Summer is hot, no matter where you live, and the best way to beat the heat is to play in the water. This photo is sure to cool you off. It’s from Lisa Davis’s Instagram feed. Lisa was the site director for the National Writing Project at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA. (pronounced Nak-a-dish) She is currently retired (I think) and enjoying being a grandmother. I couldn’t resist her post of her granddaughter dancing in the sprinkler.
Is it possible
Margaret Simon, draft
to fall in love with a day?
Joy
catches me in its spray!
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Margaret, sweet poem. I guess i was inspired by the lovely photo by Lisa, but also your great “Joy / catches me in its spray”
An invitation to
Splashing joy
Limboing laughter
Summer is here
Love “limboing laughter”!
“Limboing laughter” – what a great line!
Limboing laughter is great! I used to love to limbo. Thank you, it brings back many happy memories.
Quintessential summer! Love the joy in this photo. And, yes! It’s possible to fall in love with a day. I have fallen in love with many days. Wonderful energy in your short poem.
I drink the sky
all morning
all night
sun bubble
blue lake
green sprinkle
my favorite flavors
straight from a cloud
or, chilled by ice
What a great metaphor for this photo! “My favorite flavors straight from a cloud.”
I can taste summer in your poem!
What a nice slice of summer in your quenching poem, thanks Linda!
Linda, your poem is great and refreshing; especially love images, voice, and “my favorite flavors straight from a cloud.”
“I drink the sky” and her joy is so evident in the photo and your poem. Beautiful.
Love this photo and your short, burst-of-joy poem, Margaret. Denise, yes, limbo! Linda, your list of flavors and that idea of summer’s soda fountain is perfect. My son has been boxing and sparring a lot recently–we have to watch a lot of “watch this clean shot!” videos…
Water,
you split your fist into a long arm of spray
hit me with an uppercut to the chin
you knock me out cold!
Wow! What a great metaphor for a boxer.
Oh, wow! I can see it….but so not like what I expected. Love this, Heidi.
Love this new perspective with surprise ending!
Powerful metaphorical spray, and your last line knocks “me out” too, thanks Heidi!
Heidi, great comparison and ambush ending.
“Knock me out cold” is just too fun!
There is much joy in your poem, Margaret. And yes, falling in love with a day is certainly possible. I don’t know if I fall in love with every day, but I do try to find a memorable moment in each day. I look forward to Wednesdays and your photos.
Catching every cool drop,
her body is a question mark
in a shower of delight.
What’s next?
“her body is a question mark” is brilliant.
Question mark, of course. That’s what childhood is about.
Oh Rose, this is a beautiful metaphor with personification. I love your poem, especially “her body is a question mark in a shower of delight.”
What’s next, indeed? Summer’s delights and her body asks the question. Nice poem.
Love your spray-filled poem Margaret , and the image is wonderful, thanks!
Follow my arch
flowing from nature
creating effervescent
summer spray.
Love the word effervescent!
Sweet! Love effervescent
Michele, great voice. I especially love how her “arch flows from nature” and “effervescent” is the perfect word.
Lovely!
I love the power in this poem. Her arch flows from nature and is creating the spray. Yikes! So lovely!
Margaret, yes, it is possible to fall in love with a day especially in the summer. Your question immediately hooks the reader. I love your answer and the rhyme.
Here’s my Tanka draft:
Gymnast in the Sun
sprinkler droplets sparkle like
gems off my backbend
coolness spreads enchanting me
into an aqua mermaid
Gail Aldous
I have to run to OT. I will comment later on everyone’s poems. Thank you for sharing this summer fun photo prompt and inspiration.
“enchanting” is a great word for this photo.
Thank you, Margaret. I forgot to mention before what I great photo you chose!
Gail, I love the image of the “aqua mermaid” and her being enchanted into one. Sweet!
Thank you, Denise.
a year of distress
disperses in a joyful
cascade of bubbles
Love the joy in this photo… and in everyone’s poems!
You captured that need for release, Buffy. Thanks!
Buffy, I love your word choices. The second two lines are perfect choices to follow the first. I especially love “joyful cascade of bubbles.” Than you for sharing joy.
Love how you captured distress turning to joy.
Ah, a “cascade of bubbles” IS joyful. I love that. Our poems are so joy-filled today with that lovely image, aren’t they?