Haiku

cannot persuade words
notebook went from black to blank
muse turned up absent

Have you checked out the Visual Webster Dictionary Online? Words with images are there. Ah, yes. And tomorrow is another day!

Fractal created in Apophysis.

Prompt by 3WW: persuade, notebook, absent


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Promise

Promise? Cross your heart and hope to die? Stick a needle in your eye?

As a child, I accepted those vows seriously. As a young adult, I learned that promises were offered easily but oftentimes without backbone.

'I never promised you a rose garden' was a song phrase that provided an out for those who deemed it necessary to 'unvow' their promise.

Retrospecting, a hobby that comes easily to me, finds that sometimes I accepted promises that were never uttered - only assumed.

The promise of a spring that follows surely on the heels of a hard, cold winter has so far always manifested but just because it always has is no sign that it always will. The seesaw between cynicism and trust is my inner perpetual motion. And, having said that...

Promise? Cross your heart?...

Promise. The prompt given by Writers Island

Containers

sheaves of inked papers
pieces of life, parts of mind
kinfolk's time capsule

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empty Ziplock bowl
someone sent good food with me
I'm eager for more

Fractal created in Fractal Explorer
Containers, prompt by One Deep Breath
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Widower

From a packet full
of ashen bones,
a genie's jar of juju
he sows tomorrow
in dark shallow mounds
soft as his dead wife's bosom.

Herons dance down the rain
lucky bamboo soars,
he crouches by the river
pens the past in lemon juice
feeds it to the roiling water
buries himself deep in shadow.

Cloudwebs string a silent code
across the humpback moon,
silhouettes withdraw at dawn
he collects unrooted dreams
moils his way upstream.






Sunday Scribblings prompt: Walk
poetry watercolor