Visual Verse is an ongoing digital anthology that publishes the best poems written within an hour and submitted in response to the image of the month (February’s prompt pictured above). I have written in response to their original and often provoking images for the past two years and always look forward to what their monthly ekphrastic prompts evoke in me.
Images that at first seem difficult to interpret or impossible to explain excite me the most. I love how hunting for find extraordinary in the ordinary or the mundane in the complicated gives birth to prose that is as original as it is creative.
I also love the challenge of writing a piece within an hour, as it pushes me out of my comfort zone. It motivates me to get in touch with my creativity and write a piece that narrates my personal experience with the monthly image.
The following is an excerpt of my poem, Her Photographs, published at Visual Verse
I smell the smoke
Tangy, heavy with the scent of black cherry honey.
I feel the clay
Baked earth shattered over with sunshine.
I taste the salt
Pigmented with saffron and sprinkled over with wine . . . please continue reading here and do feel free to share your beautiful thoughts!