Jacob Maris - The Five Windmills

Happy St Patrick's Day and Spring Equinox to those who celebrate these holidays

"I’m fascinated by her magnetic personality!"
Avian Supermodel
by Scott Shaffer


"Negative media, thoughts assault me"
A Crow Cacophony
by Scott Shaffer


"His crown is pure white, with matching, snowy cowl"
Majestic Encounter
by Scott Shaffer


"Like an angel sent from heaven, she flies out the back door"
Ducklings in Distress
by Scott Shaffer


"Its wings wave gracefully with the wind"
Porch Bird
by Scott Shaffer


"She cavorts under dreary clouds"
Cedar Waxwing
by Scott Shaffer




Carl Skånberg~ Landscape with Windmills

"She calls us to be still, to let ourselves be loved"
Soul Friend
by Marcel Aime Duclos


"Its wings wave gracefully with the wind"
Spring’s First Scents
by Michael Escoubas


"The sun is going down westwards"
The Light of Ages
by Bing Hua


"You see pairs of cardinals and thrill to their singing"
Bird Omens
by Alan Harris


"Then, a ponderous silence"
Gull Gathering
by Gay Williford


"Small moments that catch me unaware"
flowers whisper
by Deborah Stidfole Agarwal 


"It sinks into a lazy, dream-filled slumber"
What Opened, in the Flow
by Yingcai Xu


"Wren flutters in the shrubs"
Fractured Rainbow
by Lenora Rain-Lee Good


"Who will gather the petals blown"
Peach Grove in March
by Bing Hua


"I was left behind and alone"
Wabi Sabi
by W. Wayne Lin




Jens Juel ~ View of Gamborg on Funen

"As if the dawn can rouse the night"
Thoughts in the Night
by Marcel Aime Duclos


"Air will be its own master"
Free to Blow
by Howard Osbourn


"A soul is like that"
You Cannot Hold the Wind
by Sharmagne Leland-St.John


"You cannot track a coyote without knowledge"
An Endless Giveaway
by Lenora Rain-Lee Good


"Free at last from summer’s heat"
But Long Enough
by Cheryl Miller


"The wind is a law unto itself"
Like a Wild Thing
by Vaughn Neeld


"We’ve learned to ride it"
The Wind
by Paulette Demers Turco


"I want to be the wind"
My Friend Had a Stingray
by Michael Simon


Poetry Prompt For April 2026


Charles Collins~ The Black Mill

“As we laughed and ran hand in hand”
Laundry Day 1954
by Sharmagne Leland-St.John


"We see only what the wind does"
What the Wind Reveals
by Michael Escoubas


"Wind-whipped soft"
Sun Drenched Laundry Sails
by Lenora Rain-Lee Good


"Freedom always will remain the dream"
Freedom Calls
by Howard Osborne


"The wind visits each creating mystical shapes"
Laundry Choreography 
by Gay Williford


"Tree tops whip against a leaden sky"
Squall Line
by Vaughn Neeld


"The cloths are flapping, snapping, in the breeze."
Madeleine’s Reverie
by Priscilla Turner Spada


"The Seine rolls rippling by"
Tethered Laundry–1892
by Paulette Demers Turco


"Dancing with a blowing breeze,"
Wind Waves on a Country Landscape
by Elayne Clift


There is no Ekphrastic Prompt for April


Charles Hoguet ~ Landscape with windmills

365 Sonnets: Celebrating Each Day with a “Little Song”
by Paul Buchheit
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas


Poems of Armenia
by Liana Hayrapetyan & Peter Sutton
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater


The Truth on the Tongue
by Geoffrey Heptonstall
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas


In a House of Secret Rooms
by Tom Moran
Reviewed by Michael Escoubas




Alois Tott ~ Dutch Fishing Boat and Windmill

Independently Published
Anthropomorphizing at the Wharf: New Poems
by Colleen McManus Hein


Publisher: Laverne Zabielski and Act of Power Press
Untamed Arabesque: Poems
by Marianne Peel



Alfred Zoff ~ Windmill and Village 

Serve on its be own or in mixed drinks
Homemade Irish Cream
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland St.John


Great way to disguise those extra Easter Eggs! 
Left Over Easter Egg Curry
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St.John



Make this the day before St. Patrick's Day or Easter
Irish Cream Cheese Cake
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St.John



Oldies but Goodies

This sweet and sour dressing is the showstopper on this salad!
Spinach, Bacon and Egg Salad

from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John


Ditch those messy dye kits
Dying Easter Eggs
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John


A favourite appetiser in Irish pubs
Scotch Eggs
from the kitchen of Sharmagne Leland-St. John


 




John Constable ~ Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem

All paintings public domain.


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Claude Monet - Mills at Westzijderveld near Zaandam

 

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Hermann Seeger - Herd of Animals in a Summer Landscape


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