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Hello everyone! We have a lovelyguest host today, Sara McNulty.
Hi Pubsters,
Purple Pen In Portland (Sara McNulty) here tending bar. Everyone is ordering purple drinks. Why do you suppose that is?
I am honored to be your guest host at this friendly neighborhood pub.
I have always had a fascination with buildings, small, large, stone, or straw (nod to The Three Little Pigs). I began thinking about designing my own building since the Flatiron Building is already taken.
Mad Hatter Towers
By Sara McNulty
A hat brim filled with enriched soil
for a fertile garden–all flowers
welcome. Each month a new
gardener applies for the opportunity
of planting his/her own delights.
Light up that hat in lavender
paint. Top it off with white
rabbit ears. Four stories
high, each with round windows
for incoming sun beams, lighting
up floors, doors, and walls.
Tea service available
on each floor. What’s more,
you can choose from a wall
of intriguing tea cups (some
in half cup sizes). If you are
fortunate, Alice might be on hand,
serving tea in grand style. Call
first. Hold your thirst. We are never
sure what hours we will be open
or closed.
Your challenge for today is to imagine that you have been given free rein to design any type of building you wish. What would your building look like? shape? materials? size?
Enjoy!
If you are new at D’verse, here’s how to play:
- Write a poem inspired by a designing a building and post it to your blog
- Click on “Mr. Linky” below and enter your name and direct link to your poem
- Drop in the pub to say hello
- Read and comment on other people’s work
- Share via your favorite social media platforms.
- Have fun !
About our guest host:
I have lived in Portland, Oregon for seven years, with my husband, and two dogs. Running an active poetry blog, co-hosting another, and my involvement in several online blogs keeps me busy. I am also a member of Voices in Verse, a poetry group that meets monthly.
Hi everyone! Welcome to poetics and a big thanks to Sara for hosting !!!!
Thanks to gracious Grace!
Hi Grace and all the poets at the pub today. Thank you for hosting Sara and for the inspirational prompt.
So glad you are here Kim ! Hope its not so cold in your part of the world today!
It has been chilly and breezy, but bright and sunny today, Grace. My washing was dry by late this afternoon! How was the weather where you are?
Foggy the whole day and looks like a lot more rains coming tonight. Hubby is being optimistic and says that spring is coming….still a long way from here ~ I envy your weather 🙂
🙂
My pleasure, Kim.
😊
Love the prompt… bring me a cosmopolitan today…
I will be hopping to read your castle home Bjorn ~ I think we can be creative as our imagination can take us ~
I actually included two houses in my poem… 🙂 Is that cheating?
Ha 🙂 I love it when the house is poetry 🙂
Thanks, Bjorn. I guess a Cosmo qualifies for the purple drink. Cheers!
Hi Grace, and many thanks to Sara — what an imaginative and wonderfully challenging prompt. To be a poetic architect — what a whimsical write this can be.
Hi Lorraine! Whimsical is fine, let your creative mind wander freely!
Thanks Grace. I’ll see where my mind takes me. After finishing the mundane laundry.
Thanks so much for participating, Lorraine.
I think so far, I am the only person happy with my current home and it is our dream home. My husband is building me a treehouse in the back yard – as if I needed one more perch in the trees. Imaginative prompt!
Good for you to have your dream home Toni ~ You should take a photo of that treehouse in the backyard ~
I am happy with my home as well, but we have to move back to NY. No treehouse, though.
😦 sorry about the move back. But the internet has no boundaries. Maybe a treehouse in the future???
You never know!
I posted a small poem about my dream small house. It occurred to me that the location where the house is is as important as the house. In my case, I would imagine the small house or cottage to be near forest preserves, libraries, cafes, botanic gardens, and parks. In a sense that makes the house rather large.
As I grow older, the location is important to me too ~ I can imagine retiring in the small house near the forest and parks ~
Add in ocean, and you’ve got it made.
Ah, a favorite theme! I’ve oft thought of writing a poem being similar to building, laying down words in courses,
Bring it on Erbiage ~
Glad you liked the theme, Eric, and your observation about poems as buildings is well taken.
this is such an imaginative prompt, simple but with huge potential to be a great read from everyone, hi Sara and thank you for hosting this!
Thanks for joining us ~ I am glad to see you hanging out in the pub today ~
its a very nice place to be – looking forward to read more of the submissions later on today – thank you for your warm welcome
Misplaced my comment to you. Sorry about that. Glad to see you here!
no worries! happy to be here!
love the prompt…flying visit from me tonight…busy day completed…more to come tomorrow…happy reading and writing all.
Enjoy your vacation ~ Thanks for visiting our pub tonight ~
Busmans holiday 😉
Have fun on vacation, Paul!
It’s work….mostly 😉
Well, have fun on the parts that are not work!
Thank you Sara. A lot of ideas came and fizzled before something settled in. It almost felt like work. Better make mine a double!
Coming right up Erbiage ~
Thinking about what people have written, it occurred to me that my ideal house would be a Hobbit house located in the Shire.
Perfect for me too Frank ~
Very cool, Frank!
Sara, I am so happy to see you hosting and posting. 🙂 I loved this. Thank you! ❤
Coming up! Thanks so much, De.
Hi, Sara, nice to see you behind the bar. I’ll have a lavender daiquiri, please.
Thanks for that lovely comment, Single!
Thanks for the wonderful prompt, Sara. 🙂 I went a bit whimsical on this one. Looking forward to reading others tonight.
Whimsical is how I live. Thanks so much, MIsh!
I came upon this quote today from Emily Dickinson which seem to me to be related to the prompt and seems to resonate with what I have read.
Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God’s residence is next to mine,
His furniture is love.
Lovely one Frank ~ Thanks for sharing ~