Hellooooo, intrepid poets! Are you hanging in there? 2020’s a bit of a beast, and maybe we can all use a little moment of peace. So let’s take a breath, and look up. See that vast and hope-filled sky?
It’s time today for that pithy little poem we call the Quadrille, a creation of our own making here at dVerse, in which we write poems of exactly 44 words including one word we send your way. Today, I shall paper-airplane-sail you the word sky.
Describe for us a skyline. Build a skyscraper of phrase. Scribe us something sky-blue true. Go skydiving into a rhyme. If you’ve been around dVerse any length of time, you know we love nouns used as verbs. So why not create your own usage? Can you sky a song? What would it mean to be skyshook, or bareskied?
New to the Q? Here’s what to do: Show us your skywriting by penning a poem of exactly 44 words, including some semblance of the word sky. Post your poem on your own blog, and link up using Mr. Linky below. Then surf the sky of poems that is this beautiful blogisphere. And don’t forget: the Quadrille is up all week, so come back again and again to read (and write) some more!
Maybe a little Hendrix to get you in the mood?
(Excuse me, while I kiss the sky.)
dVerse 
Beautiful Q word De and such inspiring quotes. Thanks for hosting !
Happy to see you here, Grace! My pleasure to host! 🙂
Hi De–and all. A good prompt word. I’ve been gazing at the sky quite a bit lately.
That Neruda poem made me swoon–wow–so sensual!
Merril, me too! Most of the year, it’s my substitute for not being near the sea, or my Lake Tahoe. Glad you’re here!
Thank you!
Hello… inspiring, the sky is still quite friendly, though if I look out right now the sky is ink.
We’ve got smokey skies still here, Bjorn. Crazy fires all around us in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Arizona. Looking forward to clear skies again.
The word is crazy indeed… so much being lost, and half a year ago it was Australia on fire.
Yes! Such a crazy, crazy year.
Thanks for hosting De! I am so sorry I went apocalyptic again. I seem to be doing this a lot lately 😳. I do love to see happy skies as well though. My motto for life at the moment is ‘hope for the best, prepare for the worst.’
Never apologize for where the muse takes you, Ingrid! Happy to see you here!
Hello De and all! This was a challenging prompt word which I enjoyed 😀 See you on the trail! 💝
Glad you’re here, Sanaa. Happy to present a challenge. 😉
Happy to respond to it! Yours are always amazing! 😀
Greetings, poetical friends! I’m serving up some delicious Skyy Vodka drinks today, as well as some blueberries in lemonade. Happy poeming!
We have had a fantastic season for blueberries… we have so much jam in the cellar. But this weekend we found mushrooms and lingberries.
YUM, to all!
Good evening all! Thanks for hosting, De, for the clear blue prompt word, quotations and example poems. We had blue skies all day today, but the weather will be changing mid-week. I’m off for another walk tomorrow morning while the going is good. we are facing another lockdown and, if there is one, I will be shielded again.
Awww, so sorry to hear that, Kim. Praying things clear up soon, on all fronts.
Thanks De. This week will be a revelation.
Fabulous word, De! Full of poetential.
Happy you’re finding some inspiration here, Sarah! Cheers!
Hi De and All. Another sunny breezy day but a little less warm. Today on the trip to the library I saw bits of non-green in the trees. Good prompt that got me looking up. Skyy Vodka mixed with blueberries in lemonade sounds perfect!
Serving it up just for you! I saw our first tiny leaves turning to Fall today, too.
Thank you so much. Cheers! Sorry to hear “Autumn Annie” (Willow, a poet, named her) is getting around.
We LOVE fall here in Southern Nevada! It’s very much our true spring. Instead of relief from the cold, we get it from the triple-digit heat. Those first crisp fall mornings are a godsend!
I should know that! Let me amend my comment to congratulations, De. Nice crisp air is a good thing there.
Thanks for hosting, De. Hello all from beautiful sunny and breezy Provincetown, at the very tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. You’ll find a few photos of skies I’ve spied over the past few years here…..always beautiful over the ocean, whether in a rain storm, a sun set or sun rise, or a gorgeous sunny cloudless day like it is today. I’ll be hosting Tuesday Poetics from here and then we go home to Boston on Wednesday. It has been a pure joy to hunker down and stay in our Covid bubble on the ocean. I am listening now to the tide rolling in!
Oh, Lill. I am so jealous I could spit. 😉
So happy for you to be in your happy place. Say hello to the sea for me. I miss her. Comin’ round to see your skies, now.
