Frank Hubeny

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

I just watered the plants and those geese, those many geese, look well fed and merry.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge where the prompt is “eat, drink and be merry”.

Rain

Only heroes blessed with pain
Continue searching through the rain
For their loved ones lost somewhere
Finding rest on gifts of prayer.

Best of all the search is slow.
The other must decide to show
And meet him in that pouring rain
Where they may reconcile again.

Linked to dVerse Poetics. Amaya hosts and the prompt is to write a poem inspired by “a piece of music that has made you shed tears” . I am sure all of us have many to choose from. I picked Kentucky Rain sung by Elvis Presley and written by Eddie Rabbitt and Dick Heard. Here is a video with lyrics:

Diaphanous

When veils are down then we may meet
The overlying mystery
Unless we’re busy frantically
Ignoring what was there to see.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme to pick one of the three words: “seraphic, diaphanous or immutable”. I picked diaphanous although I’m not sure what it means.

One-Liner Wednesday – All that’s required

Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly with the Lord.

Paraphrased from Micah 6:8. Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday and linked to David Pawson’s video on Micah, where I first heard this line.

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Plastic Fantastic

I figured I best take a lid,
Fantastic plastic white.
The plant is real. The pot is not.
The coffee’s real enough and hot.
The day spins with delight.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “plastic fantastic”.

Without Ice

Bart looked left and right at the majestic Atlantic Ocean, the blue skies and hot sandy beaches. It was 90 degrees. He told the real estate agent, “I suppose if the global economy heats up so much that the ice caps melted then all of these high-rise condos would turn into part of the Everglades.”

“I’ve been waiting for it to happen for over two decades.”

“This place could sink into the ocean. I wonder who’d want to live here then?”

“I’m sure the alligators wouldn’t mind.”

Bart agreed with the agent: Better buy while the ground’s still dry.

Linked to Carrot Ranch. The theme this week for the 99-word stories is “without ice”.

Landscapes

Landscapes lying in the stone.
You and I are not alone.
Suddenly what’s far comes near
When the starlings reappear.

Linked to dVerse Poetics. Sarah is hosting. The feature photo is by Mary Frances.

Architectural Marvels

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “cosmic curvature architectural marvels.” Amid all the straight lines I hope to see cosmic curvature.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 
Turning round from flight
From cold wintry blight,
We stay.
Colorful and bright
Rainbows raise out sight,
Display
Gardens growing right
Where there once was night
Today.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “how does your garden grow?” and to dVerse Poetic Forms featuring the “lai”.

Mysterious Things

 
Mysterious things
That soft, cool light brings -
Be true.
With silent, sure wings
My memory swings.
Renew.
Take care.  Poison flings
With doubt as it springs.

Dark fear creeps and clings.
The shrill discord rings.
Be kind.
Forgive. There joy kings
The lovebird who sings
To find
That  soft, cool light brings
Mysterious things.

Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. I will be hosting this Thursday with the theme of the lai and lai nouveau. Come and join us. Also linked to Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays.