Life Lessons – April Ekphrastic Challenge

Beware the serpent who promises everything without demanding anything in return.
He just plays on the ego’s lazy wish to receive without having to earn or learn.
Watch out for the seeping poison that hides behind polished images online.
They are just there to trick you into thinking polished surfaces lead to clouds nine, where everything is always fine.
Think twice before leaping into beliefs that promise salvation and explanation as long as you follow the rules and never question anything.
They just play with your ego’s fear of life’s uncertainties, anything can happen, even if you try to control everything.
Watch your step whenever someone promises a pill or drink or smoke or sniff will make everything fine.
They are only out for your hard earned dime, while you dull your shine and end up in dependency confined.
Keep your wits about you whenever you feel bedazzled and someone tries to sell you something your heart, soul and gut know sounds too good to be true.
They are most likely out trying to put your perspective askew, leaving you feeling stupid, lonely, sad and blue.
Life is never as easy as we wish, sometimes it’s full of hardship and anguish.
Mostly it’s full of hard work, with the occasional perk.
It is also full of moments of happiness and joy, of love, friendships and passions that our souls buoy.
Listen to your instincts, heart and soul, and you’ll find what for you is a worthwhile goal.

©RedCat

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April Ekphrastic Challenge – GloPoWriMo 2021

1 April – Dark Orchid
2 April – A Dirge for the Drowned
3 April – Granddaughters of Red Riding Hood
4 April – Raven Dream Flight
5 April – It’s Spring Time Again and The Sweetest Wine – A Quadrille
6 April – There Once Was A Cat and To All The Good Girls
7 April – Mind Finds Soul Fearlessly Shines
8 April – Trapped, Imprisoned In Her Own Mind – A Triple Triolet and Ode To My Dream Girl
9 April – The Aurora Butterfly – A Sonnet
10 April – The Dawn Sky Is Ethereal Blue – A Triolet
11 April – Blue Forest Of Remembrance
12 April – Incantation to Bau-Gula – A Sonnet
13 April – The Stars Are Out Tonight – A Villanelle and Cat Searching High and Low
14 April – Shadow People Before My Eyes – A Triple Triolet
15 April – Three Times Three Times Three
16 April – Autumn feast – A Sonnet
17 April – In The Badger Sett
18 April – Hellcat
19 April – Life Lessons and No Bother! – A Quadrille
20 April – Fairy Dust Magic – A Trio Of Ovillejo’s and Crows Calling At Night
21 April – Polished Mirror Women – Dedicated to Marisol
22 April – Word Salad and A Beltane Song
23 April – Floating Around Everywhere and Oh Bother! – A Quadrille in Ovillejo Form
24 April – A Thousand Paper Cranes
25 April – Change and Restless Body and Mind
26 April – Through Hell
27 April – Weaving Web and Another Piece Of The Puzzel – A Puente Poem
28 April – Sounds In The Wind – A Puente Poem
29 April – Fire That Burns Away All Fears – A Sonnet and Blackbirds Dusk Sings
30 April – Star Prayer – A Sonnet

John Law

“Am 68. Live in Mexborough. Retired teacher. Artist; musician; poet. Recently included in ‘Viral Verses’ poetry volume. Married. 2 kids; 3 grandkids.”

Jane Cornwell

likes drawing and painting children, animals, landscapes and food. She specialises in watercolour, mixed media, coloured pencil, lino cut and print, textile design. Jane can help you out with adobe indesign for your layout needs, photoshop and adobe illustrator. She graduated with a ba(hons) design from Glasgow School of art, age 20.

She has exhibited with the rsw at the national gallery of Scotland, SSA, Knock Castle Gallery, Glasgow Group, Paisley Art Institute, MacMillan Exhibition at Bonhams, Edinburgh, The House For An Art Lover, Pittenweem Arts Festival, Compass Gallery, The Revive Show, East Linton Art Exhibition and Strathkelvin Annual Art Exhibition.

Her website is: https://www.janecornwell.co.uk/

Kerfe Roig

A resident of New York City, Kerfe Roig enjoys transforming words and images into something new.  Her poetry and art have been featured online by Right Hand Pointing, Silver Birch Press, Yellow Chair Review, The song is…, Pure Haiku, Visual Verse, The Light Ekphrastic, Scribe Base, The Zen Space, and The Wild Word, and published in Ella@100, Incandescent Mind, Pea River Journal, Fiction International: Fool, Noctua Review, The Raw Art Review, and several Nature Inspired anthologies. Follow her explorations on her blogs, https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/  (which she does with her friend Nina), and https://kblog.blog/, and see more of her work on her website http://kerferoig.com/