not winking: a quadrille

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Closing one eye

I am not winking

I am blinded by sunlight

Posing on one leg

I am not avian

I am practicing yoga

Singing the blues

I am not downhearted

I am indigo

Closing both eyes

I am not tired

I am listening

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The Monday afternoon dVerse challenge from WhimsyGizmo is to write a quadrille (44-word poem) using the word “wink”.

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

31 thoughts on “not winking: a quadrille”

  3. oh, wonderful word play – and as noted, the clear precision of this poem, the line breaks, the pacing, the word choices, purposefully direct us … to envision this, and it actually made me feel as if I was both witness to and striking up/into the moment, the preparedness, the focus, to take up the pose ….

    well done! well done. And you had me at the “wink” … reference to being blinded by the sun – how true is that! LOL – and I loved, I’m not avian …. really? not a Blue Heron majestically posing!

    great piece Janice 🙂

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  8. This was great! I like how it helps us to remember that we shouldn’t make quick assumptions. What looks like one thing might actually be something totally different. The avian and yoga lines made me smile – great word picture!

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