Poppies all have lost their bloom.
Summer heat is here.
With such brightness even gloom
Is smiling through its fear.
Text: Linked to dVerse Open Link Night. Grace is hosting.
Photos: “Clothed with Leaves”, above, and “In the Distance Brightness”, below.
The heart is the safest place to store what’s valuable.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday and Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays.
Don’t get tangled up in stuff
While dreams go their ways.
Giving all you have’s enough
To lighten shadowed days.
Text: Linked to dVerse Poetics where Michelle from mishunderstood.com is hosting with the theme of sharing your knowledge.
Photos: “Seemingly Tangled”, above, and “Giving All It Has”, below.
What they would say is “Go away.
Leave our young in peace.
But should you dare, well, we’re prepared
To treat like bad geese.”
Photos: “Swans Looking at Me”, above, “Circles of Color Amid Fairy Green”, below linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “say what you see”. The captions of the photos are me saying what I see in the photos and the poem imagines what I think those swans are saying to me.
It’s not something that I don’t know
Though what it is is hard to say.
It’s not something that words can show.
Wordiness is not its way.
It’s not that it is not not there.
I take a breath and let it be.
It’s not that I can point out where,
But everywhere it calls to me.
Text: Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. Bjorn is hosting with the theme “via negativa”.
Photos: “Below Are Shadows”, above, and “Morning Light Touches Dark”, below.
Kindness is a kind of glue.
Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday and Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays since kindness presumes some forgiveness.
My imaginary friend knows where I am. I’m on a quest to find that idea that will turn life right-side up again. It could be a fool’s errand, but I have nothing else to do. So if you’re looking for me, you might as well stop. I don’t have the answer–yet. Find the answer and offer to share it with whomever wants to know. Then, perhaps, I will find you.
SUNLIGHT AND SANDSTONE
MAGPIES FIND THEMSELVES AT HOME
SOMETIMES SO DO I
Text: Linked to dVerse Poetics. Amaya is hosting with the theme “getting personal”.
Photos: “Sunlight and Sandstone”, above, and “Morning”, below.
Fear is round like cobblestones
Hampering my feet.
It looks as dead as dried-white bones.
It needs no more to eat.
I feed it nonetheless and so
It grows to my chagrin.
When it bursts that’s when I know
My breath flows free again.
Text: Linked to dVerse Quadrille Monday. De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo) is hosting and the word is “cobble”. I am also linking this to Jilly’s “Day 4 of 28 Days of Unreason” featuring poetry by Jim Harrison.
Photos: “Maple Lit by Streetlight”, above, and “Light and Dark”, below.
One kind word and coffee will
Open up my heart to you.
If you’re out of coffee, love,
That one kind word will do.
I wrote this while drinking a cup of double espresso with steamed milk at Java Punk Coffee in Colorado Springs. It was the best espresso drink I’ve ever had. The photos above and below were taken at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. I am linking this to dVerse Open Link Night.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 