ephemeral petunia bloom alive for just one day trumpets light into the gloom to brighten along our ways food for honey- and bumble-bees hummingbirds as well colors bright to pull and please botany of desire swells they come as uprights in the ground or waves upon a vine petunias sing without a sound intoxicate like…
Category: poetry
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, July 10th 2019, friendship
laughter and straw hats navigate festival crowds fun weather friends whiskey and ears navigate breakup tears all-weather friends coffee and muffins friends laugh while infants play at their mothers’ feet anything happens feel first, then think of sharing with my best friend a real friend’s advice more precious than gold no pyrite suspected quiet cafe…
Dragon Dance
image link cosmic miscreant, rude carapace embered essence, sandalwood face propelled missile, mystic cannon heaven’s myst there came a dragon. amber magnets fused libido writhing tendons stretched to and fro drunk from Amphictyonis’ flagon lust’s contorted dancing dragons threading clouds with golden linings no firewall could quench their pinings immolation poofed they blackened to ash…
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #94 — diamante form — Truth and Meaning
truth subjective, sincere resonating, touching, influencing searchworthy, integrity, deceptive, disrespectful harming, misleading, alluring sneaky, uncaring lie meaning distillation, gestalt clarifying, understanding, rippling implication, message, bereft, empty unfeeling, lacking, hollowing numb, sociopathic vacant Reena is the host of Reena’s Exploration Challenge. Reena says: You may choose either the picture or the words or…
Carpe Diem #1695 Ice Cream … Troiku
Ice Cream The original haiku, from which the troiku will be composed, is: snow fall in belly adding lusciousness to feast vanilla ice cream © S.D. Tiwari snow fall in belly crystal flakes of delicious appetite’s season adding lusciousness to feast eyes, tongue, throat, belly dominos of yum vanilla ice cream coned challenge of summer…
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, July 3rd 2019, summer love
summer love Summer’s new romance — dove eyes twinkle with desire from endless kisses. Under umbrella, beach shadow creates a cave of hidden fumblings. Summer love, where sand is wet with longing under the big blue sky. School’s out for summer young lovers swoon, toes glisten with honey moon’s kiss. Roses’ sweetness competes with summer’s…
The Oracle — Cake Green Glass
image link Ask for cake green glass but an air pie corduroy soft sail. Fly to bleed breeze’s sad rhythm. In a dirt cup eat the thing work from concrete and fool-dazzle. Self-salt as a tree has to. Bring long breath with old steam on a candy bug dog star. Blue poetry naked porcelain dance…
