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Water Daggers: a quadrille

Whimsygizmo host for d’Verse Poets Quadrille #180: Pouring Out Our Poems invites us to pen a poem of exactly 44 words, including some form of the word water.

I’m in a dramatic stormy mood this morning, so I wrote 44 words about sharp, pointy rain.

Water Daggers

Storm | Charcoal sketch on Artic White Watercolour paper | ©️Lesley Scoble

Listen to the wind

Water Daggers

The wind howls around and cleaves;
Stripping branches of their leaves 
Water daggers stab in horizontal strokes 
Chestnuts, willows, elms and oaks  

Hewing boughs apart asunder 
Felling great tree trunks in lightning and thunder 
Strewing striking through the wood 
Uprooting trees where they stood.


Lesley Scoble, July 2023

Thank you Whimsygizmo and d’Verse Poets for your inspiration.

Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright, (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.

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