March Middleness Challenge

[Piscator]

March Middleness Challenge - intro and comments

As the extended leap February draws to close we look to March with both hope and apprehension and aside from mad hares and college basketball fans, it's pretty bleak. For this challenge write an epic, sub-epic or off-the-cuff piece of trash on whatever aspect of March tickles your fancy.

To add to the intrigue, I'll revive a lapsed tradition where I ask you to send your opus to me by private Message and I'll post them in a separate thread without attribution. Comments on the poems and authorship can be posted on this thread. Near the end of the month. I post the names of the submitters but not what they submitted. Send me a private message with your best guess as to who wrote what and the person with most correct matches gets to be our April Fool and dream up or revive the next challenge.

I'll follow this post with one I wrote several years ago.

 

[Piscator]

This is the thread

to post comments on submissions to March Middleness Submissions thread.

 

[Piscator]

Bump

5 poems in so far, more would be welcomed

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Please! At least a list of who entered!

 

[Piscator]

I was waiting for the Ides but at Annie's request will submit the list of entrants one day early. To date there have been seven submissions from four submitters. In alphabetical order they are

• chubbyTim (welcome newbie),
• Piscator,
• Tzara and
• Under Your Spell.

Although current events and the Seuss Challenge have diverted your muses, more entries are certainly welcome.

 

[Piscator]

Willow

Willows bend
but seldom break
and when they do
sprout again
renewing the cycle.

I have two twigs
rooted remnants
of spring’s evanescent
passage
and ask you
to plant them.

 

[Piscator]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_blackbird#/media/File:Agelaius_phoeniceus_0110_taxo.jpg

Baack!

On the heels of
last week’s ice storm,
the Red-Winged
Blackbirds have returned.

Resplendent males
red epaulets flared
against sleek black feathers
and cold white snow.

Each holding forth,
Lord of his territory
chirping "Okalee"
to stake his
patch of cattails
for when till his
Lady arrives
fashionably late
with warmer weather.

 

[Piscator]

This challenge was swept under by the covis-19 curve but the authors should be acknowledged. Here they are

• chubbyTim (welcome newbie) - #7 Annual Springtime Lapse
• Piscator - #1 March Middleness, #3 grey, #6 Pan's on the Loose
• Tzara #2 haiku, #4 Dempter
• Under Your Spell #5 Daffodils bend their head

Thanks to all for taking part