My poem: encroaching, exploring

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: encroaching, exploring
Poetic form: rispetto
Rating: Gen
No. of lines: 8
For: GYWO Yahtzee Roll #3 prompt:


the dune gave in to envy of
the sea and swept by doors and walls
in tidal waves of sand, the wish
to flood begetting claiming squalls

like swarm which strays beyond the dale
upon a wish to swim and sail
in search of nectar on the brine
for honeycomb of salt and shine

I was inspired also by this chocolate wrapper and used it for a collage. I even purchased the bee stickers today to make it. I haven't actually ate the chocolate yet. I am waiting for summer to settle in.



I like bees and honey. Of course, from an ecological perspective, bees are very important. I rarely eat honey directly from the jar, but I like the flavour in things. The boys' father loves honey and local honey best. He eats it for breakfast everyday and whenever I'm somewhere with local honey, I buy some for him. I like bees and honey as a motif for writing, crafting, puzzles, etc. and given it's cannonical that Sherlock Holmes kept bees in retirement, I've written tons of fic and poems about Holmes' bee-keeping.

Who else liked bees? Emily Dickinson.

To make a praire by Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.




Fannish 50 #1: Sherlock Holmes
Fannish 50 #2: Many Fandoms - Fannish Items I Own
Fannish 50 #3: Agatha Christie
Fannish 50 #4: Museums
Fannish 50 #5: Hard Boiled Detectives
Fannish 50 #6: Steampunk
Fannish 50 #7: Facial sheet masks.
Fannish 50 #8: J-hope of BTS
Fannish 50 #9: Collage materials
Fannish 50 #10: Holiday blend coffee
Fannish 50 #11: Inspector Rebus
Fannish 50 #12: Postcards
Fannish 50 #13: Jigsaw Puzzles
Fannish 50 #14: Holmesian Poetry
Fannish 50 #15: Miniature rooms
Fannish 50 #16: Jeeves & Wooster
Fannish 50 #17: The ocean
Fannish 50 #18: Audiobooks
Fannish 50 #19: The Tuesday Murder Club series by Richard Osman
Fannish 50 #20: Chocolate
Fannish 50 #21: BVM
Fannish 50:#22: Bees & honey

Comments

[malinaldarose]

Pretty! That's the fanciest chocolate label I have ever seen. The lattice paper is very effective as a background.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Yes, a friend keeps a look out for fancy chocolate wrappers and usually sends me some for my birthday or Christmas.

I LOVE the layer pack I got (which included the lattice background) and lots of other fun layers with different textures. I really, really like the effect but it's difficult to glue. But, yeah, it looks like a net.

[smallhobbit]

What a great combination of prompt and chocolate wrapper to make your poem. And I do like the bee stickers.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!!

I remembered the bee stickers at the craft store were that same colour gold-orange so I thought it would make a good spread. I didn't use all of them so I can make another bee spread soon. I am trying to do my yahtzee prompts with some short verse.

[debriswoman]

This works really well re bee and wrapper, and I like the poem:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! It's a beautiful wrapper. I was inspired. Thank you. I am still saving the chocolate itself but I know it won't be for long. It sounds really good.