Midnight for Totally Optional Prompt

Totally Optional Prompt: Midnight. What might happen at midnight? Besides the date changing, a new day starting, a deal with the devil, the witching hour, a half-moon rising, clocks chiming?

Midnight

midnight passed
with air black and still
lightning roared to life
rode thunder to the earth
shuddering trees shook free
their limbs and leaves
exposed the underside of rot
the sun bent dark to light
and looked upon the world
that midnight lobbed and left


Fractal image created in Fractal Explorer, resized in Irfanview.

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Cycliku for 3Word Wednesday

ThomG, moderator of 3Word Wednesday, offers the following three words for today's prompt: Darkness, Patronize, Weaken





double-down darkness
patronizes tight lipped moon
weakens harbor tide
saltwater hatchlings scratch sand
harbor tide weakens
patronizing tight lipped moon
double-down darkness

NaisaiKu and CYCLIKU! are informative links for this particular poetry form but I use poetic license and alter the rules to suit me and, hopefully, you!

My poetry books North of Summer and South of Winter are currently available at Amazon and, as always, available from my LuluBookstore in print or as download.

Fractal image created in Apophysis.

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B for ABC Wednesday

ABC Wednesday prompts the letter 'B' in Round 5! Thank you!

Even though this might be more properly labeled a 'skull', I'm going to name it 'bones' - poetic license and all, you know.

The family boys who hike through the woods generally find parts and pieces of large animals as well as smaller ones.

I chose to post this picture rather than the one I took of moi wearing these bones.

Don't forget to follow the ABC Wednesday link to see the photos taken by worldwide bloggers. You'll find them Beyond Awesome!

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Poem for Carry On Tuesday

Carry on Tuesday posts: Our prompt this week is a quotation from John Lennon: Love is the flower you've got to let grow.




Love is the Flower

tall and gangly
tattered at the crest
promising nothing
it sticks around

stays in place
a wild stalk
stalwart and true
proud as the rose

blossoms thrust forth
a summer surprise
love is the flower
you've got to let grow





Image is a watercolor/pen and ink bookmark.

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