Roberta Writes – dVerse poetry challenge and W3 Prompt #98 #poetry

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This painting “Window in the Studio” by van Gogh inspired this butterfly cinquain for dVerse. You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2024/03/14/open-link-night-and-a-chance-to-go-live-on-saturday/

Light delight

The light

So enticing

Drawing me – like a moth

Into its encircling embrace

The light

My eyes tinted pink, I attempt

To capture it with paint

Artist’s

Delight

W3 Prompt #98

You can join in here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/03/13/w3-prompt-98-weave-written-weekly/

Nigel’s prompt guidelines

Samson and Delilah (Rubens)
  • Write an ekphrastic poem inspired by Peter Paul Rubens’ (1577–1640) painting of Samson and Delilah (above).
    • Feeling ambitious? Try this additional challenge: include this line from Samson’s wedding riddle:
    • Out of the strong came something sweet

This poem is one of my few attempts at mild humour:

Keep it

I am strong

Have my own career

My husband

Is my friend

But I am independent

He can keep his hair

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  20. Those are delightful and fun poems. “He can keep his hair” I was just curious if that has a special meaning I am missing. Our younger son allowed his hair to grow really long, like a rockstar, to assert is individuality, well until we forced him to cut it.

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    1. Hi Thomas, “He can keep his hair” comes from the story of Samson and Delilah. Samson has great strength which is due to his long hair. Delilah wheedles this secret out of Samson and betrays him, cutting off his hair so that he loses his strength. My younger son is growing his hair long now. Lots of kids do that.

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  21. Haha, I love both poems, Robbie. I’m glad your husband kept his hair as long as he could. 🤩 Robbie, do you use Jetpack or WordPress on your phone. Jetpack now doesn’t support inserting emoji anymore. It’s a bummer. I may uninstall it.

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  22. I enjoyed both your ekphrastic poems, Robbie. The second one made me chuckle.

    Do you know the singer-songwriter, Regina Spektor and her song, Samson? My daughter used to play it a lot when she was in high school (and learned it on the piano)–her boyfriend had the time had long hair. 🙂

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    1. Haha, Dan, it’s funny that so many men lose their hair. It must be genetic. Poor Michael’s hair was thinning a bit on top, but he is using a special hairspray provided by the dermatologist and new hair is growing. He isn’t ready to lose his hair.

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  31. Great poems, Robbie. I love the pink tainted eyes rather than rose colored glasses. The drawing does have a bit of a rosy hue. My husband is now bald on top with longish scraggles on the bottom. I did a Delilah move on him early in our marriage. He let me know that he was still strong enough to not let it happen again. So I photoshopped him with shorter hair. I only did that once, too, LOL! Luckily there were no Philistines after him. 🙂

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