dVerse Blue Tuesday Prompt
Meet the Bar Waltzing
souls seeking blue moments in tomorrows hearts racing amok whole lessons forfeiting circumventing life's hard blows that seem to come out of the blue dodged reality lacking graces running against the current of now dying to moments of full grace when circumventing harsh blows forfeiting whole lessons hearts run in a whirl in far future blue moments missing now hearts seeking blue moments in once fond past souls reeling, yearning regrets painted aslant veiled from discerning third eyes obstructing from enlightenment living for the future or the past * * How wrong to invent excuses blue moments in the present lie strive not to weigh on prominence of pleasure, displeasure contained Get subsumed, merge with the moment not in days past nor in future take your place in the brief present court blue moments as they arise They happen when least expected in moments of love or terror perceived only in memory to reside gently on the mind Then like pearls come down from heaven the moments gift you a recall seize each ephemeral moment Court the blue moment, Surrender *** © 2021 selmamartin.com
dVerse~ The Poets Pub, ran by SarahSouthWest, ignited my fire and inspired me to write this post. The prompt is from a week ago, Tuesday, and I wish to participate if I’m not too late.
UPDATE: I was late to that party but was advised to seek out the Thursday Group– that’s today. I went there but found the gang with dancing shoes on. All of them. Oh my. Meet the Bar Waltzing, they said.
Now, I could change the bottom of the poem to something that says
let the music guide your feet,
surrender to the music,
let the waltz of life envelope you,
be one with it,
and still keep the blue theme, but that would cause me delays as I need to be somewhere else now. (I have no time to count syllables *wink*)
So, I will link to the Bar and wait and see if anyone notices me. Thanks, everyone. (I’m doing this for the poem that longs to be read).
My offering stands as is:
- Starting with an inverted Nonet– stanzaic poetry written in 9-line stanzas with a syllable count as 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 per line– find the hourglass shape of a string of Nonets then a double Trochaic octameter– a rarely used poetic meter with eight syllables (feet) per line. Each foot has one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
- Thanks, Sarah, and Kim for this. I loved the prompt as it awoke the good feels I had during the entire month of my first taste of the NaPoWriMo 2021 prompts. Wasn’t that the best? Methinkso. Thanks for bringing that back to me today. I’ll check back and hope to participate as often as I can. xoxo.
Photo: Image by Khusen Rustamov from Pixabay
THANKS FOR READING
I Wish You Miracles.
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Just loved this line a little too much
‘How wrong to invent excuses
blue moments in the present lie’
You do, dear one? You see with your third eye, I know!
Thanks for gifting me your time today. I appreciate you.
All well again? I surely hope so. Stay well in grace and good health. I wish you blue moments and miracles. xoxo.
Good morning from Ohio! I enjoyed this and the timing is coincidental, I just wrote an article about the color blue this morning as part of my history of colors stored that I’ve just begun. Very nice piece❤
Hi, Markie. How cool is that? Those coincidences are precious. I love it when things work out that way. If your article is on your blog I’ll get to it as soon as I send this off to you.
Or where else can I read it? Lead me to it.
Thanks for stopping here. Hope your day is spectacular. My day today was muggy— rained and fogged the windows. But every day is precious and as in the poem it was loaded with blue moments.
Have a meritorious day. Good night from me in Japan. I wish you miracles.
I love the idea of ‘courting’ those ‘blue moments’ – I believe they can teach us a lot!
Hey, Ingrid. Yes, courting them; waltzing with them, like letting yourself be merged with the music in that moment. Like so. I like the idea too.
Thanks for reading and commenting. I wish you miracles
Thank you 🙏
A lovely delicate whirlwind of a poem, Selma 🙂 I love these lines: dying to moments of full grace / regrets painted aslant / court the blue moment <3
I don’t mind your tardiness, cause I really enjoyed your poem!
I like the shape of your poem. It seems to fit with your words. Also, I think you did a completely different interpretation of the blue prompt than I’ve seen with these “blue” poems so far.
Hi, Susan. Thanks for visiting.
Completely different interpretation — that’s me. 😞 😆 Still, I hope you return to read again.
Be well. I wish you miracles.
It’s good to be original. 🙂
Crescendo/decrescendo! Lovely
Your encouragement: thanks so much.
Be well. I wish you miracles.
I do love this, even if it didn’t directly fit the prompt for Thursday waltz, the blue moments are fitting, and I can really feel a moody dance inside.
I would treasure those blue moments. Thanks for joining in.
We should. They teach the lessons we need to learn. Thanks so much for reading and commenting, Grace. (I love your name)
Be well. I wish you miracles