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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Writers Island Flight


Writers Island: This week’s, and the thirtieth prompt is: “Flight”. How does “Flight” lift your imagination? Please share with us where this prompt carries you!

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They Call the Wind

Moans in the dark of night
beg my soul to join in flight
sing of journeys across the sky
of brushing the Bitterroot high
to ruffle soaring stalwart trees
wrinkling water of lakes and seas
dusting the desolate prairie
and moving the great Mojave
I am the wind, it whistles
and is gone...






Watercolor by Sue


19 comments:

Crafty Green Poet said...

beautiful watercolour and the words complement it very well

Geraldine said...

Very descriptive and evocative. Good use of the prompt.

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rel said...

Sue,
Beautiful; both poem and painting!
Like with all of nature, the wind can calm or terrorize. I like this reverie better. ;)

Noah the Great said...

OH wow, that last line is radical!

Constance Brewer said...

"Wrinkling water" brings up such great images. Nicely done! :)

Joyce Ellen Davis said...

I was born and grew up on the Mojave Desert, so I know the wind you speak of! Well done!

Anonymous said...

What beautiful pictures have been created ..both in the poem and the watercolor !

Specially loved
"wrinkling" water of lakes and seas
dusting the desolate prairie
and "moving the great Mojave"

What a sense of visual motion !!

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Anonymous said...

"dusting the desolate prairie"

that line really speaks to me

the whole poem has such great imagery ... wonderful

Anonymous said...

reminds me of Robert Frost poems, great rhythm here

Pirate Princess said...

Beautiful piece - I can close my eyes and feel it...

Anonymous said...

Such an emotive piece. Where does the wind go to?

Anonymous said...

Fabulous and the ending, so bittersweet....this moves so well, is so imagerich. And yes, the watercolour is beautiful.

Anonymous said...

I don't think I've read anything that rhymes by you before. I like it...and the watercolour.

Andy Sewina said...

Yeah, the wind! that's wonderful..

Anonymous said...

I could feel that wind brushing the palms of my hands. This was like a call to the very spirits themselves. WOW!

Jane Doe said...

Beautiful poems! I especially like the one about the wind, but they are all good.

anthonynorth said...

Beautifully done. Almost as powerful as the wind it describes.

L said...

very nice, it flowed much like the wind.

Anonymous said...

visual motion !!-the wind-not an easy act to capture-it's likeable!