Sylvia Plath Snippet Challenge, For the Poet in You! Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi all. YEP - here I go again!  :)

I thought it might be fun to try and use several of Sylvia Plath's Poetry snippets and form a new poem using partial lines from her various poems.

I will supply the lines. You can use them as the beginning of a line or mix them up as long as the snippets remain intact. Good luck!

Here are the snippets you must use in your poem (in any order). Feel free to rhyme or write free verse or any other type of poetry style to your liking!
There are 12 snippets. You must use at least 8.

Cheers and good luck!

~Cleo  :pharoah:

a botanical drawing
Riding the rip tide
your nakedness shadows our safety
The light burns
Under the eyes of the stars
Flowers and bluebirds
a glitter of seas
Contemplating a world
a wave of flickering grass
in a dawn of cornflowers
frail as the halo
Each wedge wears

[Larry]

Sylvia Plath Snippets

Monterey Memories

A glitter of seashells once lined the beach
like swimmers, who were riding the rip tide
onto the sand. The waters could not reach
a wave of flick’ring grass that grew beside

the fragile dunes of sand; for each wedge wears
a crown, frail as the halo ‘round the moon.
Like a botanical drawing that shares
an artist’s mind. The light burns like it’s noon

while I was contemplating a world view
of flowers and bluebirds. Still, ocean’s laid
their tongues upon the coast; an endless queue.
Yet, in a dawn of cornflowers I stayed.

Your nakedness shadows our safety’s shore
under the eyes of stars we can’t ignore.



Snippets used in order of appearance: a glitter of seas, riding the rip-tide, a wave of flickering grass, each wedge wears, frail as a halo, a botanical drawing, the light burns, contemplating a world, flowers and bluebirds, a dawn of cornflowers, your nakedness shadows our safety, under the eye of the stars