Three Word Wednesday Poem

Bone, the moderator of Three Word Wednesday says: each week, I post some words. People write things using the words. Then they comment here. Feel free to join in this energetic meme!
These are the current prompt words:
Empty
Highway
Ignored


Tonight, Poetry Super Highway begins its annual free-for-all. For 24 hours you can download free poetry books by some really fine poets. You'll probably recognize some of the names!

♥

I empty April into
the basin of yesterdays
ignore its rapid passing

panic grass dots the highway
a blurred and gray horizon
lures me toward tomorrow

♥

Heads Or Tails Poem

Heads Or Tails! April 29 TAILS Prompt: Share a special memory

After the Saffron Flowers

Drawn toward the land
of wind-polished stone
arroyos breeding rabbit brush
Joshua trees that curl
where hawks knife endless sky
and death is dry and clean.
I place my palm
on alabaster marble,
Buddha belly of
the newborn boy,
watch the desert
brown and cracked
crawl across my hand.




Bookmark by Sue






poetry watercolor

Writers Island Pleiades Poem

Writers Island offers Outrageous as the weekly prompt.

Outrageous. Yes. Outrageous. Okay, I won't get started. I'll sit down, breathe deeply and think of something pleasant. Something not outrageous. It won't be the news. It won't be celebs nor athletes. It won't be government mismanagement, it won't be the cost of medications, it won't be political idiocy nor the greed of the powerful. It won't be the justice system that allows criminals the latitude to kill again. It won't be... Okay, I'm through now. Outrageous. It is. I'm going to take a nap. Maybe when I wake up I'll find all things outrageous were only nightmares or maybe I'll just post a Pleiades poem.

Contest

constant conversation
confusion creeps forward
chaos clashes with form
challenge ignores logic
corrupt acts expand so
cream cannot float and when
courage goes, the split spreads

Fractal by Sue

fractals

One Single Impression Flowering Haiku

One Single Impression says:
Thanks to Rachel Green for this week's prompt, flowering.

♥


dusk blends moon and sun
brushes the low horizon
magenta flowers


♥

fractals

Mad Kane Haiku

MAD Kane says: Now, of course, it’s your turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about temper.

♣

shards of cocktail glass
pierce the palm of his left hand
red gush of anger

♣

fractals

Haiku Friday

Haiku Friday: offers this prompt: Simple Beauty

♥
baby's sonogram

delicate, gentle features

grandmother's delight
♥

This sonogram is the first I've seen in some time - it's hard to believe how detailed they've become since I was involved in 'childing'. The baby girl is scheduled to arrive mid-August and will be the first for her parents and grandmother. Closets bulge with early gifts of love from aunts, uncles and cousins. Simple Beauty!




Fractal by Sue



fractals

Friday 5

Michelle at Poefusion Friday 5 offers: Friday 5 is a collection of five words which can be found each week on this page and inside this post. If you choose to write a poem or story with these words please leave your comment below. This week: splinter, distractions, molder, votive, and punctuate

♠

Crossroads

wide-eyed, she
clutches a single taper

feeding votive flickers
that punctuate early dusk

splinter gray shadows
and offer faint distractions

from the disaster site
marked by mire and molder

she sighs
the candle loses fire

♠

Cabin Fever for Totally Optional Prompts

Totally Optional Prompts says:
Spring has been late this year, and the spring migration's too. Today we got cloudy, cold, snow, and slush. My social life is in a chill too. The challenge this week is the big chill, cold weather, and 'late spring'.

Cabin Fever

Persephone and Demeter prolong
a familial rumble, winter holds the floor

feisty robins feud over worms frozen hard,
green buds turn brittle and days cling to cold

the moon fills twice in the space of a month
drowns Spring who still knocks at the gate

infected with cabin fever she throws shoes
at her door, scribbles gray on virgin white walls

pricks the heads of elderly voodoo dolls
and fires through the roof at mocking crows

Watercolor by Sue




poetry watercolor

3WW Haiku and Fractal

Bone, the moderator of Three Word Wednesday says: each week, I post some words. People write things using the words. Then they comment here. Three words today: Picture, Reflected and Stop

Feel free to join us in this energetic meme!

♥

picture of Mother
reflected in my mirror
brings me to a stop

♥

Manipulated Fractal by Sue

fractals

HoT Haiku and Fractal

Skittles at Heads or Tails says: Hi everyone! Welcome to week #35 of Heads Or Tails! This week's theme/prompt is: HEADS - Direction (You can also use "direct(s)" or "directing.")

**
my bugbear
directions given
by others

**
vocal map
no silly backtalk
GPS

**

Fractal by Sue



fractals

One Single Impression Haiku

This week's One Single Impression prompt of color comes from My Bellavia.

♥

the color of warm
feels vibrant, vivid and bright
cold feels color free

♥

color of words
filled with tinges and tints
brand buds and birds

♥

And an American Sentence:

Warm is a primary color that blossoms rise on tiptoe to reach.

♥

Photoshopped Watercolor by Sue



poetry watercolor

Sunday Scribblings Poem

Sunday Scribblings prompts: Compose. It's a strange word if you look at it, so that is the prompt for this week! It can be used to describe the process of any type of art-making including writing, photography, painting, drawing, singing, etc., etc. It's a big word. What does it bring up for you?

