Heads Or Tails Poem

Heads Or Tails! April 29 TAILS Prompt: Share a special memory

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.




Bookmark by Sue






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HoT Haiku and Fractal

Skittles at Heads or Tails says: Hi everyone! Welcome to week #35 of Heads Or Tails! This week's theme/prompt is: HEADS - Direction (You can also use "direct(s)" or "directing.")

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my bugbear
directions given
by others

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vocal map
no silly backtalk
GPS

**

Fractal by Sue



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Heads or Tails Tip

Heads or Tails prompt: Tip or anything that rhymes with Tip

presents, cards and song
charred candles, ice cream and cake
cheery five-year-old

I have a tip.

The four-year-old turned into a five-year-old on April 10 and celebrated in a timely fashion with minimal family.

On April 13, his celebration included his friends and their parents as well as greater numbers of family.

A 'same-age' buddy asked the birthday boy how old he was and the answer was 'Six.' His friend and I were amazed.

By the time I figured that he was aging a year for each party, I surmised that weary parents could get a jump on celebrations - have two while the mess is in plain sight and skip the following year. That probably won't work.

Ribbon Nest is a digitally altered fractal.

Orion's Mural

banks of clouds
loosen their hold on
spring's murky sky

Flame Nebula tracks
the elliptical of Orion
drawing transient murals

and stellar hieroglyphs
like cyclic history
sketched on rock walls

overhead, chaos of earth
is expressed by string art
in lines of harmony

Fractal created in Apophysis.

Skittles at Heads or Tails offers the word 'Express' for this week's Heads prompt.

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Fools, Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails offers the prompt 'fools' which is appropriate for April 1!

I'm posting a fib, one haiku and a photo:

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prank
brings
bright eyes,
lad's giggle
bugs edgy daddy ~
jocosity sidelined by life


**


first day of April
uncovers our naivete
buried by late snow


**



Honey, I'm home!! is one of my award-winning digital photos!

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Heads or Tails

Heads or Tails prompt: Surprise.

The prompt took me off guard so this post might be a little more personal than usual...the recent month has been a series of personally rewarding surprises.

First. Spring knocked a couple of times but winter kept the door locked. So I didn't have to venture outside to clean up the fallen limbs and winter damage. Ah, a reprieve!

Second. New Verse News and Right Hand Pointing each published one of my poems. Taco Salad at the Lake, a photograph, is on the cover of Travel Post Monthly.

Third. I managed to 'draw a watercolor' on my new Wacom Bamboo Fun. I hope to get better - for sure, I can't get worse. At any rate, it's a whole new ball game and I was sorely in need of a boost. Cabin fever now comes in colors!

Other events, too, added to the month to make it a pleasant and surprising piece of time.

Thanks for reading my back slapping!

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Heads or Tails - Kitchen

Skittles Heads or Tails, hosted this week by Tidbits of Tippets, offers the prompt...March 18 - HEADS - Any part of (or place in) a house

Kitchen

The kitchen is my favorite part of the house. Sound strange for a non-cook?

My computer, printer, scanner, phone and all things digital use all but a slender slice of table. The two comfortable old barstools are made from vinyl coated clothesline fashioned around a slender metal frame. I use one and the other supports a batch of books and binders.

From my seat, I see through the living room window and through the dining room slider to the patio beyond.

I see the neighbor's garage wall, up close, out the kitchen window. Not so neat. I've thought about painting a flower field on it, but so far it's only a thought.

Cupboards that normal people would use for pots and pans hold watercolor supplies, computer CD's, camera paraphernalia, device chargers...and a traveling coffee mug which rarely leaves home.

That's part of my house. I won't tell you about the guest bathtub where plants 'winter' over.

Thanks for visiting!


Original bookmark using pen and ink with watercolor by Turner.

Green

Heads or Tails, the Tuesday meme from Skittles, offers the prompt of green.

A John Deere tractor is green and the following poem is about green.

March

Timid sun before its time
slips across frosty roofs
shines on eager buds
small as withered seed,
a laughing crow circles
drops his shadow
on split fence railing,
tree limbs rocked by breeze
dance with snowdrops
leaving shingled eaves,
sullen green grass
unwilling to be awakened
pouts crisply underfoot.
Spring knocks.

Original Watercolor by Sue.

poetry watercolor

Seven for Skittles

For the list of Seven from Skittles Heads or Tails prompt:


I look outside where the wind blows cold over the remaining layers of snow and see the damage that will need repaired when spring arrives. Somehow, the thought of hardware, chores and repair stays uppermost in my mind.

That being said, here are seven elements of that process.


Repair Ware:
nuts
bolts
screws
nails
washers
caulking gun
braces




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Wrinkles

For Heads or Tails prompt: Wonder or Wander. This piece could probably be considered for either.

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I wish them gone
and yet they stay
to remind me of
those other days

lines deep upon
my face
stitch my skin
as if to sew
memories
firmly to my soul.

If I erased them
from my face
would other memories
take their place?

**

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Pale Paintings

The letter P, is the prompt by Heads and Tails. It seems appropriate to write a Pleiades Poem. I first learned this format in Michelle's Poefusion.

♥
palettes filled with color
painterly fine brushes
pines pure white for models
palm trees inside my mind
patient with dormancy
paradise yearns for spring
palettes pointless in snow
♥

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