WHISPERS’ JUNE ACTIVITY—THE ART OF ALLITERATION

Langley Shazor, a talented writer, graciously offered to be the activity editor for June.  He selected—Alliteration--“the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)”--Definition courtesy of Merriam-Webster Dictionary.  It adds a rhythmic feel to poetic lines.

The Exercise—Langley invited readers to share in his challenge, an open themed four-line poem, with a singular subject or thought. Each line using a different letter or sound. No word count or syllable count restrictions. Writers were asked to title their poems.

What a wonderful response! I would like to thank Langley for his efforts to bring so many writers together.  I am grateful to all the poets that contributed to this column.  If you missed the deadline, you can add poems in the comments section.

                                       --Karen O’Leary, Whispers’ Editor

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Scintillating Snowflakes

Wintry white wisps wondrously whirl

Soft sparkling snowflakes silently swirl

Coolly carpeting countrysides carefully

Dazzling diamonds dancing delightfully

By Jan Allison

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Backyard Praise

Sun-facing spiderworts parade in purple.

Tulips tease teacup roses; petunias

planted in rainbow rows primp and pamper.

Lilies lift liquid lines aloft.

By Michael Escoubas

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A Special Girl

Bright bubbly boisterous

Peppy pretty young thing

Always alights a

Feeling of fury

By David Fox

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Fickle Friend

Changes cut connections:

a friendship forgotten

and lustful lover lost;

abandoned, avoided...angry!

By Jack Horne

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Transformation Awakening

Silence speaks softly, surely

Paralleling promises, provoking peace

As authenticity and autonomy awaken

Beginning, blossoming, beholding beauty.

By Rebekah Townsend

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Vernal Equinox

Birches broken by bright brittle ice

have fallen to the forest floor;

the wind whispers words of wise comfort

to me: green grows again, greet great spring.

By Kelley White

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Country Roads

Sandy, soft, sacred soil savored

Calm, cool, canopied, carefree place

Picturesque painting a panacea

Luminous, luculent road lumbering home

By Sara Kendrick

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Dog Days

Happy humble hummingbird

busy bumble bee

Summer sunshine sparkles

through the tulip tree.

By Barbara Tate

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A Wicked Winter

Suspended snow, sprinkled like salt

collects in craters and cradled

by frozen files of fir trees, far

too harsh for human habitation.

By Annie Jenkin

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Wagon Train

Wooden wagon wheels wobbling

Sometimes skidding side to side

Abruptly alerting an avalanche

Perching proudly, but precipitously

By Elizabeth Howard

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Om Mane Padme Hum

Opening over October's orations

My meditations merging into Mandalas -

Prayers persist in perpetual pleading

He in his heavens hears, He in his heavens hears

By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan

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Folk Music

Treasured tunes

gather generations ~~

singing soul songs,

making memories

By Karen O'Leary

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For the Forty-Nine

Gunned down and gay,

the pride of "Pulse".

Let there be love.

Together today

By Ralph Stott

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Moonlight

Mirrored madness, should we mourn?

Solemn, standing on a suspended sky

Pure and proud, perhaps we should praise?

Breathless, broken, and yet utterly beautiful.

By Anna Broyles

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The Big Day

Lily lined lace covers lashes

Ebony engulfed elegance

Sentinels stand stoic and still

The calm convergence of connectedness

By Langley Shazor

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