Moved by Wings of Wright

shuttling between good
and somebody's bad
carried by wings that rumble
from sameness and back

where mobius mirrors
false prophets of forever
into a galaxy exploding
over one land imploding

while lights and flames
merge like movie trailers
I'm carried between old stars
and new pinlights of earth

Fractal King of Grim created by Sue

Haiku Friday

For the Haiku Friday meme - lively, fast moving - feel free to join in and play along...

♥

flat-bottomed ducks
shuck silence, shred the day
feather the pool

♥

Watercolor Down from Under by Sue

Mad Kane Haiku

Mad Kane says: It’s your turn. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about health.


temperature rises
age is a higher number
deadline turns to outline




Digital Photo by Sue

Bay Job Wreck for Poefusion Friday 5

Poefusion Friday 5 says: Words this week are made up for your enjoyment. My hope is that everyone will have fun with these words and make up a poem as good as Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. They are: caprussule, mozzle, cack, skrey, glureon. My response follows:

Bay Job Wreck

a distant skrey played mozzle
on the ochre cack at midnight
and poefusion stirred weird tomes
until the height of coming light

old wild and wily caprussule
riffing on the strings of blight
tuned up the maximus glureon
to settle scores before first write

and when all the clefs were cited
not one sharp chimed an E chord flat

Poem for Totally Optional Prompts

Totally Optional Prompts says:
Carl Sandburg wrote about people from time to time. Sometimes historical figures like Lincoln or Billy Sunday, and sometimes a stock character (i.e. waiter, steel worker). This week's challenge is to think of a specific person and write about them.

Campfire Service

Near the cusp
of legal emancipation
they huddle
this summer night
in silent supplication.

Moving shadows
decorate tall pines
cross their tub of beer
mirror a trinity of spirits
wrenched from friends
on recent days.

A central flame
forged to cremate fear
echoes the colors
of their spiked hair,

in that fire’s wispy smoke
they seek bravado
against the somber face
of random death.

3WW Haiku and more

Three Word Wednesday prompts writers with these three words: touching, visible, stage.

**

touching views
visible in a lightbox
Bard's virtual stage

**

Two years of blogging and roughly five hundred posts are behind me.

During this time, I've read of birth, death, pain, fear, love, inspiration, anger, humor, envy, challenge, opinion and words written from around the world. I've seen photos of places I didn't know existed, places I've actually visited and photos of babies, birds, flowers, oceans, pets and more.

Screen names by the score have morphed into writers and photographers I recognize, whose work I enjoy and whose comments on my blog are always valuable and entertaining. Thanks!

Heads or Tails Tip

Heads or Tails prompt: Tip or anything that rhymes with Tip

presents, cards and song
charred candles, ice cream and cake
cheery five-year-old

I have a tip.

The four-year-old turned into a five-year-old on April 10 and celebrated in a timely fashion with minimal family.

On April 13, his celebration included his friends and their parents as well as greater numbers of family.

A 'same-age' buddy asked the birthday boy how old he was and the answer was 'Six.' His friend and I were amazed.

By the time I figured that he was aging a year for each party, I surmised that weary parents could get a jump on celebrations - have two while the mess is in plain sight and skip the following year. That probably won't work.

Ribbon Nest is a digitally altered fractal.

Haiku for One Single Impression

One Single Impression says: Our blogging friend Gautami Tripathy of Delhi, India, suggests the prompt glory for this week.


♥


rainbow circle
haloes misty cloudspun peaks
...iridescent crown


♥


dazzling tones
wrap aircraft shadow
sky jewelry

♥




Fractal created in Fractal Explorer




fractals

Writers Island Flight

Writers Island: This week’s, and the thirtieth prompt is: “Flight”. How does “Flight” lift your imagination? Please share with us where this prompt carries you!

***

They Call the Wind

Moans in the dark of night
beg my soul to join in flight
sing of journeys across the sky
of brushing the Bitterroot high
to ruffle soaring stalwart trees
wrinkling water of lakes and seas
dusting the desolate prairie
and moving the great Mojave
I am the wind, it whistles
and is gone...






Watercolor by Sue


poetry watercolor

Sunday Scribblings Fearless

Sunday Scribblings Fearless is the prompt.

**

BERRIES

her dirt bike kicks up a cloud
powders the ancient cedars
and masks the scent of berries
sunlight mottles the trail

one fat shadow budges
rising to hind legs like a man
snarly grunts and nose a-quiver
stages a standoff on the path

two wheels without reverse
and short of turnaround plot
brake pedal hisses a squeal
pitches it out like an overthrow

the brown bear drops to fours
and waddles into heavy brush
she breathes the sweat of fear
shifts to three, throttles away

Haiku for Friday

Haiku Friday: A Surreal Experience


astride a light beam
cuddled by the dusk of night
ball of earth turns on




Fractal created in Apophysis


fractals

Friday 5

Michelle at Poefusion's Friday 5 offers the following prompt words: aluminum foil, skunk, salt, brittle and Polaroid. These make a story of their own. Feel free to read what others have written and to write your own!

brown streaks of tri tip
clung to the aluminum foil
crumpled and cooling on the deck,
the cagey skunk guarded his prize
while she flung salt on stains
and sprinkled tomato juice
on the whining beagle,
her humor gone brittle
she reached for the Polaroid
to picture proof for the guests
soon to arrive for the cookout

Saturday Night Square

Totally Optional Prompts asks: what sort of inspiration did we find this week? In mythology, or elsewhere?

