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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and Barnes and Noble Nook

 

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