Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Upside Down

Some people claim right-side up is upside down but we all know which side is which and which up is not.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge where the theme is upside down.

Photos: “Upside”, above, and “Down”, below.

The Sun smiles on the rising dew
That turns to mist as Joe walks through.
Dreams do not come realized.
Mary waits with patient eyes
And trusts in what they’ve done.
When they knew the monsters won,
When terrors came to own their town,
When death appeared to take them down
They walked obeying mother’s call.

Let mountains from the heavens fall.
The final light is what they’ll find
Forgiving all they’ve left behind.

Linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar. Bjorn hosts with the theme of narrative poetry. I hope this poem is narrative enough. This is also linked to Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays.

Photos: “Morning Fog”, above, “Misty Sunrise”, below.

One-Liner Wednesday — Nutty Nonsense

Aligned and neatly polarized we felt our hatred grow. Logic’s nonsense helped us out. It told us what it’s all about and let our madness show.

Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday.

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Mindful In My Hand

This tiny notebook that is in my hand
Contains this poem written here for you.
It won’t take long. I’ll tire of it, too,
But when it’s done, we’ll put it all away
And watch the sun explore another day.

Linked to dVerse Poetics. Sarah is hosting with the theme of mindfully writing about something in one’s hand.

Double Exposure

In order to get a double exposure for K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, I installed GIMP. I am still going through their tutorials.

The top image is what I started with. The contrast between the green and yellow leaves already seem like a double exposure. The bottom image I’ve titled, “Proof That I Don’t Know What I’m Doing”, but I do kind of like that bright yellow near the center.

One-Liner Wednesday — Doors and Walls

The prison key of precious jade
Locked doors of duty finely made.
Love arrived, revised the spell.
The doors survived. The walls though fell.

Linked to Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday and Debbie Roth’s Forgiving Fridays.

Circus

My circus has the highest tent,
The wildest acts of all.
The tent’s the sky.
The birds up high,
They show the way to loop and fly.
They never fear to fall.

Linked to dVerse Poetics. Sarah is hosting and the theme is circus.

Photos: “I’d Get Dizzy Doing That”, above, and “The Birds Wouldn’t Sit Still So I Took a Picture of This Bee”, below.

The Onset of Autumn

The heat says summer still is here
But autumn’s on its way.
The trend will change and when it does
I won’t know why it does because
I thought the trend would stay.

Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Photos: “Dark Leaves and Bright Sky”, above, “Fence and Field After Mowing”, below.

A, B, C, D, E and F

After all the pleasures here,
Before new wonders I might fear
Can I feel the present bliss
Donning on the now like this?
Even when fresh hope feels gone
Find there’s hope that lingers on.