Tattered hair haloes
an age-pocked head
tendons lie loose
on thin-skinned hands,
his whitewashed eyes
haunt a giggle of girls
wearing faux immortality 
flaunting tight skin 
with come-on strolls 

and
 
      overhead 

Orion, pinned to the night
like an errant butterfly,
hunts lovelies of the Pleaides.

Haiku and Fib for 3 WW

Bone, the moderator for 3 Word Wednesday says: Each week, I post some words. People write things using the words. Then they comment here. And, indeed, that's what happens. This week, the words are Remember, Theatre, Funny. Come play along!

♥

the Ford Theatre
staged a not so funny play
remember that day?

♥

who remembers
the summer of funny skits
Playhouse Theatre

♥

who
could
not like
black and white
funny theatre
maybe those who don't remember

♥

Digital art by Sue


poems and digital photos

Orion's Mural

banks of clouds
loosen their hold on
spring's murky sky

Flame Nebula tracks
the elliptical of Orion
drawing transient murals

and stellar hieroglyphs
like cyclic history
sketched on rock walls

overhead, chaos of earth
is expressed by string art
in lines of harmony

Fractal created in Apophysis.

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the word 'Express' for this week's Heads prompt.

fractals

Haiku Trio

One Single Impression says:
At the suggestion of blogger Noah the Great, we leave you stranded.


♣

plain white paper
beckons for spill of words
wordsmith stranded

♣

white sanctuary
enfolds the spirit inside
origami paper

♣

prison
stone throwers
glass house

♣



Fractal by Sue




fractals

Sand and Silence

Writers Island prompts: On what journey does “Lost Highway” send your imagination? Please share with us where this prompt leads you! Read what others have written and feel free to join in!

roadrunners, rodents
and high hopping hares
silent as the purple dawn
track over and back

cartographers
cruise the desert
fail to chart the spore
marking the mesa's foot

six miles from nowhere
disregarded, unseen
the path clung there
all along





poetry watercolor

Sunday Scribblings Photo

This photo is one of my favorites because I know where it came from, what happened afterward and it still shakes my mind. New technology gives rise to the idea that one can't believe his own eyes. Photo editing software can create whatever the mind can dream.

For example, the upper picture is the initial cropped portion from an original scene. The lower one is the desired portion of the first selection which was then placed on a fractal using the color selection tool to match the fractal color to the boy's shirt.

bliss full
soft as a secret
kitty hug

Not to pretend I'm speedy, this took some great time and many errors but it was well worth it. The fully edited photo was published in I Love Cats Magazine.

Actually, it was one of my first digital photos and one of my first fractals. Sometimes, I think I'm too easily pleased.


South of Winter, Poetry, a new chapbook, is available at Lulu Publishing

Haiku Friday Duo

For Friday Haiku

♥

fists of rain
pummel spring's
first greens

♥

robin tugs
unwrinkles earthworm
...one winner

♥



Digital Photo by Sue



poems and digital photos

Mad Kane Relatives

Mad Kane prompts: relatives...I don't have many, so I took liberties.

heaps of relatives
meet weak mass and energy
her frame is dragging

**
one weary auntie
five young cousins stayed the week
relative six-pack

Energy at the Farmers Market

Michelle at Poefusion Friday 5 offers the prompt words: gasoline, ceiling, hemisphere, avocado, brick.

brick, wood and stone
and tented canvas ceiling

avocados from the grove
tomatoes fresh off the vine

latte stalls, elephant ears
artists sketching by request

right-brain hemisphere
buzzes with creativity

from the distant corner
gasoline generators hum

poetry watercolor

Home Invasion

Totally Optional Prompts for today: Regional Poetry

cuddled by rising forests
the valley floor,

criss-crossed by streams
stippled by glacial lakes,

yields to look-at-me roofs
contrived basalt cascades

ancient pines stockpiled
on Italian marble hearths

panes flash from naked hills
while the moon looks away

Watercolor by Sue...

poetry watercolor

Haiku for 3WW

The Three Word Wednesday prompt by Pia: bounce, mysterious, parallel

After you read what others have written, or before, please feel free to join in this very vibrant meme!


♠


parallel shadows
mysterious bounce of light
crows flash summer sun


♠

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer




fractals

Torrid Zone

Writers Island prompt: Torrid


Torrid Zone: the region of the earth between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn...

somewhere
south of Cancer

mountain peaks rise to
greet the snow, patronise
chamois deserts where
tiny drops of water
vanish in nanoseconds

rainbows stretch
from crystal caverns
through chaos of the dark
hide from sabre makers
of the forceful Sith

somewhere
north of Capricorn

Digital Photo by Sue



poems and digital photos