Heed the silence that white noise breeds
Its waves rippling across the expanse
Reaching eagle, stag and man
As its message cascades forth
Carrying peace, if you but hear it,
Heed the silence that white noise breeds
Abandon hope for tonality in its roar
Instead, find comfort in its strength
Its waves rippling across the expanse
Braided tresses of sound flowing
Invoking silence from all who hear
Reaching eagle, stag and man
This is my reply to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry Challenge #33: Silent cascade, which is to write a cascade poem inspired by a waterfall painting, with these suggested words: cascade, tresses, eagle, abandon and rippling.
Cascade ~ four three-line stanzas, without rhyme
~ three lines of the first verse used successively as last lines of following verses
~ line pattern A/B/C, d/e/A, f/g/B, h/i/C
~ longer poems may be created by having a longer first verse
Image source: Wikipedia (Silence, Waterfall and Forest by Arthur Bowen Davies, (1862-1928)
Even I couldn’t find Silence in that image….beautiful take…
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Thank you
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Pleasure..
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Splendid 🙂
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Wonderful. I love the first line and “Braided tresses of sound flowing.”
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🙂
I was pleased with that line. I wanted to find a different use for tresses.
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It worked! 🙂
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I saw that white noise too…nice flow. (K)
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White noise is.my friend. For many years the left ear, but now both.
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