Yesterday’s verse-off photo stimulus drew some beautiful responses.

Sally Odgers contributed:
Imagination coupled
with a careless finger-doodle
brings a chance of forces meeting
as dragons in the sand

Kathryn Apel (my partner in crime, who also took the photo) wrote:
sand sculptures
litter the beach
like jellyfish
cast ashore
in high
tide

Janeen Brian’s response was:
nothing indefinite
about tunnel hole
only the grain dribblings
sand scribblings
creating an address

and Mabel wrote:
‘Is this a doodle
I see before me?’
‘Nay, Hamlet, nay.
Tis but a Collywoggle
Calling its young
to a picnic
on the beach.’

And, hot off the press this morning, Life is A Poem contributed:

Split jewels
seaweed pearls
flaunting undersea treasure
waiting for the tide
to reclasp
into necklaces
that buoy and glint.

And even hotter off the press, Claire sneaked (snuck?) in with:

crabform beads
expelled
onto sea-smooth sand
tunnel refuse
unburied treasure

All beautiful. Thanks, ladies. Come back next Sunday for the final installment in the verse-off series.