Here’s wishing you a happy Monday, dVerse poets, and welcome to the pub, which is now open! It’s Kim from Writing in North Norfolk bringing you the Quadrille, when we take any meaning of one word and transform it into 44 poetic words. Today, I want you to write a poem of exactly 44 words (not counting your title), including the word engrave.

Engrave can mean to cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object or cut (a design) as lines on a metal plate for printing. Some of the most famous engravers are: Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, William Blake, Paul Gustave Doré, Marc Chagall and Maurits Cornelis Escher.

If you say that something is engraved on your mind, memory or heart, you are emphasizing that you will never forget it, because it has made a very strong impression on you.

There are quite a few synonyms for the word ‘engrave’: carve, inscribe, cut (in), incise, chisel, chase, score, etch, imprint, impress, print, mark and sign.

I found some great poems that incorporate the word ‘engrave’.

‘Reading Moby-Dick at 30000 Feet’ by Tony Hoagland is one that stood out for me.

I felt drawn to a poem by Primo Levi called ‘Shema’.

‘The Fathers’ by Edwin Muir, impressed me with the lines: “But on our careless brows/ Faintly their furrows engrave / Like veinings in a stone”.

I also discovered Jordan Everly, a new poet to me, and his poem ‘Engraved’.

Join us in engraving our poems at the Poets Pub – please, not on the bar or the furniture! – and make sure your 44-word poem contains some form of the word engrave.

Here’s how to Quadrille:

• Write a poem of exactly 44 words, including the word engrave.
• Put your poem on your blog and link back to this post.
• Link it up to our Mr. Linky.
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• Visit other blogs. Enjoy some amazing poets. Comment. Come back later this week and write another one, and visit some more. Comment some more. Engrave as many poems as you please. I’ll be reading all week.