Patchwork poem starting with a line by Linda France

Image: Kim Lewis

The sky’s a cotton whole-cloth quilt
spread ready for embellishment
adding glorious detail of light and shade
with swirls of wild commotion here and there
amid calmer spaces ─ of confrontation spare.
Or darkness rules
in sombre gloom-filled  grey
over the surface, appliqué
relieved from time to time by jewels
of sunrise blaze
or night-time sparkles.

Miz Quickly gives us a rerun of an old prompt, to start with a line by someone else.  She tells us to look around. Read some New-to-us poetry. … to look for a line that captures our imagination (and holds its own).  I had several poetry books for Christmas, and my line is the title poem from a chapbook daughter Sally gave me:   Border Song, with poetry by Linda France and Images by Kim Lewis

This is a favourite prompt for me – last year it resulted in the most read poem
on my blog, “Beauty crowds me till I die”