Fusing for tempests —
are you waiting —
are you baiting
me for sparks?
Am I excused —
for eardrums I’ve bruised —
for willows and wind —
for sorrow and sins?
No, says your stare —
No, tells the flares —
yours is my inquest.
Twerp by Francisco Goya
Today it’s time for Quadrille again at dVerse. De sparks our muse with the word spark. So let’s get all fiery in 44 words when we open at 3 PM EST.
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October 24, 2016
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Baiting for sparks…whew !
Good rhythm to this piece, Bjorn. 🙂 — Suzanne
Seems so powerful!
Very fiery indeed…”baiting for sparks”…wow, very risky and bold. The tempest made an appearance in my quadrille too….yikes, must be a universal storm out there.
I like the way this taunts…baiting the reader, within.
(You don’t need the apostrophe in “yours,” though.)
Fiery piece, Sir. Love it.
Many thanks… corrected…
I had to avoid your post on Facebook so as not to spoil the fun this evening – there’s no choir this week! Is this a play on the Emily Dickinson poem ‘Answer July’? It’s a sparkler of a quadrille! .
Ha.. yes I think I needed to get that out of my system… I like the questions
Wow. This is really awesome. In/quest is a clever touch. I also like the waiting/baiting rhyme, and the word “bruised” is always a favorite.
Bruised is a great poetic word (and it rhymes with used)
Ha ha ha. Touche. 😉
Another excellent piece from our favorite firebrand. Nice to be back to reading your output.
Nice to have you back on the trail
Hell-acious poem, Bjorn. Right now I wouldn’t mind a bit of that heat. Uh, maybe not.
‘No says your stare” – that tells the tale!
Phew!! Smoking hot 😀
I liked the phrase “baiting me for sparks”.
The stare pours so much ice over the sparks, very potent quadrille Björn.
It has immense power.
Nice take on the prompt.
This feels pretty unforgiving…no excuses will be tolerated. The finality feels so crushing.
This is very intense! It will certainly invoke lots of sparks!
Hank
Like this one Bjorn, very dramatic!
Those last three lines… ooh, I suddenly want to read more. There’s so much to this poem than those 44 words. Well done, Bjorn!
the beat, the rhythm. Geez! haunting!
The image adds a lot to this – am ominous tone indeed!
Goya is one of my favorite artists to use…
Now that is some spark! Love the full circle from title to last line.
The impending storm…
Love the tension.
Always more than just words in your poetry Bjorn. Always has me questioning, solving, pausing…
I really loved yours Hamish… such a pity I cannot comment yours… the thought of mistaking the sparks of the bonfire for fireflies sound like false lighthouses for a sailor to be shipwrecked…
Great take on the prompt. I love the line “No, says your stare.” A look can say so much, though with the stare “no” is usually the answer.
Ah, I can feel the tension and darkness that looms in the backdrop!
More of a blaze than a spark! Accomplished as ever.
This one “burns”
Baiting for sparks – something quite familiar around here. 🙂 I tell you, even those kinds of sparks break the doldrums in a day and that is what make them so so attractive.
Wow, I love this one!