Thursday, October 16, 2014

"Sisters"

Wikipedia: The Pleiades, 1885 by Elihu Vedder












Sailing on a moonbeam,
sojourners of the night;
seven silent sisters
surrendering their light—
slipping through the cosmos
suspended in the stream…
sustaining winter’s dream.

© Ginny Brannan 2014

The Pleiades is a cluster of seven stars, also known as the “Seven Sisters,” primarily viewed in the winter months in the Northern Hemisphere. Trying a new poetry form called “Pleiades” invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman. It consists of seven lines, each line starting with the same letter as the title. The title is always a single word.



20 comments:

  1. Very pretty. Excellent use of the prompt and the extra credit,

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  2. This is a lovely poem and I like the symbolism of seven..

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  3. Surrendering their light, slipping through the cosmos ~ I like how you depicted the birthing of the stars ~

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  4. i like the way the rhyme plays in this...with the all starting S sounds...and cool play on the story behind the form as well...sounds pretty coming out as well..smiles.

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  5. This is gorgeous, Ginny, and I see we've used the same image—so impressed with your rhyming :)

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  6. yes, I could see my kids, eyes all aglow reciting that.

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  7. Wow, you even got meter and rhyme to work. This makes me want to dance!

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  8. All around perfect poem for the prompt...well done!

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  9. So well you have caught their story,.. A wonderful flow in your lines,

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  10. The lovely dance of the sisters in the winter sky captured beautifully!

    Thanks a lot.

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  11. this was written with ease... wonderfully written

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  12. Oh Ginny this is lovely; my favorite of them all. Form, content,rhyme and word choice are all...stellar!

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  13. Love this part:
    "seven silent sisters
    surrendering their light"

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  14. I like how you portray those playful sisters...simply wonderful!

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  15. Groovy piece. Love- " slipping through the cosmos / suspended in the stream…"

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