It’s a 2-for-1 special this week — the first poem uses five of the prompt words and the second one uses all seven.
Listen Carefully
Some sounds are unique and quite easy to hear
They trigger the senses and memories appear
The rain that accompanies the wet monsoon
Is not drowned out by the noise of afternoon
Hear the crackling of the kindling in the fire
Then comes hot cocoa before our evening retire
Other sounds are subtle or not even heard
It takes imagination to know they occurred
The wind blowing through trees makes a sound
But you may never hear a fig leaf hit the ground
Purple mountains make majestic backdrops
To the near sounds of silence of swaying crops
We all hear the sounds that enter our head
But we must listen carefully to what is not said
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Listen to the Ducky
Listen carefully and if you’re quite lucky
You’ll hear the quack of the rubber ducky
He’s eating cheese puffs and drinking hot cocoa
Look out when he spills it and cries out “oh, oh”
The wet monsoons will wash away his cares
His modesty requires a fig leaf you know where
The kindling started fire will be his feather dryer
And purple mountain majesties will let him fly higher
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This is my response to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Poetry Challenge Prompt #24. The challenge is to write a poem in response to the prompt card that includes at least two of the seven paint chip words or phrases. The prompt phrase is Listen Carefully and the prompt words are: kindling, hot cocoa, monsoon, purple mountain majesties, fig leaf, rubber ducky, and cheese puff.
See more of my Paint Chip Poetry.