Capturing Rainbow Butterflies (2020) bokeh photograph by Maria L. Berg
A to Z Challenge
When I went to Sweden as an exchange student at thirteen, I had already been playing piano for eight years. Imagine my surprise to find that their scales had an H note. Mind- warping alternate reality.
half-step the smallest distance possible between two notes
harmony (from dictionary.com)
- any simultaneous combination of tones.
- the simultaneous combination of tones, especially when blended into chords pleasing to the ear; chordal structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- the science of the structure, relations, and practical combination of chords.
NaPoWriMo
Prompt: write a concrete poem
PAD Challenge
Prompt: write an ekphrastic poem
I went to dictionary.com and typed in ekphrastic to explore the word further than my general understanding, and nothing came up, so I took a look at the entry for Ekphrasis on Wikipedia. It didn’t add a lot to my understanding of ekphrastic poetry, but I did like some of the phrases in the description such as: illuminative liveliness and rhetorical vividness. So today, I will attempt to approach liveliness and vividness with my words.
The poem
A Harmony of Rainbow Butterflies
