Uncorked

One haiku and one fibonacci for Traveling Thursday prompt: Uncorked



backed up her old brain
with black font and dead tree cells
before the drive failed


she
did
progress
gigabytes
from old gray graphite
but misses nibbling erasers




One White Petal, watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Gallery
poetry watercolor

Fib for an Eclipse

blood
red
Luna
swings across
summer's bruise-black sky
August steps out with an eclipse








Digital Photo taken without a tripod at 2:30AM on August 28, 2007
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poetry watercolor

At the Edge

I.

A shadow understrokes
the open window
rises, crosses glass,
hides tight against the eaves
frees the pane
for southbound sun.

II.

Shuttered eyes screen the truth
I know the end
before you mouth a word.

Original watercolor edited in IrfanView

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An Open Window prompt from Poetry Thursday

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Prey

Talons, wrapped in washable guilt,
snatch prey from ebony nights
blood recedes into the sand
bones hide among the stones
marked by sedge and willow.

Wind wild enough to split a skull
defrocks trees, cracks the fragile
calls the rhyme of empty
smacking stillness to a feeble cry
where the hollow owns no sound.




Poetry Thursday - Last line from April fib began today's post.

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer and post processed in IrfanView.

August Hush

Untouched by knowing
warm silence waits, holds
like amniotic fluid,

stillness bursts, rewrites tempo,
cones fall from distant limbs and
sound misses listening ears.

Breeze crawls in drying leaves,
warm silence waits and holds
untouched by knowing.

Digital Photo by Sue ~ edited in IrfanView.
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End of the Line

chicken marks scratch
a train without a track

scumbled margins
ink no solid trail

behind a flash of lightning
flood saturates the mind

covers literary pearls
and good intentions fade

from a line bound for nowhere

For Poetry Thursday

Fractal designed in Fractal Explorer by Sue

Mars at Large

Flaming forests red at dusk
Death Star, silent as feather steps
chases Luna from the sky
Sol burns the edge of summer

baked pears fall from trees
wither under raven whispers
Fate chants songs
without words

Mt Helicon hugs the muses
who stop between heavens
to rewrite, change nibs
speak of hemlock twigs.





Death Star, original watercolor by Sue Turner (owned by Breanna Combs, Auburn, WA). Other abstracts available at Gallery

For

Granite

honed chisels strip
the glue of guilt
in slivers almond fine

flinders fly while
from a refuge of rock
old loss is planed away

smooth form bestowed ~
like lackluster limbo

Rock Wall original watercolor by Sue

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Going Home Again

thrumming tires
asphalt hot
mark the miles
high beams spear
the double-dark of night

a country house
buttons up two knolls
panes of warmth
drag buried yearning
toward my throat

the Cleavers
suit and dress
children two point five
share a faultless dusk
like I’ve never known

morning’s breaking news
divulges to the dreamer
that private lights
aren’t what
they could have been

Original abstract watercolor: No Return
North of Summer, A Decade of Poetry is available at Lulu Publishing.

For

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.

Poetry Thursday is a great spot to visit and play!

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