think it is true that in a setting of imperfect or midnight light, things appear so differently than in light of day, teasing our brains. Likin gthis. 🙂
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Such wonderful wisdom in this one! 💝💝
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