“Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire
To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!”
Phillis Wheatley Peters

words that inspire


Maidenhead

For Lisa’s Open Link Night and her optional prompt of a Phyllis Bramson mixed media painting “Between the Falling in Love Parts” the title of which I’ve incorporated into the the first line of this poem

The lapping waters

Grace is hosting open link night and since I missed Melissa’s Poetics prompt on Tuesday I’m linking here instead,

Fallacious

For my MTB prompt: Compounding the Stem we are composing in the style of the Compound Word Verse