Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Life's Reset - #dVerse #Quadrille #moonwashedprompt #whatdoyousee #WDYS #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem @YvetteMCalleiro



Hello, beautiful readers! I'm blending poetry challenges again. The first challenge comes from Moonwashed Musings, where Eugi inspires us to use a word or phrase from the following:

simplicity

in an uneasy world

praise unforgotten calm

The second challenge comes from De Jackson over at dVerse. The challenge is called Quadrille #215: Ready for Liftoff, and we are asked to write a quadrille with a variation of the word lift in our poem. A quadrille is a poem with 44 words and is focused on a word. 

The final prompt comes from Sadje's What Do You See? prompt. She provided the image below and challenged us to write a poem about it. 

As time is always limited for me, I found a way to blend the three together into one poem. 


(Image Credit: Pavlo T @ Unsplash)


Life's Reset


oftentimes, I seek solace

a place of reflection

always in nature

where life continues just because

away from manmade contraptions

I ground myself

giving Mother Earth what no longer serves me

finding my simplicity in an uneasy world

lifting my spirits to begin anew


Would you like to write to one of these prompts? Click the links below.

Moonwashed Musings

Quadrille #215: Ready for Liftoff

What Do You See?

15 comments:

  1. Oh this is so beautifully and elegantly done Yvette. I love the simplicity of this poem. Thanks for joining in. Sadje

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  2. Well done with the prompt mashup! I feel like this is a good mantra for life: "finding my simplicity in an uneasy world"

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    1. I agree! That is one of the lines that Eugi gave us, and I fell in love with it. Thanks for visiting! :-)

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  3. Yvi, well done on getting all the prompts to work together! I love this line: "finding my simplicity in an uneasy world..." this is so perfect for our current affairs.

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    1. Thank you, Colleen! Eugi chose well when she picked that phrase. It's beautiful and very fitting for today! Thanks for stopping by. :-)

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  4. Yvette, this is stunning and perfect for our world of today. Beautiful blending of prompts. Eugi

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    1. Thank you, Eugi! Your challenge inspired me. I appreciate you stopping by. :-)

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  5. Yvette, This is lovely. Change comes harder to older folks... I'm not that old, perhaps, but old enough to not like change. It appears WP reenstated what they took away. But I think I'll still keep my options available.

    I'm still a bit perplexed on how the 'dashboard' works at Blogger... but, well, maybe I'll figure it out. I do like things simple. Even when I complicate things myself ;)

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    1. I'm still learning how to embrace change, Jules! I can be quite stubborn sometimes. ;-) Are you creating a Blogger account?

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    2. I already had one... that wasn't used for a long time, but it is back up now. I may post their once a week...
      https://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/

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  6. Wonderfully done Yvette - great quadrille that is perfect for all prompts 💞

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  7. That's quite a challenge, Yvette, and you rose to meet it with ease. Your poem is beautiful.

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    1. Thank you for your kind words, Diana! I'm happy you enjoyed it. :-)

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