The Sunday Challenge ~ Featuring Susie Clevenger

We all know her as the Laundry Goddess, but Susie has another talent, which she has kindly agreed to share with us today.   Her photography blog is aptly named And There Is More.  If you have never visited this site, you are in for a feast of beautiful images.

Portrait of the Artist

I am much like the butterfly I love. Going through a metamorphosis in my life. Letting imagination guide me.

© Susie Clevenger: Mike Zito

Guitar Man
                by Susie Clevenger


Guitar man play your blue chords for me.
I want to hear the story the road has put in your soul,
smoky bar melodies belted out in gravel.


Calloused fingertips glide as smooth as silk along guitar strings
making them speak a language that calls for feet to move
and bodies to sway in joined adulation of the rhythm.


Eyes close as body and soul merge with the music
playing chords fine tuned with life lived in highway stripes,
a midnight musician performing to the accompaniment of clinking glass.


Places you’ve been, people you’ve met, show up in your songs,
penned verses first written in roadside diners on napkin lyric sheets
a collection of tunes born from a heart in love with the blues.


Too soon it is time to pack up your guitar and head for the next city.
Goodbye guitar man, I will be here waiting to say hello once again
and to listen to the blues as only you can play it.

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Susie has selected these photos for our poetic inspiration, each one is copyrighted to her, so please remember to acknowledge the name of the artist on your blog if you display one there.  You may not select another image from Susie's photography blog, without her express permission.

Cemetery

Pictures are stories waiting for words. I find much of my poetry is inspired by images. Each one has a voice and I take up my pen to translate it into verse.

Kearney Depot

Photography is a passion for me. There is so much in life to capture with a camera lens. It has made me much more observant of the world around me. 

Lizard

Nature is one of my favorite things to photograph, but lately I have become fascinated with architecture.

Lighthouse at Punto Sur

I am hearing poetry when awake

Dreaming poetry when asleep

Breathing poetry with each breath

I am living in a poem

Baytown Bridge

The Sunday Challenge is posted on Saturday at noon CST to allow extra time for the creative process, so please do not link up old work which kind of fits the image. Members will only respond to poetry written specifically for this prompt: this is in the spirit of our Real Toads project to create opportunities for poets to be newly inspired.  Management reserves the right to remove unrelated links.