My mummy’s made curls in my hair
No spray tan for me, my skin’s fair
I’m an English rose
I’ll wear my best clothes
The other girls don’t have a prayer!
The beauty pageant is at three
I apply make up carefully
I’m certain to win
As my Grandma Cyn
Is judging the contest, tee hee!
Image Prompt 2
Categories:
image prompt, beauty, fun,
Form: Limerick
She wears rainbows in her almond curls
and paints her eyelids with green swirls.
Her cheeks blush with innocent pearls
Soft as her favourite fruit- strawberries.
Mascara wand in her fingers casts spells on me
her gaze a flicker between play and mystery.
She tangles the bedsheets,
Spills glitter on pillows,
pouts for the mirror,
practices smiles and chuckles
All a rehearsal for the girl she will never be.
Because
Her cradle is still folded like a promise,
she borrows makeup from bags I never packed.
she wears outfits I never choose,
She twirls in mirrors I never hung.
She is my daughter in dreams.
and in dreams they grow like moonlight.
Categories:
image prompt, child, daughter, dream,
Form: Free verse
Having learnt the art from her mom,
Using hair rollers, the little girl
Wants to enhance her everyday look!
Holding a mirror in one hand,
And a mascara wand in the other,
She wants to give final touch-ups
To her makeup with utmost attention!
Her seriousness in her work,
And satisfaction in her face,
Tell us what she’s all about -
A perfect artisan at work!
Image Prompt # 3
3rd Place
Categories:
image prompt, 5th grade, girl, mom,
Form: Free verse
our vibrant presence dwells in peace
perched atop a dreamy moonbeam
distilling lustre of the sun
that musings from pure heart may stream
before sliding into deep sleep
we choose a role in dreams we shape
contouring our soul’s creation
with the fragrance of love agape
there is no doing that we do
for as we mirror God’s heartbeat
rapture rises, each bliss hue new
in time stretched calm, we feel complete
Image prompt 1
Categories:
image prompt, dream, peace, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain