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Photo Prompts: Spanish Lace Photo Play 2

By Heather Eure 10 Comments

Special thanks to all our photographers and poets who participated in last week’s poetry and photo prompts. Images and words, that together, hinted and tugged at the mystery of nature. Here’s part of a poem by Richard that we felt paired well with a few of our photos:

We are lace, of invisible Plaiting
and densest Cordonette, Tallied
in the darkness to make a light,
fractal in a fabric, on the edges of eternity.

—Richard Maxson

Be sure to check out the rest of our favorite highlights from each participant on the Photo Play Pinterest board. And keep clicking and/or playing with words.

NOTE TO POETS: Looking for your Monday prompt? On Photo Play days, it’s right here. Choose a photo and use it to jumpstart a poem!

Featured photo by HisFireFly. Post by Heather Eure.

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Heather Eure
Heather Eure
Heather Eure has served as the Poetry Editor for the late Burnside Collective and Special Projects Editor for us at Tweetspeak Poetry. Her poems have appeared at Every Day Poems. Her wit has appeared just about everywhere she's ever showed up, and if you're lucky you were there to hear it.
Heather Eure
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  1. Donna says

    February 17, 2014 at 9:24 am

    Love this, Richard – especially “fractal in a fabric, on the edges of eternity”. So much light in those few words.

    I was not very popular in my house this morning as I stood with the door wide open, hanging 10 on the iced over sill to snap this- http://thebrightersideblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/captive.html

    she spins
    and grins
    has you pinned
    in icy lace

    swallow fate
    and wait
    for
    spring

    Reply
    • Richard Maxson says

      February 17, 2014 at 12:19 pm

      Thank you, Donna. Gorgeous photo. Ice storms are such a mixed bag; they can produce amazing images, but cause so much destruction. Thanks for capturing the beautiful side of ice and sharing.

      Reply
    • Heather Eure says

      February 17, 2014 at 3:15 pm

      Wow. Thanks for sharing the poem and photo, Donna. The ice in the twigs is lacy and almost spiderweb-like. Glad you captured it, just don’t slip! 🙂

      Reply
      • Donna says

        February 17, 2014 at 6:11 pm

        🙂 I’ll be careful! Thank you Heather and Richard.

        Reply
  2. Maureen Doallas says

    February 17, 2014 at 9:29 am

    Wonderful.

    Reply
  3. HisFireFly says

    February 17, 2014 at 10:53 am

    what a nice surprise to open this posting! thank you!

    Reply
    • Donna says

      February 17, 2014 at 11:04 am

      Your image is so beautiful!

      Reply
    • Richard Maxson says

      February 17, 2014 at 12:21 pm

      HisFireFly, Your photograph of the light through the lace of limbs and branches is captivating.

      Reply
  4. Richard Maxson says

    February 17, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Thanks, TSP for posting an excerpt from my poem.

    Reply

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