Dreamingly Yours

( Written for W3 Prompt #81: Wea’ve Written Weekly )

 

Who says dreams do not really come true,

Few have the desire & courage to run for them,

True desire will lead and efforts will accrue,

Through highs and the lows, as and when.

 

So, pursue your dreams close to your heart,

Know the universe helps and takes your side,   

Go for them even if present time is to thwart,

Slow and steady wins, and future in your stride.

W3 Prompt #81: Wea’ve Written Weekly

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Good afternoon and till later…

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Guidelines-

W3 Prompt #81: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Intro

Dear friends,

Welcome to our W³ Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.

You may click here for a fuller explanation of W³; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:

Part I

The main ingredient of W³ is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants read before participating in the prompt.

Part II

The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.

Part III

After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W³ prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.

Simple enough, right?

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Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!

I. The prompt poem:

‘Until Spring’, a tanka series by Jennifer Russo

Indian summer
Conquered by winter’s resolve
I sit quietly
Wrapped in a woolen blanket
While waves crash upon the shore

I rise from my perch
A final walk on the beach
Left behind till spring
Lone cold feet imprint the sand
Gulls cry lamentful goodbyes 

I pass through sand dunes
Past sparkling freshwater ponds
Wild geese preen feathers
Indifferent to the chill
While I shiver in protest

II. Jennifer’s prompt guidelines

As days grow shorter in the northern hemisphere, I find myself going to bed a bit earlier and rising a bit later. More time for dreaming! This week’s prompt is to write a “lento” on the topic of dreams. This could be about dreams themselves, the act of dreaming, the dreamer or a dreamlike quality.

Poems to inspire you

• ‘My Little Dreams’ by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880 – 1966)
• ‘Dreams’ by Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967)

Lento?

• Two quatrains (four-line stanzas) with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe, as the 2^nd and 4^th lines of each stanza must rhyme;
• All the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme; click HERE for an example.

III. Submit: Click on ‘Mister Linky’ below

In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.

Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, November 20, 10:00 AM (GMT+2)