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Greetings, intrepid poets! De Jackson here, aka WhimsyGizmo. It’s Quadrille Monday (my favorite!), when we pen poems of exactly 44 words, including one word we here at dVerse provide.
Today, let’s talk chalk.

Have you heard the phrase “chalk and cheese?” It’s new to me, and apparently it’s used to describe two people or things that are very different from one another.
Chalkboard, chalkdust, chalking it up to (something), chalk-white, chalky, chalk-stained, chalk outline. Use it as a noun, adjective, or verb. Feeling original? Chalk it up to creativity and invent something. What would a character named Luke SkyChalker do? What happens during a chalk aftershock? What grows if you plant chalkseeds? (I think maybe poems. Or am I full of poppychalk?)
I’ve never read this author, but isn’t this passage fun?

From Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends.”

Convinced you’ll only write a chalk poem “when pigs fly?”
Check out the crazy-awesome work of my favorite chalk artist, David Zinn, for further chalky inspiration.
New to the Q? Here’s what to do:
Just chalk us a poem of precisely 44 words (not counting the title), including some form of the word chalk. Link it up by clicking Mr. Linky below. The prompt is open for the whole week, so remember to come back and read (and write!) some more!
Now get out there and talk the talk, walk the walk, and chalk the chalk.


Music inspiration by Three Days Grace, “Chalk Outline.”
Greetings, my poetical friends! Today I’ve got sidewalk chalk in all the brightest colors…as well as hot and cold drinks. (Is it just me, or is the weather just about everywhere NUTS?) Happy poeming!
“Poppychalk”—love. ❤
Heehee. Thanks. Write me sumthin’.
Academic banquet’s tonight, but I’ll try. 🙂
Chalk it up to fickle spring!
Thanks for hosting, De. I enjoyed this prompt and for me, it flowed into the NAPOWRIMO prompt as well. Got me remembering the days of my early girlhood.
Loved it, Lill. Nice prompt mashup!
Love that artwork by David Zinn, De.
Oh, man. Me, too. I have followed him on Facebook for awhile now. His process is AMAZING.
I’ve just found him on Instagram, yay!
So glad! I own some of his postcards. i just love his work.
Well….that was a very nice presentation, and original one…had a lot of coffee today, so I should go for tea really..
Comin’ right up.
Hi De and all! Fantastic prompt, De. Thanks for hosting. My sleep addled mind pushed me in this direction. Will read tomorrow. Good night.
Headed over now! 🙂
Happy Easter
Much💛love
Happy Easter, Gillena! 🙂
Has anyone heard how Rob Kistner is doing? He was in hospital last Thusday (OLN night) and his wife Kathy came on chat to let us know.
Oh, no! Praying, Lill! Please keep us updated if you hear anything!
De, thanks for hosting. Love the quotes and the music video. Weather here is so fickled.
Hi, Grace! My pleasure!
We’ve got a little more heat than we want here today, plus wind. Again. Sigh.
thanks for the prompt, turned out to be more difficult than expected: Bringing it to the right nr of words.
The Quadrille can be a bit of a beast that way! A good challenge, though. 🙂
beast – you are not kidding, thanks De
great prompt
will catch up reading when I can a bit here and a bit there
before chalking it up on the board
thanks rog
Cheers, Rog! Glad you’re here!
Hi De! Good to see you over here; I feel like I’m back home from the NPWM retreat! Got a two-poem day out of these prompts today!
NICE!
Kathy Kistner here. Rob is still in bedrest, but he says hello De. His doctors are putting him through some tests this week. I transcribed and published this to his poetry blogsite for him, and posted the link here. His thinking is clear, and voice is getting more steady, so his instructions were pretty good. It seems to have worked. If all tests are OK, and God willing, he should be back on his feet next week.
Kathy! Thank you SO much for updating us! So much love and healing prayers to Rob. And love to both of you.
Hello there De and all of y’all friends! This was so lovely a prompt! I am glad to have poked my head in. 🙂 Na’ama
So happy you did, too, Na’ama.
Evening, poets! Thanks, De Jackson, for the pubtend! How about some burgundy? 😉
You got it, Frank.
What a great prompt! I just finished writing from today’s National Poetry Writing Month prompt and I can’t do another poem tonight. I will visit some of this evening’s contributions by others.
I would love a glass of virtual wine—no side effects for the morning.
One cyber-wine coming right up, Ali. No chalky hangover. 😉
scraped my fingernails on the chalkboard before I went to bed last night – a welcome distraction into the past, from a troubling present moment. I’ll post and link just now, before I drift off into the dust. Am drinking pure tapwater, if there is such a thing, from a third-hand mug 😉 PS I love the discipline of the quadrille! My friend Hyphen helped…
I loves me some hyphens. 😉
Thank you De, it recalls the artist’s pastels for me, though I do remember chalk as a teacher’s missile! 🙂
Ha! That’s a hilarious visual! Headed back out to read now.
I copped a few of those 🙂
I’ve double-dipped. Just a quick friendly reminder that you’re free to do the same. 🙂
Also, K.Hartless, your link does not work. Help!
I am a day late and a dollar short …. here nonetheless. LOL Still morning in Oregon, may I have an Irish Coffee???
You got it, Helen. I shall join you. Still morning here, too. 🙂
Hello All… back one day late for this… easter break was short and sweet this year.
I might chalk up something small, but if not, enjoy.
Hello, Sir! Happy to see you and hope you had a great break!
I was out in the sun… we hiked 33 km and slept one night in tent… so it was really good.
Sounds perfect.