Tanka Tuesday Ekphrastic — Dearest Dorr

© Lisa Fox, Felt Mansion Early mornings I look from my bedroom window, the pond’s still surface a mirror that waits. I walk along the edge. My fingers remember being dirty, planting the urns, again. Aster and marigold, bright in the summer sun, when the world was full of colored perfume. In green brocade, I…

POPO2022 day 19 — b&w earth held with threads

beach ball suspended with homeostatic silk tranquility’s sea beach ball suspended our bounce held in abeyance grace for unworthy homeostasis see-sawing engine of divine running out of gas tranquility’s sea mirage to ease tomorrow’s event horizon

POPO2022 day 18 — butterfly bouquet

butterfly bouquetquadruple rainbows gatheralong floral stems butterfly bouquetunusual convergencebermudan puzzle quad rainbows gathercharisma’s kaleidoscopebobbing with the wind along floral stemssipping straws unfurledsweet garden party

POPO2022 day 17 — dragonflies

sticks live – and they fly is how they maneuver why they’re dubbed dragonfly? sticks live – and they fly rainbow bodies, gossamer wings hunting over fields how they maneuver belies their simple design – except for their eyes they’re dubbed dragonfly sky’s tiny smokeless terrors unlit cigarettes

POPO2022 day 16 — drunken lout

karma comes to play when a bastard goes astray barrel bottom blues karma comes to play in wee hours or bright of day stark silence of fail when one goes astray to a place of no return dingos sniff your trail barrel bottom blues as they rip out your entrails pieces everywhere

POPO2022 day 15 — 2 big 1 small mushroom

in White Chub Kingdom all subjects wear dark brown caps they travel by threes in White Chub Kingdom button babies are nurtured and never sauteed subjects wear brown caps of the finest soft velvet raindrops dance on them they travel by threes having odd conversations about risotto

POPO2022 day 14 — geranium ivy

from green tendrils spring pink petals, umbrella leaves swaying joie de vivre from green tendrils spring nature’s delicate dancer yet surprising strength pink petals; leaves climb spider stems to the sky pulled by sun’s music swaying joie de vivre oblivious of its charm butterfly magnet