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.
Should the day bring dismay
In some ominous way
As the clouds fluff their white at the blue
I will say as we stray
Through the beauty of May
That my heart to this light will stay true.
Photos: “Poppies from a Distance”, above, and “Orange and Yellow under an Overcast Sky”, below, linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Winter is the annual night
With the outside covered white
Putting on fresh dreams so sleep
Opens wide new eyes to light.
Nighttime is too short to weep.
Memories of joy we keep
And refreshed with inner sight
We take our daytimes ever deep.
Text: This is a variation on the rubaiyat I have been playing with. I will be featuring forms like this on Thursday at dVerse.
Photos: “Falling Snow”, above, “Snow Leaves the Trees with White”, below. These are linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge with the theme “trip the night fantastic”.
