It’s 4:15, time to leave, to pick up kids who need rides, to services, just like every Tuesday. Starting to shut things down, getting my desk in order; my boss appears at the entrance to my cubicle. “It’s time for your annual review.” Oh really, you never even gave me one last…
Category: poetry
Day 14 — OctWriPoMo — This Place
image link At the earth’s edge there is water, and from water we see the earth. Two elements, united by the wind. Congregated by amorphous clouds is the infinite blueness of the sky. The majesty sets our minds on fire. At sunset is the gleaming brilliance of fire. Red lights the ripples of dark…
Day 12 — OctWriPoMo — Flash Vent
image link This poem is not about roofing materials. I named the poem Flash Vent, then put that in the yahoo image search and this is one of the jpgs that showed up. Since I love copper workmanship and liked the look of the workmanship in the photo I kept it. As you will see…
Day 11 — OctWriPoMo — Fall Haiku
sheets of pink-tinged grey raise walls between the orange orb and our sun-starved eyes yellowed grapefruit leaves — carting them inside where it’s warm saves trees from frost’s kill TPJPhoto.net — excellent photographer!!!!! spoonbills, herons, storks huddle together for warmth — not so much low tide
Day 9 — OctWriPoMo — Believe also The Daily Post Prompt — Believe
image link Believe How does belie become believe? Did it start with your eyes betraying your lies? So it ends with goodbyes. How did I know that your words were just show? Over time, to and fro, sowing seeds that din’t grow. Bring me up, then so low. At the end, you had…
Mindhive
MINDHIVE Thoughts. Where’s your home? Great beehive, honey. Networks of chambers filled with honeycomb gold. Mined sometimes with great care. Sometimes shoveled out, clumped. Drones, unconscious, crawl the comb, vibing veins that must drip on the page; words dripping this way and that. They work tirelessly to empty it. Queen, Great Mother, makes sure drones…
ELASTIC
Elastic Energetic octopi. Latex has its way. A rubber band… Snap! Take as long as you like. Images shift with dark and light. Caramel in the sun. (acrostic form) The Daily Post — Prompts — Elastic
Tao-Talk 