10:52 a.m. — San Antonio
listening to Paul Simon’s album Graceland — one of my favourites
Hello, all. We seem to think it’s Spring down in this part of Texas. The trees are suddenly green and the birds are going nuts. Clearly, none of them watch the Weather Channel, because the forecast says we freeze tonight. Temperatures are dropping for the next several days. So, let us find our peaceful spot, visually.
Yes, it is image day. Yay! I am posting an image and you may respond to the scene you see but, if you want some fun, find a site with paintings and sift through until you find the painting that makes your insides relax. Post the painting (with attribution) with your poetic response to it.
Whenever I come across the Monet below, I pause and everything in me slows down and relaxes. If I were to pinpoint what affects me, it’s the boat, something about the way it faces, its colour, its bare mast and the still water.
Find your peaceful spot and I look forward to seeing them and reading your poems. The poem does not have to have anything to do with you, or with the painting, but should probably involve peacefulness in some way.
I shall see you Thursday for links and next Tuesday (Hello March) for our next prompt.
Happy writing, all.
Margo Roby: Wordgathering 
pmwanken
23/02/2016 at 11:53 am
Howdy, neighbor!! 🙂
Here’s mine: https://whenwordsescape.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/monet/
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 1:56 pm
Hey, first in!
Sasha A. Palmer
23/02/2016 at 12:13 pm
summer on the water
bare masts pierce the sky
still time
whimsygizmo
23/02/2016 at 12:15 pm
“pierce the sky” — YES.
Sasha A. Palmer
23/02/2016 at 1:57 pm
🙂
P.S. What’s the name of the painting? Just curious.
Hannah Gosselin
24/02/2016 at 7:15 pm
So neat…like the masts are putting a thumb-tack in time…slowing it down for the moment. Beautiful Sasha.
C.C.
24/02/2016 at 9:00 pm
“a thumb-tack in time”–love this comment, Hannah 🙂
C.C.
24/02/2016 at 9:00 pm
If only ‘stilling’ time were possible!!
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:01 pm
It is. It’s a matter of deciding to. That sounds simplistic, but you’d be surprised.
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 1:59 pm
Nice. Haiku suits, Sasha.
whimsygizmo
23/02/2016 at 12:14 pm
Hellooooo.
I always love hearing what you’re listening to, Margo, though I can’t write (or think, really) and listen to music at the same time. (Though I CAN walk and chew gum. Go figure.) 😉
I’m here, and thankful for this slice of peace this morning. Thank you!
https://whimsygizmo.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/like-a-river/
whimsygizmo
23/02/2016 at 12:15 pm
PS: It’s north-wind blustery here in So Nevada today, too, after many days of early spring weather. Happy to need my sweater again. We’ll be sweatING, soon enough.
Misky
23/02/2016 at 4:00 pm
Nor can I. I need quiet. I don’t chew gum, but I can still walk.
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:04 pm
Anytime you need a slice, de.
Sasha A. Palmer
23/02/2016 at 1:49 pm
The Passive Voice posted this quote today:
“The ships hung in the sky, much the way that bricks don’t.”
Douglas Adams
🙂
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 1:58 pm
Perfect.
barbcrary
23/02/2016 at 2:01 pm
Graceland is my all-time favorite album, Margo. I never tire of it.
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:04 pm
I agree, Barbara. I love, love, love his voice.
Misky
23/02/2016 at 3:58 pm
Hello. Here’s mine. https://miskmask.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/in-the-direction-of-heat/
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:04 pm
Hello. On my way.
georgeplace2013
23/02/2016 at 9:02 pm
Hello All
https://georgeplaceblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/conduit-of-his-peace/
I’ll be back to read and comment tomorrow- Goodnight, Sweet dreams.
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:05 pm
I read your comment shortly before going to bed, myself. Very nice.
julespaige
24/02/2016 at 7:20 am
Just a tad strapped for time these days… so it seems.
There is some connection to your theme from this piece I already wrote so that’s what I offer:
Inevitable Silence
margo roby
24/02/2016 at 8:01 am
It’s good to see you, Jules, no matter what. I’ll be back to read, later.
julespaige
24/02/2016 at 12:59 pm
Take your time…
I do a half awake bit in the morning and then again more if I don’t nap while Little Miss does…
Walt Wojtanik
24/02/2016 at 10:17 am
Here’s where I’d rather be…
https://wojisme.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/the-river-is-wide/
barbara_y
24/02/2016 at 1:42 pm
Had to work a bit to find my peaceful spot, but it was a nice day’s work.
https://fredherring.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/peace/
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:17 pm
I’d enjoy the work. It was, of course, serendipitous, the finding.
Hannah Gosselin
24/02/2016 at 4:34 pm
Thank you, Margo…I can see why the boat and water have that effect…thank you for sharing this place.
Here’s my place:
https://wordrustling.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/tracks/
Smiles!
C.C.
24/02/2016 at 8:58 pm
I love trees and any pictures of trees always make me feel peaceful, so that’s the direction I went…..:
https://consciouscacophony.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/family-tree/
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:32 pm
I understand the tree thing. I have a folder full. If an artist can get them right, that is usually what pulls me to a painting.
julespaige
25/02/2016 at 12:50 pm
Margo,
The rain has stopped, but the creek is still rising!
Well at least there is water in the piece, just because you like haibun:
After the Thunderous Rains
(a 99 word haibun)
The music that is spring is trying to erupt. It is evident though
that winter is still holding the reigns of this galloping season.
Just last night we had a tornado warning for our area. Today,
without much sun, bundled, Little Miss and I took the uphill
route around the block. She running most of the way. And I
thinking; good, she’ll have a nice nap after lunch.
Insisting on her standard fair…barely able to finish; cookies
would have to wait wait until she woke up.
prancing toward dreams
barely awake for her food
the child nodded off
©JP/dh
margo roby
25/02/2016 at 2:41 pm
I like the story in the poem, Jules, and love the haiku.
memadtwo
26/02/2016 at 6:46 am
I can never resist Monet.
https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/reverie/
margo roby
26/02/2016 at 10:04 am
Me either.