This week’s W3 prompt is as follows:
Val’s (Murisopsis’) prompt guidelines
This April, for National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Murisopsis is running an “Around the World” poetry forms scavenger hunt (you should join us there!), and, as such, she is using one of these international forms for our W3 prompt this week!
- Form:Cameo;
- Heptastich (a poem in 7 lines);
- Syllabic: 2-5-8-3-8-7-2 syllables per line;
- Unrhymed, but end words should be strong.
- Theme: Love
You can join in here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/04/03/w3-prompt-101-weave-written-weekly/
My Love
Untamed
Gold and orange veld
Rolling in autumn coloured waves
Symbolic
Of Africa’s savage spirit
Therein lies its beating heart
My love
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Lovely 🥰
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Thank you, Diana
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You’re welcome 🙂
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All beautiful.
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Thank you, Timothy. I was looking at your post this morning and thinking how similar the grass and terrain is in many ways.
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What a beautiful poem! I can feel your love and passion for Africa…
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You can feel your love with every word you write!
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Thank you, Annette
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Beautiful, Robbie. I can feel your love for this land.
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Thank you, Merril
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You’re welcome, Robbie!
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Fantastic pictures and beautiful poetry. I can understand your love. ❤️
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Hi Tim, I am glad you can relate to this poem
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I love your ode to the land you call home. The photos are the perfect accompaniment.
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Hi Liz, thank you. This is the good, our corrupt government is the bad but we have an election coming and I live in hope.
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Your country seems to be in the same situation as mine with the hope of voting out a corrupt government this year.
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I think you have more chance of success than we do. There is a lot of tribalism in South Africa and the tribal leaders dictate to their people as to how they should vote. The tribal leaders are implicit in the corruption.
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I can see how that would gum up the works. We have a cult doing the bidding of a corrupt cult leader, but the cracks are starting to show.
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Yes, I am trying to keep track of it but their is so much fake news and hype.
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Running across the information and visual literacy standards for higher education was a big eye-opener for me. The skills needed to be information literate in the digital age are very sophisticated. https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework
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How lovely, Robbie — the photos too. I hope you’re feeling better. Hugs.
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Thank you, Teagan. I am better but it took a whole week
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wonderful Robbie: both poem and photos : your love shines through — never have wild grasses looked so beautiful —
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Hi John, I was quite delighted by the colours and play of light.
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you captured it well, it’s good you can write fine poetry too 🙂
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Robbie you have done this prompt proud! Great images both in words and photographs!
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Thank you, I’m so glad you like this poem. A great prompt.
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As we go into Spring, you go into Autumn.
Your love shines through Robbie!
I hope you are feeling better.
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HI Wayne, thank you, I seem to have recovered. Long may it last. There seem to be so many nasty illnesses around post-Covid. I’m glad you enjoyed this.
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It’s beautiful (as are your words) (K)
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Hi Kerfe, thank you. I am learning from you and Merril.
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We are all learning from each other I think.
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Yes, but both of you are teaching me how to look at things differently.
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I’m glad you feel that way Robbie.
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A passionate poem, Robbie. And the photos are amazing!
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Hi Jan, I’m glad you enjoyed this.
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You really convey how much you love where you live. 🩷🌷🌺
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I love the wildness and the animals.
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It’s a beautiful poem and the photos that go with it are beautiful as well
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Hi Thomas, thank you. I was captivated by the colours of the grasses at this time of year as well as the interplay of the light.
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Yes I can see that. It looks beautiful
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Nothing is more beautiful than natural beauty, Robbie. Your love for the untamed land of South Africa is beautiful. 😍💖
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Thank you, Miriam. I do enjoy southern Africa’s wild, untamed beauty.
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I see more untamed woodland here. The cities created hiking trails through the woods.
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That is very nice, Miriam. America does a lot for its people.
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I know, Robbie! We pay a lot of taxes, federal, state, and monthly services for many local services. Nothing is free here.
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No, but at least you get something in return for the money.
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Yes, we do and they make sure to have signs saying your tax money is at work here.
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That is good
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So beautiful Robbie
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Thank you, Sadje
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My pleasure
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⭐️
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💖
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I agree with the other commenters: Your love of Africa’s nature is wonderful 🙂
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Thank you, Dave.
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This is utterly wonderful, Robbie. I love how your art and your home are inseparable for you (or so it feels to me).
~David
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Hi David, that is true to an extent. Of course, I am showing you the best of life in southern Africa. I am not showing you the poverty or the deterioration in the infrastructure due to government corruption and misappropriation of taxes.
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😥
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💗
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Hi, Robbie 👋🏻
Just wanna let you know that this week’s W3, hosted by the brilliant Matt Snyder is now live:
https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/04/10/w3-prompt-102-weave-written-weekly/
Enjoy! 💕
Much love,
David
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Thank you, David.
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*hug*
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Lovely poem.
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Thank you
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I enjoyed your poem and pictures, Robbie. Fall is my favorite season. The wild grasses near you are pretty to look at.
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Hi Barbara, I don’t mind autumn but I don’t like winter. This is a pretty time of year. Winter is brown and dry.
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True – do you get snow in the winter where you live? I always enjoy a good snowstorm (if we’re all home and not on the roads).
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HI Barbara, we had snow on one day last year and the country came to a standstill. Not because it was thick but because it is so unusual.
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Wow!
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Lovely ode to your country – all those grasses – I can almost feel a sneeze coming on!
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Haha, Jan, that is the down side. We all take antihistamines at this time of year.
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That was lovely, Robbie.
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Hi Chris, sometimes we need to remember the positives – smile!
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Just a beautiful poem, Robbie. I can feel your love of the natural beauty around you. ❤
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Thank you, Diana.
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A wonderful cameo, Robbie. I love your depiction and love for your beautiful untamed Africa. 🦒❤️👏
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Thank you, Lesley.
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A beautiful tribute to your home land, Robbie, and your photos are gorgeous too. 🧡🧡
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Thank you, Lauren. I’m really pleased you like this poem.
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It is beautiful how the grasses simmer and shine. :)
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Hi Jules, I do love the light on flora and fauna too.
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Somewhere I have an image of some lovely pompus grass in New Mexico or Florida… with the sun shining on it 🙂
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That sounds delightful. I specifically try to take photographs that involve the light.
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📸 😀
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Absolutely beautiful
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Beautiful, the words as well as the pic.
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I am delighted you are enjoying my southern African wildlife pictures and poetry.
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I sure am. 😊
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