Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Food Fight - #FFFC #dVerse #Quadrille #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro


Hello, beautiful readers! Today, I am combining two challenges. The first one is Melissa's Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge, where she invites us to write a poem about the image below. The second challenge is dVerse's Quadrille #223 - Untangle It. In this challenge, we are to write a quadrille using some form of the word tangle. A quadrille is a poem of 44 words.

(image courtesy of David Griffiths on Unsplash)

Food Fight

morsels no longer wanted left behind
ear-splitting squawks pierce the peaceful scene
a flutter of gray and white creates shadows on target
entire family comes to feast
ravenous entanglement
newcomers encroach on taken territory
seagulls fight for each morsel
only the fittest will survive


Would you like to write a poem about either of these prompts? Click the links below:

Melissa's Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge


20 comments:

  1. Feeding frenzy in the air... what a spectacle

    ReplyDelete
  2. The photo you chose + plus the quadrille you composed = a great ekphrastic!!!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Replies
    1. Thank you, Carol! I appreciate you visiting. :-)

      Delete
  4. I can picture this, Yvette. Robbie

    ReplyDelete
  5. Oh.. even without the image, you painted this up so well. We have many of those squawkers in my town on the bay.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Mish! They are always at the beach, waiting for fools to feed them. Lol! I appreciate you stopping by.

      Delete
  6. hah! this exact scene unfolds every year when we visit the beach! :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I have the same experience every time, Ren! Thanks for stopping by. :-)

      Delete
  7. You captured that wild frenzy so well!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Great job with combining my prompt with the quadrille prompt! I love “a flutter of gray and white creates shadows on target”.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you, Melissa! I appreciate you visiting. :-)

      Delete
  9. I live on the coast and this is exactly how it is, so well evoked Yvette.

    ReplyDelete
  10. I've seen this happen and you describe it poetically perfectly. Great Q, Yvonne.

    ReplyDelete

I love comments, so please share your thoughts with me! :-)