Free Thoughts - Poetry on Concrete Objects

[wildsweetone]

i've been thinking about this idea for a month or two and checked in with RF to make sure it was okay with her. this is a poetry thread of free thoughts based around specific given concrete objects.

so to start, the first concrete object is


window

from dictionary.com
–noun
1. an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
2. such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed.
3. the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows.
4. a windowpane.
5. anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address.
6. a period of time regarded as highly favorable for initiating or completing something: Investors have a window of perhaps six months before interest rates rise.
7. Military. chaff1 (def. 5).
8. Geology. fenster.
9. Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic.
10. Aerospace.
a. launch window.
b. a specific area at the outer limits of the earth's atmosphere through which a spacecraft must reenter to arrive safely at its planned destination.
11. Computers. a section of a display screen that can be created for viewing information from another part of a file or from another file: The split screen feature enables a user to create two or more windows.
–verb (used with object)
12. to furnish with a window or windows.
13. Obsolete. to display or put in a window.

have fun!

 

[wildsweetone]

Window

There is a space between inside and out
that is groomed with clear glass.

On one side sits a love-struck lass,
the other, a garden of blooms.

Her eyes flit across the colour,
sweep to the secret garden beyond

where mushrooms are buried
in mid-morning shadows

and the promise of later delight
paints a smile on the window between.

 

[ghost_girl]

hi WSO

I'm really trying to come up with something pertaining to "window". I have written about 10 poems in the last 2 days, but window just hasnt got anything going inside me yet.

Just wanted to show your thread some love and let you know I'm tryin'



julie

 

[wildsweetone]

hi WSO

I'm really trying to come up with something pertaining to "window". I have written about 10 poems in the last 2 days, but window just hasnt got anything going inside me yet.

Just wanted to show your thread some love and let you know I'm tryin'



julie

hi lovely lady. it's all fun and enjoyable. you don't have to use the word 'window' - just do the bounce thing from the object or one of its meanings. share when you're ready. no rush, or pressure or prizes lol

 

[ghost_girl]

hi lovely lady. it's all fun and enjoyable. you don't have to use the word 'window' - just do the bounce thing from the object or one of its meanings. share when you're ready. no rush, or pressure or prizes lol

thank you

I ache to participate, but any type of "challenge" where I have to perform, so to speak, freezes my brain like a pop quiz in trig. Makes me feel like a jellyfish, lol.

okay, I will keep it on my radar, just under the the screen a bit, and maybe something will rise up and bite hard enough to make me write it out.

 

[wildsweetone]

A season of change

The trees are calmer today
as if the storm yesterday
had worn them out -

they spread
their bone-limbs wide,
cast dissent to the wind
to cross the land
that fed them.

Today, the birds are happy
flitting from one sun-drenched branch
to another, chattering
as the oak leafs will next month.

The world is golden,
viewed through pine pollen rain.

 

[Unbridled_Passion]

Outside My Window

nothing lovely today,
just the same old, same old.
the same scenery
as yesterday,
only a day late and a dollar short.
I wish my life would show some
excitement,
some sort of liveliness.
only, mine is always
the same.

 

[wildsweetone]

Looking Out On Limbo

The garden waits.
The lull between Winter
and Spring has descended,
a gap between Southerlies
and Westerlies
that contains quiet,
the peace moments
after snowfall
in a place that is never white.

 

[RhymeFairy]

Sweets ...

I love the window, limbo rhyme. So I went in search of rhymes to get a lil imagery going to my mind. Not many that I could come up with but I did find these quotes from Shakespeare ::::



Such and such pictures; there the window; such Cymbeline: II, ii
Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun Sonnets: XXIV
Our windows are broke down in every street King Henry VI, part I: III, i
That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes. Sonnets: XXIV
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you King Lear: III, iv

Wouldst thou be window'd in great rome and see Antony and Cleopatra: IV, xiv
When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window: All's Well that Ends Well: IV, ii
The very doors and windows savour vilely. Pericles, Prince of Tyre: IV, vi
Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out Romeo and Juliet: I, i
Looking out at the window. The Taming of the Shrew: V, i
In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither Much Ado About Nothing: II, iii

For a hen! so, my good window of lattice, fare thee All's Well that Ends Well: II, iii
Determined of; how I must climb her window, The Two Gentlemen of Verona: II, iv
Chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon A Midsummer Night's Dream: III, i
A lass unparallel'd. downy windows, close; Antony and Cleopatra: V, ii
You would have thought the very windows spake, King Richard II: V, ii
Would have it at the lady hero's chamber-window. Much Ado About Nothing: II, iii

Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, Twelfth Night: IV, ii
Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops King Richard II: V, ii
What lets but one may enter at her window? The Two Gentlemen of Verona: III, i
Visit by night your lady's chamber-window The Two Gentlemen of Verona: III, ii
Under these windows, white and azure laced Cymbeline: II, ii
To climb celestial silvia's chamber-window, The Two Gentlemen of Verona: II, vi

To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Julius Caesar: I, i
To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall, Romeo and Juliet: IV, i
Thy crystal window ope; look out; Cymbeline: V, iv
Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel. All's Well that Ends Well: IV, i
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung, A Midsummer Night's Dream: I, i

Then, window, let day in, and let life out. Romeo and Juliet: III, v
That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes, Timon of Athens: IV, iii
Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window Much Ado About Nothing: IV, i
Talk with a man out at a window! a proper saying! Much Ado About Nothing: IV, i
So thou through windows of thine age shall see Sonnets: III
See where he looks out of the window. The Taming of the Shrew: V, i
See her chamber-window entered, even the night Much Ado About Nothing: III, ii

Priests in the old church-window, sometime like the Much Ado About Nothing: III, iii
Pluck down forms, windows, any thing. Julius Caesar: III, ii
Out at your window betwixt twelve and one? Much Ado About Nothing: IV, i
Monument by a ladder placed against a window, and, Antony and Cleopatra: V, ii
Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life, King Richard III: I, ii
It would not out at windows nor at doors. King John: V, vii
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch: King John: I, i
In at his window; set this up with wax Julius Caesar: I, iii
In several hands, in at his windows throw, Julius Caesar: I, ii
How he her chamber-window will ascend The Two Gentlemen of Verona: III, i

From the window: at last I spied his eyes, and King Henry IV, part II: II, ii
From my own windows torn my household coat, King Richard II: III, i
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes: King Richard III: V, iii
Day into the compassed window,--and, you know, he Toilus and Cressida: I, ii
Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows, Coriolanus: II, i
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? Romeo and Juliet: II, ii
But here comes thurio: now must we to her window, The Two Gentlemen of Verona: IV, ii

Behold the window of my heart, mine eye, Love's Labour's Lost: V, ii
Appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window. Much Ado About Nothing: II, ii
And I a maid at your window, Hamlet: IV, v
window, for all this, there will come a christian Merchant of Venice: II, v
Searching the window for a flint, I found Julius Caesar: II, i
Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, Romeo and Juliet: I, i
Likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window, Much Ado About Nothing: II, ii
Chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good Much Ado About Nothing: III, iii




now that's imagery ... Thank You for this free thought. I might have to come up with a write. Problem is I am in slow mode this am and it isn't likely to pass, for a bit, lol