Wit: Someone whose mouth runs faster than his brain.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
One-Liner Wednesday — Wit
Autumn Prairie
Whatever comes to cool the air
And make the greenless leaves descend
And make the clouds seem strange up there
I welcome as a smiling friend
Who tucks the prairie in to sleep
And offers dreams for it to keep.
Linked to dVerse Poetics. Kim of Writing in North Norfolk host with the request to write about “one autumnal item”. My item is a photo, “Tree and Grass”, I took last autumn that represents for me the prairie in autumn.
Lake Michigan
The east side of Chicago would be Lake Michigan, the most beautiful side of Chicago which I prefer experiencing from a dry distance since I can’t swim and I have no intention to learn. Hopefully this makes the city itself happy knowing that when I walk along the lakefront I prefer her beautiful arms.
WATER WAVINESS
TEASES ME WITH SUMMER’S HEAT
WINTER’S CHILLY TOUCH
Text: Linked to dVerse Haibun Monday. Bjorn hosts with the theme of “water”. Come join us writing haibun.
Photo: “Chicago from Navy Pier” by the author.
Announcement: Christopher Fielden has accepted my story, “Keeping His Cool”, as Story 62 in Chris’s Colossal Cliche Count Writing Challenge, a 150-word-max humorous flash fiction challenge with the goal of using as many cliches as one can cram into that restricted space and hopefully still writing a readable story.
Looking Down — Community (Collaboration with Revived Writer)
One’s friends are precious, keep them close in heart,
Even though distance can get in the way,
It’s no excuse, these days, to be apart,
Community is needed like the day.
We like to think our choices have been smart.
We like to think there’s always time for play.
Our roads may turn and lead us somewhere new
But nowhere could I see forgetting you.
Text: This is a collaboration poem with Revived Writer. She selected ottava rima with rhyme pattern abababcc as the form. Her part is in bold. It is also part of Jilly’s Casting Bricks October Challenge.
Photo: “Curve in Bridge”. I took this at the Chicago Botanic Garden and I’m linking it to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with theme “Looking Down” and with trablogger’s Mundane Monday.
3rd Halloween Poem Contest – 1st Group Of Submitted Poems
There is still time to enter this Halloween Poem Contest. My poem, Mountain Castle, is in this initial group of poems.
Picture courtesy of: http://preventioncdnndg.org/eco-quartier/eco-tips-for-halloween/
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Let’s Shine – by Melody J. Fisher
Four fat hollow pumpkins
Gutted, carved, and lit
Staring from the steps
Of the porch where they sit
One is very frightful
Another dons a hat
The biggest one is smiling
One resembles a cat
They just sit and watch
As the world passes them by
Making observations
Before they shrivel up and dry
They sit in silent judgement
As a couple bicker and complain
Listen in discomfort
As they cause each other…
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Tyrtle Beach
We made a turtle out of sand
Gathered within reach.
We left these dreams to tease the night.
Morning tossed out brighter light
Returning sand to beach.
Photos: “Tyrtle”, above, and “Tyrtle from Various Perspectives and Afterwards”, below. I am linking these to Frank Jansen’s Tuesday Photo Challenge with the theme of sand. I took the photos at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina.
Cultural Shadows
What we presume is true we have no doubt.
It lies in shadows where it tends to be
Hidden from inspection, not found out.
Beliefs are more like leaves upon a tree.
Light shines and they are prettier to see.
What underlies them, on the other hand,
Stays hidden like the ground on which we stand.
Text: I am linking this to dVerse Meeting the Bar. I will be hosting and the form is Chaucerian stanza or rime royale: seven lines rhyming ababbcc. You are welcome to join us writing a poem in this form.
Photos: “Trees in the Harvest Moon’s Sun”, above, and “Deeper Autumn”, below, by the author.
