After NCTE, my Inkling friend Mary Lee also stayed in Denver as a tourist. She sent me some of her photos of murals. I chose this one today to pair with Georgia Heard’s prompt “Write about a sound in nature that calms you.”
In my Wordle attempts this morning, I used the word “flame.” The line of hot pink at the bottom of this mural reminds me of the burning of cane fields that happens this time of year.
When you write today, can you find a word to use in a new way, playing with metaphor?
Morning wakes
with the call of barred owls
hooting up
a flame of grass fire
filling this day
with sweet light.
Reflections on the Teche 
Great mural and a fun writing prompt for the day! We had about 5 inches of snow yesterday on top of 4 inches that came earlier – so I am thinking about the quiet that comes when snow blankets our city. Will see what I can do with that later today.
Love how you weaved in “the flame of grass fire.” Your poem inspired me to write about a bird, too, Margaret. Not much of a metaphor, but this is what I came up with.
Mourning dove coos hello
coloring my melancholy heart
butterfly blue
Thanks for writing. I can hear the coo of the mourning dove. Love the alliteration of butterfly blue.
What Margaret said, but also the rhyme of coo and blue…perfect for a mourning dove!
I missed this yesterday…thanks for featuring one of my photos!
glancing up from screen’s glow
fuchsia fire of sunrise
startles me awake
I like how you got that color, fuchsia, into the poem.
“fuchsia fire of sunrise” – beautiful!