The shadowed edge Where dark blocks light Shows warmth of day On fading night
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “shadows and silhouettes”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. The beaches opened on Friday. I waded in very warm water on Saturday, a beautiful day, and smiled.
I woke up to a risen sun And clouds consumed with gray. I take a pen and start to write. In spite of charms from morning light I haven’t much to say. I often blame this on my brain. Why pace so, to and fro? Impatiently I start to stress. Persistence generates a mess Then drains. I watch it go. Another stanza? Oh, why not? I have a lot of time. I scribble some and cross that out Then doubt what it was all about. At least I still can rhyme.
Linked to dVerse Open Link Night. Grace is hosting.
I noticed from Kim M. Russell’s post that we each have poems in Visual Verse this month. My submission is Birds, Cats and Dogs. A poem by Jane Dougherty is also there. Visual Verse sends an email with an illustration at the beginning of the month. Poets are limited to 50-500 words and one hour to complete a poem. At the top of the page is a “Newsletter” link that you can use to get on their email list.
What she did so long ago, Or didn’t do, we now don’t know. She tripped some dudes and others who With twisted true-false love were bled. By some stone of one marked dead she stopped When all that no one knows of her was through.
Linked to dVerse Poetics where Laura Bloomsbury offers the challenge to imagine the life of a deceased person. I imagined the lady in Longfellow’s In the Churchyard at Cambridge.
The ocean’s gray without its blue And gray without the people, too. But I’m not feeling all that gray. I got through May. I'll go for June.
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “shades of gray”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. What’s there to smile about? Well, we’re still here. I got my life reorganized a bit, true, but perhaps that was all for the better. I need to do some housecleaning every once in a while. And this past week it did rain a lot. That made me think of hurricanes and Noah’s Ark until I saw the double rainbow in the east.
Oh how wicked fast these ancient lizards run. Do they love this rainy weather like I do - Crash and freaky lightning, rainbow when it’s done? Seeing makes us pause our steps. Who will go through? Phone in hand, he waits to let me take some shots. Off he pounces under plants with water blue.
Linked to dVerse Poetics where Sarah is hosting with the theme of rain.
Also linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. It is the last hour of the prompt where I am hosting on the theme of tercets.
Those whose eyes refuse to see the sunshine will Not see the moon rise slippery on the waters. Evenings darken waves on oceans wild or still. Before that night falls may my fresh eyes see And not ignore the ancient moon that follows me.
Linked to dVerse Quadrille where Linda Lee Lyberg is hosting with the word “slip”.
Rainy, rainy drips and drops
flushed from cloudy water spouts
down and down until it stops.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.
Also linked to dVerse Open Link Night where Grace is hosting.
So many rooms I used to know They all had much I miss. Their windows, floors and doors would flow With breathing just like this.
Linked to dVerse Poetics. Laura Bloomsbury is hosting with the theme of “rooms”.
Those boxed rectangles with bland colors offer some differentiation but that’s not enough. The white is what’s important not what steps on it to stand out.
Unless those squares let white show through, there’s nothing they can do except to blandly block the view.
But then I heard and understood. It’s not those ghostly squares. They’re the victims. It’s that deathly white itself, the very stuff I thought was pure. I almost didn’t see it. Now I do, burying, as if it could, the light that would shine through.
Empty restaurants
Birds will nest in time for spring
Water flows and falls
Linked to dVerse Haibun Monday. Kim Russell is hosting with the theme of Piet Mondrian’s ‘Broadway Boogie Woogie’.
New York City from the Empire State Building
So many geometric shapes! I toss the ones that will not do. I take the lighter ones with smiles And these I set in upright piles As markers for my trail to you.
Linked to Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “geometric shapes”.
Linked also to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. I have long realized that when my poems get shorter and shorter they become more like nursery rhymes. This past week that realization made me smile all the more.
