Path for Magpie Tales #149

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt shown below.

butt catcher

breadcrumbs of pathway

grim reaper

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Building Night for Sunday Whirl

Thanks, Brenda, for the Sunday Whirl #89 Wordle

brooding stars

broke night's edge

delivered little points of flame

along the icy creek

against the dark

tangents popped

delivered little points of flame

across the murky sky

rustling leaves

tumbled over snow

delivered little points of flame

kneaded ice, moved on

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Holidays

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Unfolding for The Sunday Whirl #87

Thanks, Brenda, for this Wordle prompt...

a sigh unfolds the night

the milky moon

grows glassy with chill

unseen rain listens

to the rush of dry leaves

tumbling in its wake

no visible sign

promises a tomorrow

as night replaces day

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Headlines Parrot Night Tales

Ominous as storm clouds
coupling in the dark
shadows swoop
across the Wolf Moon face,

ravens fall from grace to ground
beat at window glass
rasp the wooden sill
rip shingled roof to shreds.

My Daddy always said
crowded creatures go mad
and humans likely will
as their numbers cross the bar.

Forests fill with people
clearing trees and game
life breeds Hitchcock scenes
mirrored in daily news.

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Tracing for MagpieTales #147

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt!

tracing skin

  cartographer names

  warming climes 

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Space for Sunday Whirl #86

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

a tiny space

a place to hang a hat

or to peg a pace

bereft of light

double dark as night

relentless with twitch

til her mind takes flight

rejects the bland

she coasts far out of head

relentless and free

til time brings her back

to her small place

the space to hang her hat

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #85

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

somewhere back there

ancient trunks hover

above forlorn trails  

masking tiny forks

a desire to fuse

drives the manic

to seek a better space

a clash of time

sweeps the sand

before it resets the tide

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #146

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for prompt... 

Object to be Destroyed by Man Ray

single chord 

porthole of measure 

key of see

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Missing for Magpie Tales #145

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt.

Wallpaper ID: 468927

afterward

ghosts returned to play

time went on

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Movie for Sunday Whirl #84

Thanks, Brenda, for the Sunday Wordle Prompt.

Movie

held within

the scent of night
flecks of stillness 
sway fine sight 
skim the eye 
to fill the end of light 
and load the dark 
with a gift of scenes

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #144

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt below:

Squall, 1986, by Andrew Wyeth

nor'easters

squall with rain and blow

hang nails drip

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Senryu for Sunday Whirl #83

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

under fire

facades of beauty

silent pawns

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Sorry, I couldn't belong. 

There were too many wrong words 

for my unfindable muse

and a busted life ~

but without pride, 

I played a short senryu anyhoo! 

Unless.

♥ and smiles

Senryu for Magpie Tales #141

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

weathering

this man, this woman

an island

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Mars and Venus for Sunday Whirl #80

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt.

far across the sky

women linked

by a single thread

and bound by wary wiles

powered shifts within the we

against splits with men

damaged along the way

curses and blathers on

that single thread is cut

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Night for Magpie Tales #139

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for this image prompt!

Midnight Snack, 1984, by Curtis Wilson Cost

watchful eyes

expose night's devil

the pie sneak

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Umbrella for Sunday Whirl #78

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt!

a child of the dark

she inherited thunder

on the right side of light

an umbrella of gold

was her excuse to stand

and to join the deep shift

a child of the dark

she vowed to become ruler

of the light side of night

As always, these are quick writes before viewing others' work. And it's amazing how much similarity  and how many differences can be found at the Sunday Whirl entries! 

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Vapors for Magpie Tales #138

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the prompt image!

Sick Woman, 1665, by Jan Steen

thready pulse

stilled by sudden chills

fall vapors

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Fall for Sunday Whirl #77

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

brittle frost broke the fever

fetched by heated sheaths

of summer borne dog days

crusty rustles from the north

trapped the charming willows

without an upfront warning     

the unbearable piercing breeze

exploded and could not mend

those shattered hearts of autumn

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Uri for Magpie Tales #137

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

It Must Be Time For Lunch Now, 1979, by Francesca Woodman

shape shifting  

a geller delight

recharging

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Holy for Sunday Whirl #76

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt!

the ambivalence of holy

hovers in a dazed state

while incense breathes fear

and flaps empty prayers

at souls who scurry to

seek a soupcon of tenderness

and a thimble full of water

the ambivalence of holy

becomes empty of essence

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Mosaic for Magpie Tales #136

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for this delightful image prompt.

Flying Down, 2006, by David Salle

mosaic

benoit in free fall

chaos reigns

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Maze for Sunday Whirl

Thanks, Brenda, for the Sunday Whirl!

Ah Maze

storm bolts shook the damp

trapped corners into folds

brought remaining climbers

bundled up and watered

the ash hurtled down

when on that all saint's eve

storm bolts shook the husks

dried and set ablaze 

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Senryu for Magpie Tales #135

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for this delightful image prompt!

Venus and The Sailor, 1925, by Salvador Dali 

doo wop bop

mostly in this life

don't dally                 

 

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Artist for Sunday Whirl #74

Thanks, Brenda and Walt, for a fine Sunday wordle prompt!

artists

curtain call

rocking the runway

sensuous saunters

tangled tresses swing

in tune with lilting lyrics

struts in catlike silence

exterior clad in rich color

while peering paparazzi

sigh silhouetted alliteration

darkly daring 

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Food for Magpie Tales #134

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for providing the prompt image!

