Stine Writing and Miniatures

W3 Prompt #121: Wea’ve Written Weekly

W3 Prompt #121: Wea’ve Written Weekly
https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/08/21/w3-prompt-121-weave-written-weekly/

Selma’s prompt guidelines

  • Theme: The beauty and perpetuity of the natural world that surrounds you;
    • Think about the simplicity of a blade of grass or a flower petal, of how every detail IS a life of its own;
  • Form: Any form;
  • Length: No longer than 400 words, but not too short;
    • If you write haiku or any of the short syllabic forms, please make it a long series where we can feel your surroundings.

Raindrop

The world around is quiet, no sound if you listen
the thunder and lightening with the rain has ended
Petals on the Ornamental Ginger Lotus glisten
A single drop of water rests on stems now bended.
The rounded glass prism that holds just a drop
stays surprisingly still as the clouds clear the sky
Using petals and stems as a form of a prop
until a slow warm wind comes when the bead says goodbye

©2024 CBialczak

One of my favorite things to capture in a picture is a single glistening raindrop on a flower petal. The first time I really noticed this beautiful image was when I was at Mable’s Rose Garden at the Ringling Museum in FL. I took pictures of roses that were so lovely but when I developed them (yes, it was before I had digital!) I noticed the drops of water and the way they glistened.

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    • Of course right now I have no idea where it is but a very long time ago my late husband and I with the kids had gone to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota. There we went to Mabel’s Rose Garden, she was John Ringlings wife. The roses were in bloom and it had just rained and I got a gorgeous picture of a rose with a rain drop on it. I love that picture.

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  5. Hello Christine. Aww. Your imagery quieted me. I too love to see the raindrops pooled in that manner. On flowers and cobwebs as well. Ephemeral beauty. 

    “The rounded glass prism that holds just a drop

    stays surprisingly still as the clouds clear the sky” —and isn’t it lovely too when you can see the entire sky in that one drop? Aww, I could die with beauty like this! 

    And the ending: gorgeous! the goodbye that floats you into a new hello in nature 🥰 

    Yeah, I could die in this poem and feel kissed. Thanks for sharing this moment with us. Thanks for participating. Bless you. 

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