World Poetry Day 2023
A Fascination For My Poet’s Eye
Always be a poet even with a prittle
When you come to my place and stop at the door, take a moment to note where you are. You’re here at my home where poetry lives — look around — you’ll find poetry embedded everywhere. Go right ahead, create poetry of your own or have yourself a wee piece of mine. Poetry’s free and it’s here for the taking — come along, I’ll show you around.
My garden’s a mess but it couldn’t care less and frankly nor do I. We’ve done well to survive Melbourne’s dry, off-and-on summer, now autumn’s arrived with aplomb. Long liriope straps wave and nod in the wind, the rosella-red geraniums hunker down. Spindly fuchsia canes dunk and thrust their ballerinas — watch them — high in mid-air they perform.
And in a blink a lone butterfly flutters by.
Look further and the agapanthus with their many spent heads await the day they all get the snip. Fairy irises gone to seed, balsam seen better days but there in the corner the yucca does the hard yakka in full sun hard up against a brick wall.
Dusted blue succulents tumble from terracotta tubs their resilience worth a miser’s fortune. There’s poetry in the rosemary, the azaleas are doing fine and the crepe myrtle’s put on a pretty show.
Beyond past my car and out over the road is Manika’s feijoa tree — yay! it’s fruiting. Not to be outdone, our young flowering gum is ungrammatically gumnutting! 😆
Uh..hmm…maybe turn a blind eye, I do apologise, for Moona’s roof solar panels — eww, aesthetically incongruous. 😖
And there centre back, our neighbour’s camellia stands grand, a proud privacy pillar — it’s doing better since we chopped out our diseased lemon tree — citrus gall wasp really is a bugger. 😬
Now cast your eyes above, there’s poetry in the heavens — ooh..oww, there it goes again — a poetry itch for a twittle! 😉
Wind-blown clouds scuttle by random patterns ever-changing a fascination for my poet’s eye artistry — poetry in the making
© Carolyn Hastings 2023
It’s World Poetry Day! ✨ a day to celebrate poetry ✨
And that’s exactly what we’re doing at Paper Poetry. 😊
This year, the theme is taken from Charles Baudelaire’s quote —
Always be a poet, even in prose.
I decided to celebrate with a kind of ekphrastic prittle (a prose poem-twittle combo) describing a scene from my front garden. Here’s a link to my other prittles if you’re interested — prittle list.
Speaking of combos, I decided to combine my contribution to World Poetry Day with Nevena Pascaleva’s writing prompt where she asked us:
would you dare to look through your windows? Would you dare tell me what you’re seeing?
To be honest, I wasn’t looking out the window when I took the photo of our garden — I was standing on our windowless front porch — oopsies! 🙄
Thank you, Nevena for the prompt. Please enjoy the poetry in her prose as she tells us why she’s afraid to look through her window —
Thank you also to Douglas Lim for tagging me into Nevena’s looking through the window prompt. Here is Douglas’ inspiring poem —
I’d like to invite Nevena and Douglas, along with everyone, to consider joining Paper Poetry’s Always Be a Poet prompt in celebration of World Poetry Day. 🙏 💜 You’ll find the details here —
Thank you all for reading. 🙏 💕
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