Today’s prompt from Laura at Dverse Poets Pub is to write a Novelinee, a nine line stanza with a rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter. Let’s see what I can come up with.
In novelty
a sudden interest overpowers calm
and everywhere I look a present falls
like plums too high to pluck now in my palm
enthralling rubber skin to sweetness calls
excite my senses newness all around
abundance fills my morning breakfast air
the plop of ready fruit, adventure’s sound
what foreign taste awaits for me to dare
once hidden, now the joy in looking found
I finished this poem right on time to go combine my shrubs. I made:
- plum & honey + apple cider vinegar with basil
- plum & agave + balsamic vinegar with sage
For my cocktail I used equal parts rum, the balsamic shrub and tonic water. Sounds weird, but it’s tasty and has a nice bite. Here’s to trying new things! Make your way to the bar and request a sample. 🙂
What a lovely poem! Thank you for sharing, I’ll have to give this form a try.
Maria,
This line absolutely grabbed my senses: “enthralling rubber skin to sweetness calls” — Too perfect in a refreshingly “sense-ational” poem.
pax,
dora
🙂
I would love to have some plums… jam is good to have in winter.
You are welcome to some. I have so many. I’ve lived here fifteen years and this is the first year this tree has offered up more than a few small plums. I just put a bunch in the dehydrator.
Absolutely perfect meter! And I love the topic.
Thank you.
“and everywhere I look a present falls” – I love the optimism of your poem 🙂
Thank you. I’m having a lot of fun with my harvest this year. I just enjoyed my first plum-mint popsicle. Yum!
Ooh sounds delish! 😄
Awesome novalinee. It was new to me, too. You nailed it & I’m particularly impressed with your iambics, which is what I think makes this form sing.
Sing on, Sister.
Thank you. That reminds me to evaluate meter as I revise (a different poem) today.
A delightful celebration of nature’s bounty! And thank you for brining a new drink to the bar 🙂
Poetry and fruit–and food and drinks made from that fruit certainly go together!
The plum shrub is definitely a slow sipper.
😀
a gorgeous juicy fruity novelinee – some lovely lines especially
“like plums too high to pluck now in my palm
enthralling rubber skin to sweetness calls”
p.s. a poetic cocktail too – I love plums and rum and especially so since they rhyme
Thank you.
Terrific, Maria 🙂
<3
David
Thank you.
Good for you! Cheers!