Highrise-welcomer
I’m an airplane-envelope
rainbow-holder, bird-chamber
wind-route, cloud-churn
lightning-conductor.
Show off turbine’s locus
and weather vane’s point,
I’m a bee-bowl, rain-route
pollen-suspender.
Full of atmospheric dregs
hold your breathable brew,
I rhyme with “my”
on a sunny day I’m blue…
What am I?
© 2016 by Violet Nesdoly (All rights reserved)
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This poem came out of a prompt to write a “kenning” poem. Kennings are riddle-like metaphors used in the Norse sagas (according to NaPoWriMo). In a kenning poem you refer to something in an off-kilter metaphoric rather than by its name. I’v
e made this a riddle poem. Do you know what I’m referring to?
This poem is linked to Poetry Friday, hosted today by Chef Jama at the very tasty Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
Violet Nesdoly 
Oh, funny. I was thinking that the highrise was all of these things. Then I got to ‘on a sunny day I’m blue…’ and thought, ‘Whaaa?’ But read it again, and of course it’s the sky. The rhythm, imagery and word combinations in this are fabulous!
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Clever! You’ve created a wonderful rhythm in this piece with those fabulous hyphenated combinations. Thanks for sharing!
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That ‘all-encompassing’ sky, Violet. Very fun to hear about ‘kenning’ and how you approached it. I like those “atmospheric dregs”.
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You and Donna are on the same wave length with your sky poems. 🙂
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LOVE this! Your metaphor pairs are fabulous — I can’t pick a single one I like best!
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I love the kenning Norse reference and the actual poem, too. We should do an anthology of riddle poems. I have a couple good ones, too. 🙂
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That would be a fun collection to put together, wouldn’t it, Brenda.
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It would. 🙂
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Yup, it was a Fri-sky-day. Hey, that spells “frisky” day! I like it. And I love your poem.
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