When it all becomes too much I get my nails done!
One-Liner Wednesday – Colours.
19 Oct 2022 15 Comments
in Autumn, colouring, inspiration, sadness Tags: colours, Lighten moods
Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #29. Use AUTUMN as your inspiration this week.
28 Sep 2022 9 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Autumn, inspiration, memories, Poems, Ronovanwrites, Sijo Tags: Autumn, colours, Custom
AUTUMN
Mum always said that when the Autumn winds blow, we need our vests, sun or no.
These days in winds keen I realise what she did mean.
Laves swirl and dance as chill days advance. So I wrap up warm.
#TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 288: #Tastetherainbow-Colour Poetry
06 Sep 2022 25 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, colouring, love, Poems Tags: colours, Nature, weddings
Its Tuesday again and time for Colleen’s Tuesday Tanka Challenge. Colleen says “Hello everyone. Happy September! This week, choose your own syllabic form and a color to feature in your syllabic poem. Think about the different ways you can use color in a poem.”
I have chosen a Tanka today. As I am going to a wedding later this week I have used it loosely as my subject. My colours are red and white.
The bride flows in white
Red-blooded groom full of lust
Hearts beating with pride
All part of Nature’s big plan
Yes it’s all procreation
#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 282, 7/26/22, #THEMEPROMPT
26 Jul 2022 46 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, colouring, inspiration, Poems Tags: colours, Dawn to Dusk, Longest Day, Nature
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
Here we are for another #TankaTuesday poetry challenge! Bought to us by Colleen Chesebro, this week it’s a Theme prompt selected this week by Harmony
This month’s theme is: “The Longest Day”
I chose to write a Diatelle but with a cheat.
The Diatelle is a fun, syllable counting form like the etheree with a twist. The syllable structure of the diatelle is as follows: 1/2/3/4/6/8/10/12/10/8/6/4/3/2/1, but unlike an ethere, has a set rhyme pattern of abbcbccaccbcbba. This poetry form may be written on any subject matter and looks best center aligned in a diamond shape.
The Diatelle form was created by Bradley Vrooman.
My cheat was I wrote in the alloted syllables per line but I wrote free verse… Sometimes rules need bending.
The longest day.
She
Rises
Too early
For me flashing
Throwing her glory round
Like a cloak of many colours
Gold, red and pink she blinds me with her light
Her warmth already fierce yet she will run the course.
By noon she has all but the mad beaten.
As afternoon spreads out she bakes us .
Languid we hide in shade
Evening she
Wains, colours
And heat
Fade.
#TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 272: #Tastetherainbow-Color Poetry.
05 May 2022 28 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, colouring, inspiration, Poems Tags: colours, happiness, Synaesthesia, Understanding
🌈 Taste the Rainbow refers to colors. You do not have to write about a rainbow in your poem. Just include a color in your poem. 🌈
I hsve chosen to write a Nonet. A Nonet poem has nine lines, with nine syllables in the first line decreasing to one syllable in the last line. The subject of my poem is Synaesthesia . Synaesthesia, the neurological condition that causes a blending of the senses – colours can be connected to letters and numbers, smells and tastes to music or touch to vision – has long been linked to creativity: famous synaesthetes include Sibelius and more recently Pharrell Williams and Lady Gaga.
Synaesthesia
The colours flew off of him like
sparks.
Warm hues of luxurious blue
Cosy bright sunshine yellows
White lines of energy
Synesthesia
Enhanced her. She
Told him, he
Said, me
Too.
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt No. 90 (ART) in the B rhyme line.
31 Dec 2021 7 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Ronovanwrites Tags: art, colours, Nature
Nature paints a picture daily
Rainbow of colours blown apart
Thrown upon the alter of art
Sping blossom bounces in gayly
Her pastel colours sway palely
Summer sails in all green and blue
Autumn’s russet and golden too.
Winter comes with a frozen lakes
Silver frosts and dainty snowflakes.
Our landscape refreshes daily.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 387 COLOUR(ed/s) and Three.
06 Dec 2021 16 Comments
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seasonal colours
the winter shades are threefold
chilling heads and toes.
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 385 LEAF(leaves) & Mound(s).
