Paint Chip Poetry Prompt #16
It’s week 16 of Paint Chip Poetry! It’s hard to believe how time flies, even when you’re stuck at home because of a pandemic.
So this week’s topic is pilgrimage. Oh what cruel fate, since many people can’t literally go on a pilgrimage anywhere right now. Perhaps it will have to be a pilgrimage in the mind, or a reflection on a pilgrimage of the past, or hopefulness for a future pilgrimage when the world gets back to normal.
The Challenge
The paint chip words and phrases for this week are wishing well, dewdrop, Niagara Falls, foggy harbor, antique rose, aura, and Grand Canyon. Your challenge this week is to use at least five of these words in your poem, including either Niagara Falls or Grand Canyon. Extra points if you use them all. Double extra points if you can make me want to go on the pilgrimage you describe.
My Poem
Pilgrimage of the Newlyweds
She imagined the alluring aura
like a crown of joy upon her head
her laughing smile to complement
the antique rose honeymoon frock
She was thinking of the wishing well
where two bits and a yearning for love
had brought her this handsome beau
with imposing height and equal grin
A traveling twosome undaunted
they were by a foggy harbor to traverse
on their blissfully harmonious trip
to monumental Niagara Falls
Standing at a north rim railing
of the gargantuan Grand Canyon
pondering a dewdrop on cactus
the early morn brought new joy
Your Turn
Now it’s your turn. Post your poem in the comments, or post it on your own blog and include a link in the comments. I can’t wait to journey through your offerings.
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Your words are my inspiration:
https://myforever.blog/2020/04/21/his-masterpiece/
Pilgrimage of Love and Life
Our pilgrimage began years ago in our own neighborhood
Little did we know that our next stop would be Hollywood
It took forty-five years for these events to join together
The wishing well at our wedding sealed our fate forever
Weather interfered with many an ocean front adventure
The aura of the mountains tends toward what we prefer
A morning dewdrop on a flower in the hills of Tuscany
Can be more inspiring than the craftsmanship of many
The coastal towns of the Cinque Terre were visited in the rain
We’d love to view their hues of yellow, blue, and antique rose again
Driving up from Pula an accordion festival took us by surprise
Then ascending to a mountaintop in Lienz really opened our eyes
Ancient henges and clear streams we’ve seen on our way
Steep cliffs, fairy gardens, and rope bridges that sway
Giant’s causeway, crumbling castles, and a quiet dinner for two
It’s all part of our journey, discovering and awakening anew
Our long bucket list contains Spain, Niagara Falls, and the Grand Canyon
While New York at Christmas and a foggy harbor in Maine both have been stricken
Although it might appear we’ve taken many wonderful but separate trips
It’s really a single pilgrimage of love and life ingrained in our relationship
Nice. Another one for Patti. 🙂
Yes, she liked it. I also believe this is the 10th or 12th week in a row that I have used all seven paint chips.
That’s great. It can be a challenge to get all the words in sometimes.
I hope you enjoy my poetic wandering!
https://revivedwriter.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/pilgrimage/
I always do!
I think I used them all!
Places of pilgrimage
In Derbyshire well-dressing
Has nothing to do with dressing well.
Arrangements of spring flowers are
Not like an antique rose on a wishing well.
It is far from the foggy harbour
Where the lights have an aura –
Red and green for port and starboard –
Colours echoed in much flora.
The spray of roaring waters
Of Niagara Falls on a border
Splits the light (as a dewdrop might)
Into rainbow colours in their order.
Tourists like to visit
Well-publicised landlocked inland
Places like the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon
Or the colder climes of Norway and Finland.
Yes you did use them all! I especially like how you used dewdrop. And you took us all around the world.
https://mehflowers.wordpress.com/2020/04/17/no-perfect-place/ Had to go this way for sanity.
Great prompt this week! Just to let you know, even when I do not post my responses, your prompts inspire me weekly. 🙂
Yay! That makes me happy.