Source: The Keeper – Visual Verse
Image for October’s issue of Visual Verse is by Werner Stuerenburg.
An eagerly awaited challenge is this monthly exercise. The poem this time is titled ‘Metamorphosis‘
Source: Metamorphosis – Visual Verse
Thank you Visual Verse! Some excellent writing here. Enjoyed Sheikha A’s SOS poem a lot.
Visual Verse is an anthology of art, poetry, short fiction and non-fiction.
They supply an image every month and invite writers – published or unpublished – to submit a piece in response. My poem for May is titled ‘Watermelons’ -a fruit for this hot season.
Source: Watermelons – Visual Verse
Visual verse is a fun place to write at. Read Sheikha A.’s poem and many other startling poems and prose pieces here along with one of mine.
Source: You are not the only dog here – Visual Verse
Source: Don’t do it – Visual Verse
Written for this visual prompt at Visual Verse.
* ERROR (last line)- into an unpleasant memory
Based on a painting by Nadira ( Dreaming Through The Twilight)
©Reena Prasad
For your inspirational painting Nadira Cotticollan Thank you!
Watch me as I rise
drinking up the black liquid of night
The wind in my golden stalks
He lies on the lapping surface
to carry me away
from all that is dark
The bamboo in my basket of love
is covered with its swan flowers
The sunlight, my last sheath
I see his handsome heart
and the big stakes driven into them
but I am not a frail concept, I am Earth
out to reclaim my colours
from the paint and word palettes
of plagiarist beings called artists
©Reena Prasad 26th May 2013
Abundant gold
thrown into the sea
sparkling in the crests of little waves-to-be
dazzling inside the curves of frothy swirls
A Midas has drowned
his regrets mirrored by the sky
A lone ship leaves amidst the scattered largesse
to search for its predestined fortune
it makes me want to weep.
©Reena Prasad 26th Jan 2013