Spring

Spring

Cream-tinted
blossom filigree
a wedding
a party
line dancing with the breeze, I’m
caught under spring’s veil.

- Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Wild ride

Surfer at Ho'okipa Beach Park

Wild ride

Crouch, stand tall
mount the curling foam
up and down
in and out
for the wild ride back to shore
any wave will do

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Stalk

Surfers lying in wait - Ho'okipa Beach Park

Stalk

Surfboards poised
eyes scan restless sea
calculate
curl and height
Maui surfers float and drift
stalking the big one

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Voyeurs

Snorkelers in Honolua Bay

Voyeurs

Snorkelers
watch another world
lazy drift
gill, fin, tail
turquoise Honolua Bay
maritime voyeurs

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Winter flora

If Hawaii blooms like this in winter, what must it look like in spring and summer?

Winter flora

Orchid leis
Birds of Paradise
Hibiscus
Butterfly
Plumeria—Maui’s blooms
make us long for spring

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Neighbours

Some of the birds of Maui

Neighbours

Cardinals
cattle Egrets graze
Sandpipers
Myna birds
Neck-spotted and Zebra doves
cooing night and day.

© 2012 by Violet Nesdoly

Maui Scrapbook – Newbies

Me - with my winter-white skin

Newbies

Friday night
newcomers, pale-skinned
crowd store aisles
shopping for
week ahead in Maui sun
Monday they’ll be tanned

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We recently returned from a two-week holiday on Maui. What a treat! I had never been to any of the Hawaiian islands before, so everything was novel and new.

I took lots of photos and decided to combine those with shadorma poems to make a  photo-poetry album of Maui memories.

Withdrawal

Withdrawal

White journals
empty calendars
all quiet
bland, proper
house January sober.
I need chocolate!

© January 2012, by Violet Nesdoly

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This poem started out trying to be about something new, as inspired by Adele Kenny’s Happy New Year prompt. But it insisted on whining and begging, so I let it.

Mid-sixties

Mid-Sixties

“Don’t be sharp or flat, just be natural” – Willie Stargell

pleated skirt
Everly Brothers
Brylcreem hair
angora
your message in my yearbook
…such a clever line

© 2011 by Violet Nesdoly

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In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, I’ve challenged myself to write one poem a day this November.

I’m using a variety of prompts for that:
- Poetic Asides (where Robert Brewer posts one a day through November with the invite to enter your best collection in his chapbook challenge).
- Adele Kenny’s blog
- Poets and Writers prompts
- Poets Online Archive … and others

With permission from art-makers like David Bayles and Ted Orland (“The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars,”) I will proceed with realism.

I’ve decided to share some of my pieces here. The poem above is my poem for November 2nd, inspired by Robert Brewer’s prompt for November 2nd: “For today’s prompt, use an epigraph to kickstart your poem.“

B.C. Children’s Hospital

B.C. Children’s Hospital

i
Patio
plants pale as the kids
in blue gowns
I.V. poles
too empathetic or sad
to bloom loud and bright.

ii
Cut-out words
on the dividers
trellis-hung
pastel hopes:
DREAM, FAMILY, FRIENDS, HOME, SMILE
but most of all LIVE.

© 2011 by Violet Nesdoly (all rights reserved)