22 Nov 2021 15 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, colouring, humour, inspiration, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Autumn, colours, leaves
gold and russet leaves
carpet our autumnal walk
wind forms such lush mounds
Song Lyric Sunday. February 7, 2021 – Colours. Blue, Gold and Silver.
07 Feb 2021 20 Comments
in colouring, inspiration, Music, song challenges, Song Lyric Sunday, songs Tags: blue, colours, David Bowie, Gold, Jim Adams, Mary Hopkins, Silver
Good morning everyone, it’s Sunday and time for Jim Adams our dashing host to bring us our weekly prompt for Song Lyric Sunday, which is Colors or as I and my compatriates will say Colours. Jim also reminds our original host Helen Vahdati set us this prompt in 2017, hi Helen how are you 💜.
So colours hum so many to choose from which way shall I go? Oh! Yes David Bowie, Sound and Vision, “Blue , blue electric blue” and I chose my favourite version on 2013. To start with.
“Sound and Vision” by English singer-songwriter David Bowie which appeared on his 1977 album Low. The song is notable for juxtaposing an uplifting guitar and synthesizer-led instrumental track with Bowie’s withdrawn lyrics. In keeping with the minimalist approach of Low, Bowie and co-producer Tony Visconti originally recorded the track as an instrumental, bar the backing vocal (performed by Visconti’s wife, Mary Hopkin). Bowie then recorded his vocal after the rest of the band had left the studio, before trimming verses off the lyrics and leaving a relatively lengthy instrumental intro on the finished song. Selected as the first single from the album, “Sound and Vision” was used by the BBC on trailers at the time. This provided considerable exposure, much needed as Bowie opted to do nothing to promote the single himself, and helped the song to No. 3. The song was also a top ten hit in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. However, it stalled at No. 87 in Canada and only managed No. 69 in the United States, where it signaled the end of Bowie’s short commercial honeymoon until “Let’s Dance” in 1983.
In 2013, a remix was commissioned for the Sony Xperia Z smartphone advertising campaign.[12] The new mix by Sonjay Prabhakar utilized the original lead vocals and Mary Hopkin’s backing vocal with a new piano part by Rob Gentry. A Parlophone Records digital download was released on 7 October 2013.
Here is the advert that made me fall in love with the song all over again 💜💜💜
Finally here is the original in all it glory ! With lots of photos and videos in this clip it is great! Wasn’t he so beautiful and talented!
In 1977 I had been married six years and had had two of my three lads. My husband’s job took him away a lot at no notice and he worked long hours when he was around. So Bowie and his ilk kept me sane.
“Sound And Vision”
Don’t you wonder sometimes
‘Bout sound and vision
Blue, blue, electric blue
That’s the colour of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue
Pale blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
Blue, blue
I will sit right down,
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing, waiting for the gift of sound and vision
Drifting into my solitude,
over my head
Don’t you wonder sometimes
‘Bout sound and vision.
Now we can’t just paint over Mary Hopkin she was an amazing singer too.
Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti (from her marriage to Tony Visconti), is a Welsh folk singer, best known for her 1968 UK number one single “Those Were the Days“. She was one of the earliest signings to the Beatles‘ Apple label.
Here is a song by her Gold and Silver ( also colours) from her 2013 Album Painting my Numbers.
As you can see she has a lovely voice too.
Dyin’ for the moment
When you lie again beside me
Taste the salty tears
I thought would never end
Gold and silver
Run your river deep inside me
Gold and silver stream
That glistens in my hand
Give me, give to me
Your gold and silver
Give me, give to me
Your gold, your silver
Too long apart
Our love is growin’ stronger
Two hearts, two souls
Run into one
Too soon, too fast
Our love is spillin’ over
I want you now
So take me down
Give me, give to me
Your gold and silver
Give me, give to me
Your gold, your silver.
HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE ☺️.
The Escapist Coloring Club – February 2020 Nearly end of month reminder
23 Feb 2020 17 Comments
in colouring, Escapist's Colouring Club, humour, inspiration Tags: colours, Escapism, LindaGHill, relaxation
Hi it’s Sunday 23rd of February and so far I am just on target with my target for THE ESCAPIST COLOURING CLUB. Run by the one and only LINDAGHILL
So I look forward to seeing everyone else’s work 💜
willowdot21 