Ibadan
(A city in South-Western Nigeria)
Nigeria
Greetings to all!
Today is the day we put the "mini' back into the Sunday Mini-Challenge, and return to the option of form poetry. The object of this challenge is to write a poem in no more than 10 lines (but you may write in fewer than 10 lines all the way down to a single American sentence). Choose your own form or write in free verse, if preferred.This weekend, our frame of reference is 'A splash of rust and gold...' quoted from John Pepper Clark's poem, Ibadan. Follow THIS LINK to AllPoetry.com where more of his work is available to read. I look forward to reading a number of short poems, from Saturday through to Monday. The link does not expire, so please feel free to write more than one poem, and a return to comment on poems linked later would be appreciated.
Beautiful poem and visual presentation. K.
ReplyDeleteI love to write in ten lines, and dive into some forms... love the splash of rust and gold...
ReplyDeleteThank you for introducing me to John Pepper Clark!
ReplyDeleteTo use the frame iof reference, I have tried to write colourfully and descriptively about my own home town. The 10-line form is a dizain, 10 lines of 10 syllables each, rhymed ababbccdcd.
What a beautifully presented and gorgeous quotation from John Pepper Clark. Thank you for introducing me to his poetry, Kerry.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad everyone has enjoyed this short poem by JP Clark. Thanks for the info on the dizain, Rosemary - perfect for this challenge.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful prompt.
ReplyDeletethe colours and the brevity were irresistible p.s. Rosemary's dizain is one to think of for the future
ReplyDeleteI am as enraptured by the poems for this prompt as I was by the prompt itself. Such beauty! It seems this one inspired us all to excel ourselves.
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