Midweek Motif ~ May Day
or Walpurgisnacht
Today's challenge is to write a poem for May Day or to give a poetic account of a celebration that was.
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| Queen Guinevere's Maying by John Collier, 1900 "For thus it chanced one morn when all the court, Green-suited, but with plumes that mocked the may, Had been, their wont, a-maying and returned, That Modred still in green, all ear and eye, Climbed to the high top of the garden-wall To spy some secret scandal if he might ..." from Idylls of the King: "Guinevere" by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1859). |
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1. Post your new poem on your site, and then link it here.
2. Share only original and new work written for this challenge.
3. Leave a comment here.
4. Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.
(The next Midweek motif will be Children.)
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Good Morning, Poets United! Here it rains and rains. I hear the wind and the green things swaying and gulping down their drink.
ReplyDeleteHere's another little bit from Emerson:
May-Day
Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,
With sudden passion languishing,
Maketh all things softly smile,
Painteth pictures mile on mile,
Holds a cup with cowslip-wreaths,
Whence a smokeless incense breathes. . . .
The rest of this joyous poem is here: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/may-day-8/
It is steamy but bright here..a day away from May..to explain this is a pun on the French M'aidez..and hopefully a hint of change
ReplyDeleteA hint of change ... yes. Happy day, Jae. Thank you for taking part in our challenge.
DeleteSusan, I've just written a poem for the final day of NaPoWriMo that would work perfectly with this challenge as well... Posting the link, but if it's a problem since it's not originally intended for Poets United, please let me know and I'll scrounge up another one. *smile* Thank you for a wonderful prompt - we have rather special traditions on this day in Sweden...
ReplyDeleteIt fits here beautifully because of what May Day is to you. Love the bonfire. Thank you for participating in this challenge. I haven't written the good-bye poem yet, but I've already written and posted at the Garden. This may be a three-poem day. Rain gives me license to play, and today I am full of gratitude.
DeleteThank you Susan for the wonderful prompt...
ReplyDeleteAh! Always good to see you, Sumana.
DeleteWonderful prompt, Susan. Here, it is a teensy bit chilly still but I have my doors flung open. Your prompt sent me in the direction of my Irish roots, plus memories of bonfire leaping in Tofino. Yay!
ReplyDeleteGreat! Love Irish roots. And Tofino sounds more and more attractive.
DeleteGood night, Poets. I'll be back in the morning on May Day itself. Looking forward to more poetry reading!
ReplyDeleteHI thank ypu for the prompt just got round to my small offering, best wishes to all.
ReplyDeleteYour small offering is HUGE.
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