(Season’s) Greetings, my poetic friends! De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) here, and it’s time once again for my favorite poeming prompt, the Quadrille. Did you know the Q is an original dVerse creation? A Quadrille is simply a poem of precisely 44 words, not counting the title, and including one word that we here at dVerse provide. And today, in the spirit of the season, I want you to ponder and play with the word spirit.
Drink in this inspiration, and pour us a powerful spirit poem cocktail. Or go ghostie with it. Get into the spirit of the holidays. Is your muse a restless spirit? Write about it! Use it as an adjective: spiritual, or spirited (lively, full of energy). Spirit can even be a verb: to convey rapidly and secretly.
New to the Q? Here’s what to do:
Pen us a poem of exactly 44 words (not counting the title), including some form of the word spirit. Post your poem on your blog, and link it up with Mr. Linky below. Then sprint about the blogisphere to read some of the finest poets around.
And drop us a line in the comments to say hi. How are you getting in the spirit of the season?
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Hi De! thank you for hosting today. I don’t start decorating and getting into the spirit of the season until about two weeks before Christmas. I still have some time to go yet. I put up a small ceramic tree that belonged to my grandmother. That is the extent of it.
Toni! My grandma had one of those, too. My mom has it now. I love it!
oh i’ve got one of them too, my cousin made it one year in a ceramics class!
My great-aunt made the one we have. Such nostalgia this brings!
Here we start with the first of advent to get into the spirit… so we started to do some decoration last night….
Bjorn, with the late Thanksgiving this year, and traveling for it, we started a week or so ago. Don’t have our live tree yet, but most of the rest is up. I LOVE this season.
Thanks for hosting, De. This is a fun word to play around with.
We don’t do much decorating, but the dining room is the Hanukkah room, and the living room is the Christmas room. We probably won’t do anything until a week or so before. 🙂
How fun, Merril! I love that!
Hello De and All. I’m doing a daily holiday coloring, a holiday song, and song origins post every day of December, which I hope will get me in the spirit. Big snow 2 days ago that stuck. De hot cocoa with marshmallows please, if you have some behind the bar.
Pouring it now, Jadeli. Yum. Your ways of getting into the spirit sound perfect to me! I’m doing an Advent reading, and a devotional called “Resting Merry.” Praying for fewer gifts this season, but more PRESENCE.
I love the idea of a reading and a devotional, it gets voices in the air and into ears. Less presents, more presence sounds perfect for generating good spirits. Cheers!
Hey, gang. It took my computer a few attempts and a restart to actually be able to SEE the new post today, so apparently it’s a spirited one. 😉 Hope everybody has a blast writing today. I’m pouring, of course, spirits of all types today. Cheers!
Perhaps a winter poltergeist at work????
Maybe so. A tricksy one, for sure!
Good evening all! Thank you for hosting, De, and for the spiritual prompt – it’s the closest I’ll get to the spirit of Christmas until the end of the week, when the antibiotics will have done their job and I can breathe again – and our little tree will come out and decorations will go up. I’m on my own again this weekend, so I’ll enjoy the peace and quiet with the cats.
Just rest up, Kim, and enjoy what the season means to you. Don’t need decorations to do that. Hope you’re feeling SO much better.
Thank you, De. I do feel much better than this time last week. At least I’m doing a bit of writing and posting.
So happy you’re here!
Rest, rest and more rest, Kim! Those cats will curl up with you and keep you cozy 🙂
They’ve been my furry nurses while my husband was away.
Furry loves are the BEST for healing.
Hello All- Finally on the mend after my root canal. It seems to be a time of aches and pains for some of us. This is is a wonderful prompt De. Thank you so much for hosting. Going to work on something now.
Ohhhhhh Linda! I’d rather have the flu for a week than a root canal! UGH! Feel better soon.
Thank you Lillian. They can be vicious.
YIKES! Praying healing and pain-free days over you, Linda Lee!
Thank you De.
Thanks for hosting, De! I am somewhat surprised to see it is already December. ‘Spirit’ is a good word for this time of year.
Sucker snuck up on me, too, Frank. 😉
Thanks for hosting, De! Oh yes, since Thanksiving was as late as it could be on the calendar this year, we put up our tree and decorations before we left — came home for the annual family Thanksgiving reunion in Chicago on Friday and opened our door to Christmas! I do love our candles, lit tree, and holiday music 🙂
Sounds so festive, Lil. I love this time of year!
Thanks for the inspiration, De. I’ve got my peppermint tea and I am ready to read.
Hi, Ali! So glad you’re here!
Thanks for always making me feel welcome.
I had trouble with Mr. Linky. My first 2 posts were bogus; please delete them.
Thank you to whoever got to this before me! 😉
No problem, Glenn. Glad you’re here!
Thank you for this quadrille prompt, De. A difficult word for where my head and my poesy are right now. I’ll cogitate on it awhile and see how the spirit moves me.
Hoping you find some inspiration!
Great prompt with loads of scope, thanks!
So glad you’re here!
thanks 🙂
Thank you for hosting tonight De — cheers! 🙂
Hi, Rob! Cheers!
Wonderful word, De! Thank you!
My pleasure! Glad you’re here!
Sascha, I cannot for the life of me get my comment on your poem to go through, no matter how many identities and search engines I try.
Here is the gist of what I said:
I LOVE “scrooging” as verb, and THIS:
“caught in curmudgeon catacombs
focused on festering rather than festiving”
So much word fun here! 🙂
Thank you, De! I appreciate your comments *and* the effort you made to get them to me! 🙂
What a fantastic prompt! Thank you for hosting, De! I’m a bit late to the party, having just finished with clients a little while ago and tidied up from the detritus of a snowy-sleety-freeze-filled day and … as I’m waiting for dinner to be ready … this felt like the perfect time to quadrille. 🙂
Left my link at the linky thingy. Can I have a bit of something to accompany my any-minute-ready-stew? Do you happen to have some ginger-lemon tea?
🙂 Na’ama
That sounds delicious, Na’ama! Cheers! Glad you’re here!
Hello, like Bjorn I started decorating with lights and stars last week. Although we have two birthdays in december, so all the little elfs and Santas has to wait until after Lucia.
Even so for me this is always a time for introspection, new beginnings and hopefully growth, so my mind is firmly on the spirit of this season as I see it. 🙂
Happy to hear you’re in the spirit of the season, RedCat! Hope you founds some inspiration here!
great word! (K)
Thanks so much! Glad you’re here!
Thanks for hosting, De! Great prompt of Spirit, in whichever way it is used. Hope all is well with everyone in the dVerse – Happy December! 🙂
Welcome! So happy you’re here!
I’m always late to the dVerse party. 🙂 I had a bit of fun with this word.
So glad you had fun with it, Merril! And the prompt’s open all week, so enjoy!
Good Evening, Poets! Thanks, De Jackson, for this Spirited post! 😉
My pleasure, Frank. 🙂
Adding my poem of spirit past that has taken on the persona of spirit future. I might need a shot in my hot cocoa tonight. Thank you, De, for this prompt. I’ve enjoyed reading the many variations of the word that others have used.
Peppermint schnapps is delicious in hot cocoa. (A blast from my past; it’s been awhile since I drank that one!) 😉 So glad you found inspiration here!