(#Quadrille)
Finding her mask
Invokes painful memories
Of past tasks
Ritual exhausting
Facade always in place
This mask, she throws away
Free to live
Free to forgive
No hint of sadness
Not even a trace
All emotions, freely flitting
Now written
All over her face
Copyright- 2017 Vivian Zems
A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words (excluding the title) which uses the prompted word. In this case the word is “free”. Come and join in the fun!
Smell The Coffee 
September 11, 2017 at 8:20 pm
Again, welcome to Quadrille Monday and dVerse Poets Pub. Pull up a chair at the bar or join a table group. A lovely quadrille indeed. Oh yeah, all the drinks are free!
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September 11, 2017 at 8:22 pm
Wow! What a welcome…thanks!
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September 11, 2017 at 8:21 pm
“Free to live
Free to forgive”
— sans masks. YES. Isn’t that what we all want?
And I love the internal rhyme of mask/tasks here.
The image you’ve chosen to go with your gorgeous piece is just perfect. Welcome to dVerse! So glad you linked up a Quadrille today. Hope you enjoy reading those that others wrote. It’s such a wonderful, welcoming community of poets.
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September 11, 2017 at 8:23 pm
Thanks and I’m real chuffed to be here. Looking forward to good reads 🙂
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September 11, 2017 at 8:25 pm
How liberating, to throw away the mask. We tend to hold on to them, I think. Lovely stuff.
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September 12, 2017 at 11:24 am
Thanks Sarah! Freedom indeed 🙂
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September 11, 2017 at 8:32 pm
Nicely penned quadrille Vivian. Welcome to the pub. Feel free to join in the chat and perhaps direct one of your links for your readers to tonight’s prompt page and leave the other one at the ‘this is us page’ Welcome once again.
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September 12, 2017 at 11:17 am
Thanks Paul! Done and done.
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September 11, 2017 at 8:36 pm
Nice to see you in the pub… and what a wonderful hymn to freedom, how much the masks we wear will bind us… (masks are prison we have locked ourselves)
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September 12, 2017 at 11:18 am
Thanks and happy to join. Excellent minds here. Thanks for the comment 🙂
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September 11, 2017 at 8:47 pm
A beautiful quadrille! Welcome to dVerse — we hope you’ll come by often! Prompts every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday — and plenty of friendly folks to interact with!
I love the illustration you’ve chosen….and the idea of removing the mask…letting it slip…free to live to forgive, and to express emotions.
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September 11, 2017 at 10:01 pm
Hi Lillian! Glad to be here. Bingo on the interpretation 😊
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September 11, 2017 at 9:14 pm
Wow, this put a smile on my face.
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September 11, 2017 at 10:19 pm
Excellent! Thank you 🙂
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September 11, 2017 at 9:28 pm
dope-
a mutual speak of a blurry personality that the persona potrays#introspection
niiice-
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September 11, 2017 at 10:18 pm
Thank you 🙂
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September 13, 2017 at 8:09 pm
you are welcome
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September 11, 2017 at 9:57 pm
A warm welcome to the pub, Vivian! What a liberating quadrille. I particularly love the lines:
‘This mask, she throws away
Free to live
Free to forgive’
and
‘All emotions, freely flitting
Now written
All over her face’.
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September 11, 2017 at 10:18 pm
Hi Kim! Thanks for the warm welcome and comment 🙂
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September 11, 2017 at 10:19 pm
🙂
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September 11, 2017 at 11:22 pm
I liked the sound of “flitting” and “written” associated with her face at the end.
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September 11, 2017 at 11:30 pm
Thank you, Frank 🙂
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September 12, 2017 at 12:02 am
beautiful.
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September 12, 2017 at 12:11 am
Thank you 🙂
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September 12, 2017 at 12:15 am
You describe a tough but worthwhile process. What a great thing to finally claim ones own expression for oneself.
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September 12, 2017 at 11:23 am
Yes! Owning your face- free to express what you like- exactly. Thanks for the comment 🙂
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September 12, 2017 at 1:59 am
Yay! I will be happy to be reading more from you, Vivian. This is beautifully penned. ❤️
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September 12, 2017 at 6:14 am
Hi Maria, thank you 😊- and same here!
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September 12, 2017 at 2:02 am
This is wonderful writing, Vivian. I love the art paired with it.
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September 12, 2017 at 6:12 am
Thank you😊. Glad you enjoyed it!
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September 12, 2017 at 2:09 am
free to forgive – and to whip off the mask to do so is what we should all be doing. Possibly the beginning of true wisdom…
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September 12, 2017 at 6:09 am
Absolutely! Thanks, Margaret 😊
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September 13, 2017 at 1:10 am
Well written. 🙂
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September 13, 2017 at 8:30 am
Thank you 🙂
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September 13, 2017 at 2:30 am
Great to have you in the pub, Vivian. I like how you weave the lines together with rhymes — mask / tasks; live / forgive; place / trace / face — and half-rhymed couplets — place / away; flitting / written. The poem flows as an expressive free verse but at the same time paces forward in a subtle, uncontrived manner. Well thought out with a wise message. Nice work!
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September 13, 2017 at 8:26 am
Thank you Colin! I’m glad I joined the pub. Glad you liked the poem too 🙂
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September 13, 2017 at 1:05 pm
🙂
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September 13, 2017 at 3:07 am
I there is freedom in removing our masks, we all have one of some kind. Freedom is found once we remove the mask I think. Welcome to the pub!
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September 13, 2017 at 8:21 am
Thank you for the warm welcome. I must say, I love this community. Thanks for the comment 🙂
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