Here is another installment of Linda’s paint-chip poetry. I tried to also write in quatrains with an “abab” rhyme scheme. This is also shared with DVerse OLN. Our prompt words are below.
“April showers bring May flowers,”
So goes a well-known adage.
A heartbeat blooms and overpowers
Sky-waterfalls; hope makes a hedge.
Pumpkins planted in the spring
Are simply seeds, but by October,
They’re ripe for jack-o-lantern carving,
So parts of April are not over.
One April morning we are all fools,
Many pranks people like to test:
Teaching that when time seems cruel,
To keep new hope in a cedar chest.
This is beautiful. I love how you worked in the jack-o’-lantern. That was a tough one with this theme.
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Very innovative. Loved these lines:
“A heartbeat blooms and overpowers
Sky-waterfalls; hope makes a hedge.”
So poetically profound. Beautifully composed with the images you evoke.
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I have hope so this part rings true for me:
Teaching that when time seems cruel,
To keep new hope in a cedar chest.
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I especially like that last line. (K)
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This is beautifully profound, Jenna 💝
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I like that the pumpkin seeds planted in the poem send a little of April into October. We have to plant the seeds of hope for our future now more than ever. Good read!
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Your last line is a nice play on a hope chest, and perfect overall, considering the hope that runs through your poem.
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Very well crafted and the hope reverberates through the rhymes.
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And if we don’t plant anything there will nothing to harvest.
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