Prompt #3 from Robert Brewer @ Writer's Digest poem-a-day challenge
For today's prompt, pick a musical act or artist
and either make that the title of your poem
or incorporate into the title of your poem; then, write your poem.
Its splendor captures hearts and souls
In arrangements that spill
Through gullies, between hills and knolls
It runs its foaming drill
It thunders through the wilderness
And eddies into bays
Above its cascade, mists caress
Its roiling interplays
It performs without preference
As masterpieces grand
Roll without mortal audience
Through untamed timberland
A lyrist that commands respect
The lure of its appeal
As ageless as its dialect
Of silver, sage and teal
It serenades the fisherman
That navigates its stream
And sparkles like a sequin-fan
Where sunbeams waltz and gleam
It glides, as tame as nameless reeds
Idling along its shores
It clashes where two courses feed
Into one vein, it roars
…and frets and moans and froths and fumes
Until its ire is spent
To slide beneath the willow plumes
That strum its moody bent
Mingling of danger and delight
Of unbridled romance
Heeding a Maestro veiled from sight
Save in the river’s dance
It dips and dives, leaps, jives and falls
Liquid arpeggio
Of promenades and madrigals
That always steal the show
© Janet Martin
Isa.43:1-3
Now this is what the LORD says—
He who created you, O Jacob,
and He who formed you, O Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
2When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you go through the rivers,
they will not overwhelm you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be scorched;
the flames will not set you ablaze.
3For I am the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;...
