image link A train, snaking through terrain Carried passengers along this day Hailing from many paths on the way Stopping for passengers and cargo The travelers got out, stretched so Regarded landscape to and fro “An artist’s retreat would be perfect for this place!,” spoke the painter and commune dweller. “That forest would provide wood…
Category: poetry
OctPoWriMo2019 — Day 8 — October Days and Nights
Molding leaves merge with pungent pumpkin pulp Cider mists waft with cloves and cinnamon Crackling smoke rises white in light grey sky Time of decay and honoring the dead Indian summer makes pumpkins grow fat Molding leaves merge with pungent pumpkin pulp Hayrides, haunted trails, children’s piercing squeals Roasted corn, bobbing for apples in…
dVerse — portrait — amber eyes
Timeless visions fill amber eyes Granddad’s mule found in the gulley Hacked to pieces, jealous neighbor “Coyotes done it.” No charges. Arms held fast; thrusts, ugly grunts Timeless visions fill amber eyes Stripped, pummeled, defiled, threatened ”They had alibis.” No charges. Husband dragged away in handcuffs “She said he broke in and raped her.”…
OctPoWriMo2019 — Day 7 — speaking in (mature audiences only)
Tantalizing tongues test us terribly to totter from truth, tumbling into torrential tastes that in time will taunt. Languid laps of luxurious liquid lines lingering lusciously on your lovely lips; then la-la-la-la-la-la! Wagging waddlers wander wickedly willing wanderlust wilting woestricken ones, who wonder why. Morgan Dragonwillow is the host…
dVerse — set — brooder
burnished fluff above cream and white sets on fashioned straw bright amber eyes under textured soft red tilt, watch, and wait doughy hand curls around, lifts, tosses henkibble. squawk! instant ejection, propulsion, gobbling, distracted, reveals six oval promises — promises that will soon be kept I remember the few years we kept chickens….
Haikai Challenge #107 — red leaves (momiji)
image courtesy of Wikipedia Cold days hug cold nights Fire drains from earth and sky Inhaled by autumn leaves Rosy-cheeked maples whisper Secrets to tall browning oak Frank is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: Write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) that alludes to…
OctPoWriMo2019 Day 6 — blue — your eyes
Your Eyes mesmerizing as a snake’s cool as first ice on the pond distant as atmosphere near outer space blank as a huskie’s warm as a summer lake hot as a smiling cowboy’s cold as an arctic fox’s clinical as an animal researcher’s inviting as pie frightening as hitchcock’s shower scene’s frightened as hitchcock’s shower…