Breakfast, 1921, Fernand Leger

sculpted eggs

scarves of charred bacon

solid brunch

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Storm for Sunday Whirl #73

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle Prompt!

once upon a rugged morning

out of a remote meadow

where splendor shook its grace

and thunder rolled a blessing

a deep shadow with an attitude

rolled down the ridge

across the marble markers

across the backs of silent cows

across the fierce warriors

suffering took a second seat

to that shadow with an attitude

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Wine for Magpie Tales #133

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt!

Summer Night, 1913, by Albert Bloch

redwhiteblue

lofty mountain soles

valley grapes

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Cloud 9 for The Sunday Whirl

Thanks, Brenda, for the Wordle prompt!

once upon a time

that number showed up missing

smooth and white

refreshed but with a trace of wild

a cloud by any name

its final gear bared

by last year's hasty shift

no evidence, no notice

once upon a time

cloud nine went missing

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Still for Magpie Tales #132

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for this image prompt.

Big Room, 1948, by Andrew Wyeth

ticktocktick

thrusts a cold silence

hearth to heart

 

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Whimsy for Sunday Whirl #71

Thanks, Brenda, for this new Wordle Prompt

recipe in hand

whimsy crossed the fence

a pencil swung upon a chain

before the linking came

at dusk, an empty vial

opened to receive rose attar

its essential trace so vital

for soothing the unforgiven

whimsy crossed the fence

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Checking for Magpie Tales #131

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the following image prompt!

Under Windsor Bridge, 1912, by Adolphe Valette

checking cracks  

infra-sculptor's work

evermore

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Imagine for Sunday Whirl #70

Thank you, Brenda, for the Sunday Whirl Wordle Prompt!

imagine when

a vivid prelude,

insidiously tinted,

affixed a tinny tip

at the nick of a gentle limb

til with a swelling wave

and a slight wayward drift

the mabe split became hard fact 

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Over for Magpie Tales #129

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

A Dinner Table at Night, 1884, John Singer Sargent

closing up

a retracting rose

final port

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Night for Sunday Whirl #68

Thanks, Brenda, for the wordle prompt!

at the deck's pitched stern

links held the port anchor tight

moon shade sneaked on board

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Alpha for Magpie Tales #128

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the image prompt!

 

image by Zelko Nedic

shadows breed

the dark night rises

...alphas bond

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #66

Thanks, Brenda, for this delicious wordle prompt...

far less erotic

and far more melancholy

than the rosy golden swing

she imagined in her nights

~ that stray fling in tall grass

calls for a pale cover,

a powdering of ash and

a forget-me-now spray

a warning to be tucked behind

like an old judgment stick

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Rune for Magpie Tales #127

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt!

Figure Eight, 1952, by Franz Kline

a lost rune

sprayed upon stucco

mobius

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Vettriano for Magpie Tales #126

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for the following image prompt!

artwork by Jack Vettriano

smoke eddied

in the last sun's ray 

curtain call

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Food Chain for Sunday Whirl #65

Thanks, Brenda, for another fun and wild wordle prompt!

food chain

his trigger finger plants

a spray of grittled seed

that drops like flicks of hail

another crack of  kernels

swells the row with future

relishing his old refrain

he claims humility

with the gravity of pluck

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Chilmark Mantra for Magpie Tales #125

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for this image prompt...

Chilmark Hay, 1951 by Thomas Hart Benton

golden yield

cast in rustic scene

his mantra

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Ball of Time for Sunday Whirl #64

Thanks for the Wordle prompt #64, Brenda!

drawers of eternity

stacked one upon the other

stung by ignorance

spurned by rinds of soul

years of months

subtracted by

faith-full housewives

and carved into

pieces small enough

to fall unnoticed

with the dropping ball of time

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Center for Magpie Tales #124

Thanks to Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales for the following image prompt.

Ophelia by Odilon Redon

blossoming

inside the outer

spring mantle 

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Sent for Sunday Whirl #63

Thanks, Brenda, for this week's Wordle prompt!

SENT

like a layout

of Tarot cards

tableau'd in reverse

snapshots curl

under her thin touch

old acts easily hung

by one upon the other

in utter silence

when gestures of pain

stood between their skin

their lips soon pursed

with done 

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Evil for Magpie Tales #123

Thanks to Tess Kincaid for her weekly image prompts...

black and white

touches of evil     

real to reel

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Poem for Sunday Whirl #62

Thanks, Brenda, for the Sunday prompt.


Ghosting Smoke

the scent of jasmine unfurls,

whistles down old demons

voodoo traps those ample flaws

set free in her domain

and from a rear window

she spots the ghostly montage

where a flameless sunset burns

through the smoke of jasmine

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 The wordles:

 jasmine, granite, whistle, demons, domain, scrap, ample, trapped, montage, flawed, window, sunset 

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Runaway for Sunday Whirl #61

Thanks, Brenda, for the Sunday Whirl Prompt.

Runaway

drafting on the wings

of a discontented current

one day of exile

sundered free of cracks

from unbound tempers

or the trace of racket

early leaves dapple

shadow-bright

to waft across her face

echoing today's peace

the latch string of song

opens its spare refrain

soothes tomorrow's fears

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Kabuki for Magpie Tales #122

Thanks, Tess Kincaid, for the image prompt!

Puddle, 1952, M. C. Escher

Kabuki 

Cedar saplings
precise as tinkers toys
stretch from root strings
toward denim-tinted sky.

Satellites skip cracks of time
track in and out
compound chaos of the stars
light the way for nacred moons.

The chamber of tomorrow
waits on a groove of air
where stairs like Escher's
carry all that disappears.

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This poem was first published in 2007.

My novel, Running with Scissors, is available

as print or PDF at Lulu Publishing and in e-book format at iTunes

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