Day Three & Pic and a Word #307

Today we were to react to a 4-line stanza by another poet – and look, Patrick has a poem of exactly four lines in his Pic and a Word challenge this week.

Prompt 3: “It’s a Spanish form called a ‘glosa’ – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds to each line of the quatrain, with each of the quatrain’s four lines in turn forming the last line of each stanza. Traditionally, each stanza has ten lines, but don’t feel obligated to hold yourself to that!” 

I had to read this a few times and look at the explanation but then I got it. First, the poem by Pic and a Word host Patrick Jennings:

The ebb
Of tides and life
Reveals the glories concealed
By full flood

Pic and words: Patrick Jennings

And this is my first ever glosa. I never knew this was an international term. One would think Slovenians invented them by the way we were thought them in school.

The ebb and back

The flow
the glow
the mess
the sass
the sudden
the surge
the urgent
the urge
the web
the ebb

of smiles and love
of fights and strife 
of streams and moss
of peaks and loss  
of heat and ices
of bets and dices
of leans and girth
of man and wife
of deaths and birth 
of tides and life

revels on hidden levels
rides the high tides
rustles through thick bustles
rhymes with what finds
ruminates on pearly gates
ruins the perfect states
runs until it’s run its course
rises until it’s time to fall 
conceals the treasures revealed
reveals the glories concealed

by full moon
by tide pools
by pull-downs
by build-ups
by cool jewels
by dull rules
by young fools
by old drools 
by bull blood
by full flood.

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In photos, the Orbetello lagoon 15 minutes from me here in lower Tuscany.

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In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #307: Ebb

The last day in my NaPoWriMo history

2018: My future movie titles with an acrostic

C’mon Already, Live 9. 
Arrested by Tom Cruise from the Sky.
Mercy, Mexi Movie 67.2.nil.
Eccolo! The Day the Carbonara Stood Still.
Rare Pearl Jam MP3 Cassette Show.
Abridged Version of Everything Must Go.

All That She Wants She Doesn’t Do.
Nobody Wants Some, Means Me Too.
Deny. A really short film, part II.

Satan, His Stencils and the Tension.
Hit Me with Your Wisdom Tooth.
Improvise and Then Run, Ruth.
Thursday Portals to The New Dimension. 

2019: Gigi was here   

Later that day
I recall the event to amore.
“Who was it?”
as anxious as I was.
“Gigi D’Alessio.”
 
The scoff,  
the grin,
the eye-roll,
the hand gesture
- all at once -
remove the need
to say anything. (Read it in full.)

2020:

Sunset: vistas, some-
what censored for your senses.
Subset: zealot. Blog. 

Read other crazy orange haikus

2021: Life in 100 words

I wipe a wave of sweat,
remove kale from my pants
(sand! I mean sand!),
and take a deep breath. (Read it all.)

This day in my blogging history

• 2014: In the year 2000, there will be ten states in Europe: Eastern Europe, Western Europe and eight Yugoslavias. —Mladina magazine, 1987

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  2014: I shall never forget the old times III.

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  2014: The memory of February 14th 1984 and the Sarajevo Olympic Games.

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  2015: A lovely story of why the train was early. Only in Italy.

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  2015: Remember Christo? To me this says: Think big. But then do something about it too.

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  2016: Land-escape of Castiglione della Pescaia

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  2017: Spring zen in Rome – stylish but plastic

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