Once again today, no prompts used. It's Easter! And that's inspiration enough for me.
Joy
Joy is yellow,
the colour of beaming.
Unannounced as daffodils,
just as trumpeteering.
A sunburst of gratitude.
Love, gilded by wonder.
Nectar of light honeyed
into a gift of sweetness.
Yolk of full days
bright and buoyant,
life sunny side up,
enjambment delight.
A yellow room
in a yellow house,
hearth of a heart
warm and lit.
Horizon ahead
happy haze
of a mustard seed field
in summer.
You've done brilliantly to catch up after the Bank Holiday! (I'm going to have to start doing more than one poem each day, I think. I'm on holiday from the 17th-27th ad it's unlikely I'll get anything done poetry-wise then).
ReplyDeleteThis is light, and sweet, and lad - I like the descriptions you use in stanzas 1,2 & 4 very much, but stanza 3, in all its simplicity, is my favourite. That repetition of 'yellow' is just magic, implying warmth and containment and absolute yellowness from the inside out.
*"light, and sweet, and GLAD, that was meant to say!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cheryl - yes I was thinking it was *glad! :)
ReplyDeleteYou know I'm finding that I usually have 2 or 3 ideas buzzing around my head each day and I'll write a few different ones and then decide on what poem feels the most finished to post. But I'm just loving the inspiration NaPo creates. It makes poetry more fun - and takes the solemnity out of writing it. Not so much worries about perfection or block - just a go with the flow vibe! :)