We are patchwork, we
a constellation of colours
lighting children’s eyes
so many shades and blades of grass
in blue skies, bright or
clouded grey and white
blossoming, blooming
bursting forth
in springtime meadow-light.
© Experimentsinfiction 2021, All Rights Reserved
April has been extended!
By Paul Brookes of The Wombwell Rainbow. He has hosted a special ekphrastic challenge for the month of April as part of NaPoWriMo2021, and though I didn’t take part, I read and enjoyed many of the responses.
When I learned that today had been renamed April 31 in honour of Kerfe Roig’s wonderful collage ‘Full of Children,’ I felt I must respond. I find ekphrastic poetry very hard, but this artwork really spoke to me. Read more of the responses on Paul’s site.
Experiments in Fiction 
Lovely! A beautiful response.
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Thank you 🌸
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A lovely, joyous response, Ingrid!
That’s interesting that you find ekphrastic poetry very hard.
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Thanks Merril! I find it much easier to write a poem first then find an image to fit, but this one was so lovely it was easy to come up with a response.
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💙
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Love your interpretation. 🌈💖
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Thanks Michele 💕
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Great job on this poem Ingrid and we each indeed bring something to the table that’s needed piecing together our gifts to humanity!👏👏👏💖
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Thanks Cindy: a global hug is needed right now 🤗 🌎 ❤️
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Totally true Ingrid!!! 💖
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Love this xx
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Thank you 😊
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Your words flow beautifully, Ingrid, and are so full of the joy and mystery of the artwork above! Love that you were moved to letters and back again.
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‘so many shades and blades of grass’ I like that phrase, and your internal rhymes.
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Thank you Jane.
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your lovely verse and Kerfe’s delightful patchwork reminded me of my years in child protection … one child from the inner city spoke of all the blades of grass :)
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That is really moving and beautiful to know, thank you Kate.
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thank you both for your constructive creativity! A blessing to know you both :)
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I’m so pleased with this response Ingrid–thanks! (K)
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I’m glad you like it Kerfe!
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A beautiful response to Kerfe’s art Ingrid! 💛
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Thank you :-)
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