FREE VERSE FRIDAY #11 November A Splash of Colour

I've joined Beverly A Baird, Linda Schueler and others in a "year long poetry practice – on the first Friday of each Month," when they, and anyone else who joins, will be writing a poem based on the theme of the month and a photo taken relating to that theme.

You can find out more about this here.

I usually write a poem and send it off to my two favourite photographers to come up with an image to accompany it. Last month as the posting date drew near, I hadn't written a thing, I begged them for inspiration. Each of them sent me an image so I ended up writing two poems!

I was thinking of poppies with this theme, but neither of them were on the same page as I was. When I told my husband, Randy Rotheisler, the theme was 'a splash of colour' he told me he knew what he was sending me and it didn't matter what I wrote. I complained to Ron, and he also sent me a photo. Both images are of course, just bloody stunning!
I tried to write a poem that connects their two images, but gave up and ended up with two. I think they are sort of connected. Both are really about transformation and endings. 

image by Ron Peace

last rites

autumn's

thaumaturgy

conjures

variegated 

iridescence

out of once

verdant 

landscape

a final benediction 

before the grim grey of winter

image by Randy Rotheisler

in the evening,

spirals 

of red 

luminesce,

snake 

across 

the dark

disappearing 

into 

    the maw

of winter

In case you are interested, the above photographs can be purchased from the photographers. Let me know if you want their contact information.

FREE VERSE FRIDAY #9 SEPTEMBER: AUTUMN

I'm joining Beverly A Baird, Linda Schueler and others in a "year long poetry practice – on the first Friday of each Month," when they, and anyone else who joins, will be writing a poem based on the theme of the month and a photo taken relating to that theme.

You can find out more about this here.

I forgot about writing this til September 30th, so I begged my photographers Randy Rotheisler, and Ron Peace, to send me inspiration. They told me it didn't work like that. I scribbled off a draft and sent it to them. 

by Randy Rotheisler

Autumn

if Spring is the midwife,
and Summer, an indulgent mother,

then Autumn,
Autumn is the death doula,

ushering Earth's weary players

to the ends of their season

across cinematic pigments of glory

and into Winter's waiting embrace

by Ron Peace

here's one from me

The first time I participated, I didn't get the photograph first bit. I let the theme percolate throughout the month before posting and the poem more or less wrote itself. When I realized my mistake, I sent a half decent draft of it to my partner, Randy Rotheisler, and a friend, Ron Peace, both gifted photographers, asking for images to accompany it. We have continued this process.

In case you are interested, both these photographs can be purchased from the photographers. Let me know if you want their contact information.