Hello, everyone! I’m looking forward to this.
So glad you’re here! Enjoy!
Stormy skies here in Australia, but it’ll blow away once the sun gets up. Thanks for the uplifting prompt De.
I loves me a stormy sky. 🙂
Hi De, greetings poets! Great prompt De, thank you! We need to be uplifted in theses heavy times, and sky is the perfect theme. I have been ill since Friday, but recouping and glad to be here. Gotta get back and read the OMN pieces that I missed. Thursday’s “live” OMN was wonderful fun — need to do every OMN “live”… JMHO… 🙂
So happy you’re here, and especially that you’re feeling better, Rob. I was bummed to miss the live OMN, for the second time. It’s a tricky time of day for my work schedule, sometimes.
Hello all. I went sad with this as the word sky always evoke’s my Brad’s blue eyes.
Awww, Toni. I’m happy you’re here, and hope you’re finding some comfort in writing.
Thanks for the prompt, De. “Sky” took me straight to the stars, which brought out the romantic in me.
Ooooo!
Heading over now. 🙂 Happy to see you here.
🙂
An added challenge, for those who dare:
Magnetic Poetry’s “original” online word kit happens to include the word “sky.”
Your skyfall mission, should you choose to accept it, is not only to write a poem of 44 words using the word “sky,” but also to write it using only words provided by the kit. When I use the kits, I simply take a screen shot of my finished poem, and then put that on my blog.
Happy magnetic writing, for anybody interested!
http://play.magneticpoetry.com/poem/Original/kit/
Cool idea De, but my batch of words had no “sky” in it? 😦
Did you click through “more words?” Maybe we’re all given different ones? Hmmm…
When I click my link above, and then click through “more words” for the choices for that poem page, “sky” always comes up as an option on one of the word lists. It’s not always on the first list, but it’s always available. They’re in alphabetical order; let me know if it’s truly not one of the choices on your end, so we can warn the others. 😉
You can also “build” words by layering over existing words with extra letters.
I clicked “more words” a number more times — and sky finally came up! 😉
Yay! 🙂
Link to my completed mag poem is now posted. That is FUN!!! 🙂 …great suggestion De.
So glad you had fun with it, Rob!
Such an inspiring prompt thanks De, sky has no limit!
Glad you’re here! 🙂
Hmm… my eyes are a little blurry, did you say the word was “sty”? Cool. Lots of possibilities.
LOL!
I had no choice:
A great pig of a cloud
hogs the sky –
Swine! So fat and lazy
it rolled over the sun
and now lays asnore
on its side all day,
the reek of rain
unbearable,
the children amok
up to their ankles
in slop
and squeal
LOVE it!
An uplifting prompt for sure, De, and you shared some wonderful quotes! I enjoy doing magnetic poetry but wrote my poem before I saw your suggestion in the comments. We’re waiting for the sky to clear so we can continue harvesting our soybeans 🙂
Happy you’re here, Lynn. Feel free to try, and post another! The Quadrille is up all week.
Sky here is in Cali smoke-brown. But I will write optimistically of blue.
Yes, I’m so sorry, Jedediah. We’re right next door, in Nevada. We share part of your smokey sky. Praying for your state, and especially the firefighters.
Thanks for hosting and “sky” is a great word to ponder.
Please delete my first link, I somehow linked back to dVerse. Thanks
No problem, Truedessa. Glad you’re here!
Thank you, De! A lovely prompt! It took me on a little journey, and some go higher than the others, as they say …
So glad you’re here! Heading over soon!
😀 yay!
Thank you, De, what a great prompt. I love skywriting with you. I was blocked from leaving comments on nearly half of the quadrilles, which is frustrating, especially after writing, hitting “post comment” and watching it disappear. To the amazing writers here, thank you for so much inspiration and imagery. I feel enriched and empowered!
Victoria, my blog is WordPress, and I have no problem commenting on those. If I want to comment on blogspot or some others, I have to switch my search engine to Firefox. It’s so silly, but from some reason that works for me. Sorry you’ve had a frustrating time. Nothing worse than finishing up a comment and having it disappear into thin air!
Thanks for hosting De. (K)
My pleasure!
Joining in this morning and then off for my treatment. 5 more to go!
Still carrying you in my heart, Linda. Sending strength, hope and love your way.
Thank you De!
this is a lovely prompt. Missed the Linky, so I’ll write something for the OL!
Oh, hey, didn’t miss it after all. Posted.
Yes! The cool thing about the Q is that it’s open all week! Glad you’re here!