This week I’m very late with Visual Dare. A picture and a prompt that makes you think. The little girl looked so sweet so I couldn’t do a really black one, instead a little pentameter poem about a minor mischief.
It wasn’t really mother disobey
in falling snow she’d leave, no one would see
and as today they rest, it’s boxing day
to beg is futile, they deny her plea
she leaves the house for stable, gingerly
in falling snow she brings her father’s horse
and cross the meadows takes the liberty
but shortly she is found again of course
her father trying to be stern and fast
for tingling laughter anger never last
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December 7, 2012
Björn Rudbergs writings 
I love all these poetic spins on the prompt – I’ve never really gotten much poetry before now, and now that I am I can say I’m quite addicted!! This one paints such a lovely portrait without a lot of overt “telling,” and the father’s struggle to keep a straight face while he disciplines his daughter is common to any parent across the ages. Great spin on the prompt, wonderful verse. Well done!!
I love to try to capture a story with poetry. Sometimes it adds to the story by its rhythm, and you can hint what’s happening to some extent.
I agree completely with Angela, and I too enjoy your uniquely woven, poetic responses to the visual dares!
Thank you so much, I love to use poetry to tell stories. I think that a lot of poetry is to much feelings, and to little storytelling.
Good job on this one Bjorn. I like the lyrical flow of this piece.
It was great prompt photo that I felt very drawn towards, but real life got in the way of writing again!
Thank you, it was a hard one for me. I’m usually for a more sinister twist. But this one I could not do dark, then it’s poetry.