“Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire
To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!”
Phillis Wheatley Peters
A couplet of olives
For Grace’s MTB prompt we are Breaking the Couple – our poem explores the different ways couplet lines can mismatch,
Five Points Away
For my MTB prompt: Five Leavings From Home we’re writing in quintains with a choice of structure (crown cinquain) or unstructured as here.
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
