Melancholy Drizzle – Free Quartine – October 20, 2014

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Georgia

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde

Under a melancholy drizzle
Damp and cloudy thoughts
Tied my rainbow happiness
Into somber dreary knots …

The grass is always greener
Is surely just a tired cliché but
My musings kept going there
As serenity flowed away …

“Where are all these wonderous stars …
Portents for luck and happiness?
Ah – hidden behind the clouds
Under a melancholy drizzle …”

Then with the morning-tide …
Bright chirping of birds began
And just before the dawn of light
The clouds opened and I saw …

A smattering of stars
That lifted me from the gutter
Gone, anger and despair – I hailed
The glorious, bright morning.

Written for Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie using the words from OctPoWriMo’s prompt of October 19.

34 thoughts on “Melancholy Drizzle – Free Quartine – October 20, 2014”

mindlovemisery on October 20, 2014 at 09:10 said:

“The clouds opened and I saw …

A smattering of stars
That lifted me from the gutter
Gone, anger and despair – I hailed
The glorious, bright morning.”

Love! Excellent job Georgia XD

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 07:32 said:
  
  Thanks Yves … I had a great time writing this .. love Oscar Wilde. 🙂
  
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  - mindlovemisery on October 21, 2014 at 07:56 said:
    
    Me too, I read a lot of his plays in high school. My grandmother used to read them together and we’d try to do it with flair lol
    
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    - Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 08:23 said:
      
      A great memory! I used to read his stories to my youngest … among other things 🙂
      
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Pat on October 20, 2014 at 13:13 said:

Wonderful to read and follow the flow – great response to the prompt! 😀

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 07:33 said:
  
  Thanks … I really enjoyed writing this one.
  
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inapumpkins5718 on October 20, 2014 at 14:57 said:

Nice, ma’am. Gonna have to come back and have a look-see at that video.
Morning’s just coming to late now-a-days as winter hankers down.
I surely believe in the shade there was some frost. But the stars were bright at six this morn.

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 07:41 said:
  
  Lucky you … my stars were dimmed (yesterday and today) by low misty clouds … though the day turned out sunny and bright, so might do the same today … glad you dropped in … and remember, we’ll be putting our clocks back in line with nature soon (unless you don’t live under the tyranny of DST) 😉
  
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  - inapumpkins5718 on October 24, 2014 at 17:31 said:
    
    Awe I forgot about foolin’ with the dad bern’ clock.
    We’ve shifted to a six months on, six months off deal. We here changem up Nov. 2.
    
    What a pain. The original plan was to help someone, maybe farmers. But we don’t need it now. Only two states don’t bother, and that’s Arizona and Indiana. But it just messes everybody up for weeks.
    
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    - Bastet on October 24, 2014 at 17:49 said:
      
      I’m not fond DST either .. here they said it was for the factory workers … I agree, it’s a real pain and just mucks stuff up!
      
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    - Bastet on October 24, 2014 at 17:50 said:
      
      Oh and when my sister lived in Indiana, part of the state went DST and the other didn’t … now I call that even more goofy!
      
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      - inapumpkins5718 on October 24, 2014 at 17:58 said:
        
        Yeah, I lived there a tad before the twit split up the state. I read about it and darn near split a seam.
        Glad to be out of there. Gees what stupidity to have two time zones in one state. I guess I could understand the northern parts wantin’ to be on the same time as the big city that was close by. But really?? Somebody was sittin’ on their brains big time that day to allow different towns to decide for themselves. At least that’s what I recall reading. Not sure if any of it got straight or well just went plain ‘south’.
        
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      - Bastet on October 25, 2014 at 06:57 said:
        
        Yeah … democracy taken to the extreme can get silly from time to time …
        
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LauraALord on October 20, 2014 at 17:00 said:

Love this and great response to the prompt!

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 07:43 said:
  
  Thanks laura!
  
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the dune mouse on October 20, 2014 at 18:41 said:

uplifted by your words!!!

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 08:00 said:
  
  Thanks! 🙂
  
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tempestletrope on October 20, 2014 at 18:56 said:

Wonderful combination of prompts. I do love me some Oscar!
http://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/octpowrimo-2014-day-20.html

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 08:03 said:
  
  Ah yes, Oscar is so divine .. love how he writes, he’s a living poet for me!
  
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cshowers on October 20, 2014 at 21:30 said:

I loved this – your word pictures were glorious!

Blessings,
Cheryl

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 08:10 said:
  
  Thanks Cheryl … for your lovely comment and your blessings, which I exchange with you and hope you have a bright day!
  
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Kathy Combs (@KathyCombs16) on October 20, 2014 at 23:42 said:

Love the flow of this. Pure awesome!

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 08:12 said:
  
  Thanks Kathy .. 🙂
  
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Cindy on October 21, 2014 at 06:13 said:

Very nice! 🙂

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 08:14 said:
  
  Thanks Cindy
  
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J on October 21, 2014 at 06:20 said:

What a beautiful response Georgia — and combining prompts, too — you are so talented.
We might not see them — but the stars are always there — hang on to that vision 🙂

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- Bastet on October 21, 2014 at 08:15 said:
  
  Yes … between that certainty and a sense of humor I keep walking along my flowery path 😉
  
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Cheryl-Lynn Roberts on October 21, 2014 at 23:15 said:

What a great poem, cara! That last stanza made me smile, how fitting this is to many who live in their “own” gutter. Thank goodness for nature…Mother is always comforting:)

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- Bastet on October 22, 2014 at 06:54 said:
  
  Thanks Chery-Lynn for the fine comment … thank heavens for Mother … what would we do without her!
  
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  - Cheryl-Lynn Roberts on October 22, 2014 at 07:24 said:
    
    We’d look for another mother figure;)
    
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georgeplace2013 on October 22, 2014 at 01:24 said:

I love that first stanza and then the way you bring the gloom to lightness.

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- Bastet on October 22, 2014 at 07:06 said:
  
  Thanks … I’m really happy you enjoyed the blooming of the poem.
  
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Oliana @Tracesofthesoul on October 24, 2014 at 00:36 said:

I just reread this and these lines struck me this time:
Tied my rainbow happiness
Into somber dreary knots …
How fascinating to see what one sees each time they read something.

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- Bastet on October 24, 2014 at 06:47 said:
  
  I agree … to be fair to the writers we should go back for a second reading .. each visit (if the poem has a minimum of depth) is a new adventure … ah to have the time!
  
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