finest lace
papers windowpane
winter rime
**
chilly sunlight
sneaks through the glass
brightens frost
Digital Photo by Sue
Prompt by One Deep Breath: Frost
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finest lace
papers windowpane
winter rime
**
chilly sunlight
sneaks through the glass
brightens frost
New years by the score
have left me in doubt
as what more to leave out.
I gave up hard spirits,
tobacco and speeding,
soaped out my mouth
and even stopped fibbing.
I once gave up slouching
and dating bad men,
ran from intolerance
to pose on the fence.
I’m not pure lily white
but surely modest and mild.
I’ve come full circle
which is rather odd
so this year I resolve
to resume smokes and gin,
to step up my pace,
and regain ten pounds
while practicing road rage
and lewd finger waves.
I wish you a Great 2008!
This is a re-run. When I get these resolutions exactly right, I'll write a new list...
‘Aging gracefully’
predicts the glossy mag’s theme
and through plastic faces
indulgent seniors beam
and brag of lusty trysts
in distant places.
Clad in a tie-dyed floor-length T,
doubling as dress or nightie,
sans sucks, tucks or peels
I wonder who
let the air out of my arms,
brought my thighs to my knees,
and moved my fanny fat to tummy.
An all-day smile is not my way,
sometimes hateful thoughts
spill blithely from my lips.
Aging gracefully?
I’m just darned grateful
to still have my birth day hips.
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Sunday Scribblings Prompt: Now and Then
An American Sentence using Poefusion's Friday 5 prompt words: gilt, trace, scrivener, parapet, distal.
Near the parapet's distal frame, a monkish scrivener traced old gilt.
on hallowed ground
novices perform
a masquerade of plenty
...pave over local ashes
erect phallic rooflines
fingering the faded sky
...chastise the jaded
flail the weary watchers
with their hackneyed play
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Totally Optional Prompts offered 'Moon Island'...
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An American Sentence...
Curious feline watched gloom eventually yield a drowning shower.
Digital Photo by Sue - Raindrops by IrfanView
Prompt words: curious, eventually and shower...from 3WW
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dancing pine
frees the wren's nest
...empty
***
sun turns gray
fading sky bleaches
into night
***
tiny bird
bastes in shallow bath
...high summer
***
individual
snowflakes piled in the driveway
...look identical
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Prompt: Earth. Writers' Island
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gift giving
cowrie pink colored glasses
...offer illusion
***
heavy rains
final act of spring
ends long drought
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Prompt: Giving. Offered by One Deep Breath Haiku
Into the mirror of hindsight
I squinted toward the past
rapidly edited my errata
squeaky cleaned my life
to reflect memoir bright
...returned to the present
laughed out loud
even with the handy mirror
I didn’t get it precisely right.
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Totally Optional Prompt
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Clumsy chimney chap
his crimson suit sports black holes
...overlooked the fire
Here's a fun music site - pick a mood, pick a decade and see what it picks for you!
3WW Prompt: clumsy, fire, overlooked...where else could I go in seventeen syllables?
Digital photo by Sue
This silly haiku is Tumblewords' post #250
poems and digital photos
cedar boughs inside
lights on strings and jingles warm
~ holiday highlights
***
Each year, my small family notes that things are different. And, indeed they are. My always there parents have passed and other family members have gone on as well.
And each year, a tradition fades away in the scent of cedar boughs and cinnamon. Each year there are new people to fill empty chairs and each year a favorite dish is added by a new cook.
Each year, other traditions are established. And when the following season appears, it is again noted that things just aren't the same.
Each season is, in its own way, different but gratitude remains a constant.
I wish each of you all possible good!
lacy cedar boughs
cradle winter's unwrapped gift
~~coat of snowy white
**
pocket of snow
hugs last stem of lavendar
~~summer forgot
**
icicles hang
capturing rainbows
~~solar power
Digital Photo by Sue
Prompt by One Deep Breath
poetry and photos
Sweet scent of sunlight
dances tango on my hip,
dapples spun by curdled clouds
tattoo my croning feet.
Behind a flimsy veil
Cassandra sings eternity.
I turn my back
glide deeper into dance.
in those deadly days
the gatekeeper of vaults
squeaked out bytes
from his rusty hinge
..sad tales that echoed
once and again in
upward swells
whispered from shells
..of each missing conch
adrift in Poseidon's salt
The Poefusion Prompt: hinge, bite, conch, gatekeeper, Charybdis with the and/or theme of Only Once.
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somewhere west
of Perseus
starlight reshapes
cosmic crests
and Eagle nests
in a cloud of gas
against the crystal
double-dark of night
pillars of dust
far hotter than fire
guard a new measure
of infinite stars ...
the cool moon hums
an arabesque lullaby
against tides
of the incoming dawn
Fractal Created in Apophysis ~ I Heart the Hubble
'Birds and Bonds' Prompt from Totally Optional Prompts
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3Word Wednesday Prompt: closing, virtual, headlights
Various moments surface when prompted but the process of weeding yields several lighter ones while the heavy ones return to the deep.
Many dreams have come and gone because I'm far too flexible and interested in so many things that the average life isn't long enough to encompass them all.
That being said...the moment arrived a decade ago when I formed a new dream because I discovered that most of my dreams had already come to pass (remember, I'm an adjustable dreamer).
When that moment arrives, I'll begin seeking new dreams.
much above the full moat
max at piano grand
marked moshers held at bay
munched notorious meal~
mellow Chicago Dog ~
moved elastic fingers
mustard fell on flat keys
A Pleaides form from prompt words at Poefusion: moat, piano, notorious, mustard, elastic
AND another try --
far above the palace moat
he sat on the piano bench
waved down to
groupies held at bay
pushing up the elastic
on his sleeves, he nimbled
fingers of his left hand
gnawed the notorious
Chicago Dog in his right
warmed up his scales
oblivious to the mustard
dripping on the flats
I came upon a highway sign,
deep within the desert
in terrain of sand and dry.
Proclaimed it: 'Coyote Wash'.
Who puts the quarters in,
sprays on soap and turtle wax?
Who checks to see, behind the ears,
if all is clean and rightly dried?
Watercolor by Sue
Prompt by Totally Optional Prompts: Signs
poetry watercolor
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!
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Prompt by 3WW: persuade, notebook, absent
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Promise. The prompt given by Writers Island
sheaves of inked papers
pieces of life, parts of mind
kinfolk's time capsule
**
empty Ziplock bowl
someone sent good food with me
I'm eager for more
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Containers, prompt by One Deep Breath
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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
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She brays with unfelt laughter
cold facets of glass gleam
ice cubes crash and splinter
the glass he holds is not so brittle
his face pre-marked by patient caring
and between them sits the dog
a small black balance beam
Wild words skid
amid lucky bamboo
call the cry of scars
paddle down the moon
bereft of useful mojo
sundry recent dead
sidestep history's debt.
One mad zebra
kicks a bird of paradise,
swears the past was true.
Watercolor by Sue
For Totally Optional Prompts
poetry watercolor
cigarette smoke curls
on the black night
etching white lines
like dim serpentine braids
flung from distant Medusa
~~he squints into the telescope
for that single eye sight
afforded only by a desert sky
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3 Word Wednesday Prompt words: cigarette, afford, dim