Poetry by Robbie Pruitt: February 2013

Monday, February 25, 2013

Wisteria

Wisteria photo from Flickr, by Rick Kimpel,
rkimpeljr, © March 28, 2007

Wisteria

Purple

Wraps around

And intertwines

In gripping love

Adorning

Vine and tree

With Purple

Majesty

© February 21, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

Wisterias, photo from Flickr by formatc1, © May 10, 2008

TweetSpeak’s poetry prompt and musical playlist this February is Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-good Poetry Prompt). This week TweetSpeak Poetry offers Let’s Go Crazy–A Potpourri Purple Poetry Prompt Of Tyrannosaurical Proportions by Seth Haines here.

This poem will also be submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday. To see more poems submitted, please visit the site. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Purple Passion

Love Aura, photo from Flickr by Jsome1

Purple Passion

Grapes are fruits

Of royalty

And we feed on

Grapes in ecstasy

One at a time

Purple as satin

Sheets and silk

Purple Roses

Indicate love

At first sight

Purple hue

Transcends

The bluest night

A purple moon

Returns nightly

In varying shape, shade

And degrees of light

Illuminating slightly

© February 11, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

TweetSpeak’s poetry prompt and musical playlist this February is Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-good Poetry Prompt). This week TweetSpeak Poetry offers The Symbolic Duke And A Purple Play (A Poetry Prompt) by Seth Haines here.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Color Purple

Purple Roses in a Bowl, photo from Flickr by Mason2008

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." –Alice Walker

Color Purple

Alice Walker

Never met a purple shade

That she did not admire

Which did not persuade

Her regard for it would not tire

She stood with God

In fields of purple flower

With beauty that would not cower

Amidst splashes of the finest color

In the countryside assured

© February 11, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

TweetSpeak’s poetry prompt and musical playlist this February is Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-good Poetry Prompt). This week TweetSpeak Poetry offers Purple Plays (An Associative Poetry Prompt) by Seth Haines here.

This poem will also be submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets. To see more poems submitted, please visit the site. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’spoems.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Lydia

Purple photo from Flickr by Lady-Ro

Lydia

Seller of purple

To excess and royalty

Scent of lilac and lavender

Extravagance for all to see

Plum

But not the fruit

And not the color

Plum

Like no other

Indigo

Amidst

Our day-glow

Flowering

With Lavender

And Lilac

We don’t turn back

Maker, seller—Follower

Of purple linen

A sister—Our kin

© February 5, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

“On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home. “If you consider me a believer in the Lord,” she said, “come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.” –Acts 16:13-15

This poem, Lydia, was submitted on TweetSpeak’s poetry prompt on February’s Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-good Poetry Prompt) on TweetSpeak Poetry, offered by Seth Haines here.

This poem will also be submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets. To see more poems submitted, please visit the site. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.