Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Morning's Masterpiece - #dVerse #Quadrille #W3 #TankaTuesday #shadorma #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro




Hello, beautiful readers! I had a wonderful birthday celebration this past weekend with various groups of friends. Thursday night was spent with family as we enjoyed dinner at one of my favorite restaurants. My work friends and I went to a Bingo Loco event on Friday night and had a blast! Saturday was spent at the beach with my sister. Afterward, we had dinner and then treated ourselves to reflexology massages. And Sunday was spent with another group of friends at Escapology and then lunch. I enjoyed every moment of it and am grateful for all the love shared with me this weekend.

Today, I'm combining three prompts. The first is dVerse's Quadrille #243 where De Jackson invites us to write a quadrille using the word bird. A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words. 

The second challenge comes from Wea've Written Weekly (W3). Nancy invites us to write a shadorma poem with a theme of sensory details. A shadorma has a syllabication pattern of 3/5/3/3/7/5.

The last prompt is #TankaTuesday's Poetry Challenge. Colleen asks us to write an Ekphrastic poem, which is a poem inspired by a piece of art. She provided the beautiful image below as her example, and I loved the piece, so I decided to write a poem for it as well. 

(Facebook Pages: Watercolour Unique Arts: 7/1/2025)

sun rises
awakening sky
golden hues
repel dark
Gaia basks in her glory
sweet transformation

songbirds sing
harmonic voices
ricochet
off mountains
melodies among the trees
public serenade

dewy grass
wears lake's mist with pride
resplendent
crystal crowns
dissipate with rising sun
morning's masterpiece

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



31 comments:

  1. These are all lovely, Yvette.

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  2. Gentle, beautiful words...extraordinary, Yvette. ❤️

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  3. Very beautiful poem, Yvette. Painting is also beautiful.

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    1. Thank you! Colleen picked a great watercolor painting! :-)

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  4. What a beautiful morning picture you paint here. Well done.


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  5. So well done and what a feat, to do well by three different prompts.

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    1. Thank you, Deanna! I appreciate you stopping by! :-)

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  6. This is a lovely capture of a beautiful morning. I love it.

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  7. Ironically I almost wrote about the bird song I woke up to this morning!

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    1. I love hearing the birds sing in the morning. Thanks for stopping by, Christine! :-)

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  8. What a beautiful combination they make!

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  9. I enjoyed the beauty and the sense of peace.

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  10. Lovely, Yvette. A belated happy birthday to you. It sounds like a wonderful weekend!

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    1. Thank you, Merril! I appreciate the birthday wishes. It truly was a wonderful weekend. :-)

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  11. A very happy belated birthday Yvette 🎉 you paint such a beautiful picture with your words 💕💕💕

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    1. Thank you, Ange! I appreciate your kind words. :-)

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  12. Those melodies amongst trees are the best in the world. Such an uplifting poem.

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  13. Lovely Shadormas Yvette and very clever to weave for all 3 prompts 💞

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  14. a virtual cornucopia of sensory delights!

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  15. I really like the imagery of the songbirds singing ricocheting off the mountains. Splendid.

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  16. You captured the image with your words, beautifully :)

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