Category: poetry

RWG 11 — For my uncle, shot down over the North Sea in WWII

North Sea When you heard whistles, yells, and felt the shells pierce the wings and hull, what did you wonder as parachute’s grace rocked you towards inevitable clash with Northern Sea’s finishing freeze splash? Did you embrace chivalrous? Macho? Scared? Maybe yours were no confident, steeled, screaming lips. Maybe relief gave your imminent non-being a…

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dVerse — Poetics — Shadowed

“Portrait of Sylvia Schou” (1911) painted by Thorvald Hellesen (1888 – 1937) Shadowed with dark cloud suspicion In weighted hues of benefit Surreptitious and forbidden Shadowed with dark cloud suspicion Repeat offense? First commission? One cost of social tarriffing Shadowed with dark cloud suspicion In weighted hues of benefit triolet form Lillian is today’s host…

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Tanka Tuesday 321 — Conjure

Contemplate and balance intention Open light harmony’s attentionNightingale will sing the tale at dawnJuxtaposed against moon sky madnessUndulating pink ribbons go forthReaching, reaching, until gentle touchEnergizes the willing target top image is of Kiki from the anime film, “Kiki’s Delivery Service.” Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday.  Colleen says:Write an acrostic poem with…

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dVerse — Haibun Monday — childhood recollections

  “A Cottage Garden,” by Henry Sutton Grandpa and Grandma lived at the bottom of a hill where three dirt roads converged. Their home had been Grandpa’s parents and cobbled together from a number of summer cottages that had been along Mxxx Lake and moved a mile or so around the 1940’s to its acre…

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Kerfe’s RWG 10 — Unused Beach

Slip of unraveled rope still flaps and whips, a fluffy snake pain marker; company in leprous shade. I avoid this place of sacrifice but miss your attention; on impulse I’ve dressed my ravaged face, Fascinated in morbid fashion at its folded and patted ratty clam, and make my way to unused beach. Half-buried wreck juts…

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