Hello, beautiful readers! Today, I am combining two prompts. The first comes from Creative Perspective Challenge, where Denise provides us with the photo below and encourages us to allow it to inspire us. The second prompt is from dVerse's Quadrille #224 - Walk Quietly in my Dreams. In this challenge, we are encouraged to use quiet or a word associated with it in our quadrille. I've bolded and italicized the words I've used. A quadrille is a poem with exactly 44 words. I decided to write a haibun that also qualifies as a quadrille.
(image credit; moonlight by vernonwiley from Getty Images Signature)
Yesteryears
In the soft stillness of a peaceful lavender sky, I gaze across the serene lake and reminisce of a life of parties and adventures, each experience molding me into the person I've become.
life's great memories
summer's glory days wind down
quieter days come
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This is very nostalgic ❤️🩹 Robbie
ReplyDeleteThank you, Robbie! I appreciate you visiting. :-)
DeleteYour beautiful haibun brings back memories of visiting my grandparents at the lake and made me smile. So happy you participated, Yvette, thank you. Xo
ReplyDeleteThank you, Denise! I'm happy I brought back great memories. Thanks for sharing! :-)
DeleteA delightful quiet haibun-quadrille, Yvette. I especially love the ‘lavender sky’, and the wistfulness of the haiku.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kim! I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteI love your response to the prompt, Yvette. You have really progressed by leaps and bounds with your poetry. You rise to meet each challenge!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jan! I appreciate your kind words. :-)
Deletei love this yvette! i always forget about the haibun form, but you've done it beautifully here <3
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ren! I fell in love with syllabic poetry through Tanka Tuesday, so I try to fit the quadrille into a form, and the haibun seems to work well with it. I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteThe memories is something to thrive on and enjoy in silence
ReplyDeleteI agree, Bjorn! Thanks for stopping by. :-)
DeleteSuch a peaceful poem--those quiet moments when the memories come.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Merril! I appreciate you visiting. :-)
DeleteLovely, sky and poem
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Much♡love
Thank you, Gillena! I appreciate your visit as well. :-)
DeleteWater calms, especially calm waters. Also good for play although not here. You did wonderfully combining the two sets of prompts.
ReplyDeletep.s. Thank you for your nice comment. I love to bring out memories.
DeleteThank you, Jim! Water always seems to calm me, which is why I love going to the beach so much. I appreciate you visiting! :-)
DeleteI love the "lavender sky," Yvi. This is a lovely haibun! 💜
ReplyDeleteThank you, Colleen! I'm happy you enjoyed it. I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
DeleteThanks for letting me know about Creative Perspectives, I'll check it out.
ReplyDeleteI love the contrast of the prose and the haibun. Lovely writing!
Thank you, Nolcha! I look forward to reading what you write for CP. Thanks for visiting! :-)
DeleteYvette, your “quieter days come” lingers with me—so gently wistful. I feel the hush of nostalgia in your lake-gazing haibun.
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David
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I'm happy you connected with that line. Thanks for sharing, David! :-)
DeleteThis is gorgeous, Yvette, full of quiet yearning .
ReplyDeleteThank you, Punam! I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteBeautiful, Yvette. It's filled with serenity. It relaxed me just reading it.
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Thank you for sharing that, Sandra! I appreciate you visiting. :-)
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