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

[Guest__*]

Dear All,

Lori's recent post has Unspired me (spelling deliberate) to write my version of Plath :

A LAST BOUQUET OF DRIED-UP FLOWERS
(Sylvia Plath phrases used : contemplating a world; your nakedness shadows our safety; the light burns; under the eyes of the stars; flowers and bluebirds; a glitter of seas; riding the rip  tide; a botanical drawing; a wave of flickering grass; frail as the halo; in a dawn of cornflowers)


Contemplating a world
without your nakedness,
shadows, our safety goggles,
the light burns under the eyes
of the stars, all flowers and bluebirds,
within a glitter of seas
riding the rip tide.

A botanical drawing of a mandarin,
faced in orange,
hued not dissimilar
to a baboon’s butt,
where each wedge wears
a wave of flickering grass
within my meandering,
frail as the halo
on a Botticelli postcard mind,
I come,
prepared to end it all,
serenely, in a dawn
of cornflowers blue ....

Alan McAlpine Douglas

PS I bet I make as much sense as the originals. I hope I am not treading on the toes of any Plath-lovers (Ted Hughes excepted), but if I am, I wish I could genuinely say I'm sorry ! )