Gehenna is a garbage dump From where those there could see Heaven, new Jerusalem, Above, majestically. I saw it on the sidewalk, A rusting, one-edge blade. I picked it up and wrapped it up And threw the blade away.
Linked to dVerse Poetics. Mish is hosting with the theme “New World”.
Happiness will help one glow. Happiness may not come though One does what one thinks one should do As colors blend with others new Cycling through the ever same Rebuked, reformed then round again. Winter’s whiteness stays a while Awaiting one more happy smile.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. This week the theme is ‘Color My World’.
Also linked to dVerse Quadrille. Lillian is hosting with the word “glow”.
It is also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. This past week the answers to a couple of questions on Quora suddenly made sense to me. There is nothing like understanding something (finally) to make me smile.
The sun comes rising from the sea, A sometimes cloudy mystery And sometimes not. It feels OK To sit near terns who watch with me.
Linked to dVerse Open Link Night. Grace is hosting.
Autumn echoes summer.
It echoes winter too.
May I echo only good
In what I choose to do.
Linked to dVerse Poetics. Merril hosts with the theme “echo”. I hope this echoes the prompt.
May the thought
My words have brought
Be pure
Like morning air.
It’s always you
I’m talking to
No matter who
Is there.
Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar where Amaya is hosting asking us to use ‘apostrophe’ in a poem. She describes it as “simply an address to someone not present or to an abstract concept”.
Fearless since what’s there to fear
Yet fearful of what might appear
But likely won’t. With death around
May Christmas cheer help hope abound.
Linked to dVerse Poetics. Laura Bloomsbury is hosting with a list of words ending in ‘less’ to include in a poem along with, hopefully, “a soupçon of hopefulness for Hope is the message in this first advent week!” I picked the word ‘fearless’.
Winter turns the spirit out.
Leaves go red and fall.
Snowy silence sits about.
I wonder at it all,
But know the proof comes in the spring
When leaves and flowers bloom
When birds again have warmth to sing
And outside’s like a room.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge where the theme is “The Coming of Winter/Winter’s Breath” or “Playing with Light”.
Also linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. I realized that I don’t understand all that I think I do. No matter how bad that might seem, my smile comes from also realizing that it isn’t all that bad.
Also linked to dVerse Quadrille. De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is hosting with the word ‘spirit’.
Roses are red
With all we’ve been through
Those many long decades
Are roses on you
Roses grew red
Violets turned blue
Fresh dreams with springtime
Still blossom from you
Roses are red
Ocean’s green hue
Shines with those seagulls
Who wander by you
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Winter has happened
And snow’s falling too
Roses are red
Cards slip like new
That ace up my sleeve
Turned into a two
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The last of my roses
I'm giving to you
Linked to dVerse Open Link Night. Grace is hosting. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
A poem , Walking, with an accompanying photograph of mine were published yesterday in Ancient Paths Literary Magazine. I am grateful to the editor Skylar Hamilton Burris for accepting it.
A poem , Walking, with an accompanying photograph of mine were published today in Ancient Paths Literary Magazine. I am grateful to the editor Skylar Hamilton Burris for accepting it.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
All that goes blurry
Gets clearer with you
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Prompt with the theme ‘Blurred’. And linked to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile since I realized that any of us being here at all would be miraculous. What made me smile about that was we actually are here.
