Day 27 - Word Selection

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Welcome to Day 27 of Napowrimo and another prompt from the wonderful Carrie Etter. This time, I'm going to be attempting the kind of challenge I love which is using a selection of words. So I'm going to be using prompt 10 from her list and, as a little extra challenge, complete it in as few words as possible while still evoking the images I want to convey (something I know first-hand that Carrie would approve of). So here is the prompt in question:

"10. For a poem that arises out of images, choose five of the following words to use in a poem; you may find it useful to free-write first about the context in which you find them in or the situation of the speaker in this environment: jackdaw, birch, brick, dandelion, nest, pond, frog, stone."

And now for the poem:

Scene From A Train Window

And here - ashen spindle blur of  birch,

              gorse yellow flash 

                                                above 

                    grey stone wall breaking onto - ponds edge.

                            Above - black arcing streak of jackdaw 

diving 

            into

                      straw-gold nest. 

                            Silver wisp - dandelion seed, 

                                                    swept away in our wake.