Castles of Happiness

Melissa Lemay is our host for d’verse “At the Beach with Picasso”

For today’s prompt, let’s take a trip to the beach. Choose one of the paintings that follow. Tell us a story (in poem form) about your day at the beach, through the details of the painting. Think about the shapes and structural qualities Picasso incorporates into his work. Include aspects of shape and form in your poem. Please do share with us which painting you’ve chosen.

Supple tummies poking out and chubby fingers

that manipulate the sand and hold a sailboat

like a sacred vessel to sacrifice to the sea creature.

Their laughter, mixing with the song of the waves.

Proteus, are you these little ones

building castles of happiness?

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In Greek mythology, Proteus was the son of Poseidon, an early prophetic sea God, whom Homer calls “the Old Man in the Sea.” Proteus can foretell the future, but will change his shape to avoid doing so.

A quadrille poem is a specific, short poetic form consisting of exactly 44 words, not including the title.