Today’s Not Without Poetry prompt had the most amazing photo. I’m not sure I managed to purge all adjectives but I think this had to be written for that photo. NaPoWriMo said write within 5 min. I didn’t hit that mark for sure.

Wakes

The day was long
This day of dancing.
At dawn the sound
was soft in the mist.
The folks walked behind
witness and celebrant.
The musicians walked along,
gathering from place to place.
The dancers, men of town,
mystery had from fathers.
They bore aloft the antlers
kept by the church,
the horns of animals
not known here.
The maid, the hunter, the hobby.
In a year I shall bear the triangle
as once did my father,
so I went along
this year with my raven
as though we were the fool.
After the dance
and the crawl,
after the compline
the men took me and the others
and put on us
marks of our positions.
I was proud to pose with my raven
before the photo
of my triangle.

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And in haiku-news, I did actually write the three haiku on my entry form. Hope the organizers have a sense of humor about them LOL. On the other hand, I don’t exactly know what a narrative for a quilt would be, so I think I covered my bases.

Short Artist Bio (with alternate ending)

A machine quilter,
Herder of cats, love fruitcake,
Upstate New Yorker.
(Writer of Haiku)

Brief Narrative Quilt #1, in two parts

Cotton and silk bits
Machine-pieced, machine-quilted
All-cotton batting.

Count each day’s passing
Throw your thoughts into a pool
Keep still and keep watch.

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and finally a haiku tweeted earlier today:

Purry furry cats
Sleeping off the afternoon
Will dinner wake them?
#poetrymonth #haiku #kittens