#CosPhoChal – Page 25 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Drain the Color

Dale offers the theme “drain the color” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. More specifically, he writes, “I would like you to capture the brightest, most vivid subjects you can find and then; Drain the colours.”.

In the Trees

Dale offers the theme “in the trees” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Reflections

Dale offers the theme “reflections” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. The top photo shows reflections on a pond. The bottom photo shows the reflection of the rising sun.

Reflection of the Rising Sung on the Beach

From an Unusual Angle

Dale offers us the prompt “from an unusual angle” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. The top photo views roses from below. The bottom photo is a view from about the eye-level of a pigeon.

Midsummer

Dale offers the theme “midsummer” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. These photos were taken at the Skokie Lagoons where I often walk.

Inversion

Dale offers “inversions” as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. I’m not sure what inversions are so I merely rotated two photos 180 degrees. This is what I’d see if I stood on my head.

On the Coast

Dale offers the theme “on the coast” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge. Here are some views of the Atlantic Ocean in southern Florida.

Eugenia offers the prompt “nature” for this week’s Thursday Prompt.

Nature

Sunrise yellow, orange and blue –
rain may entertain us, too.

Two Challenges

Dale offers the theme “in bloom” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Challenge this past week requires us to use ten of the following:

sunflower, watermelon, pool, in your eyes, clear skies, before the rain, margarita, hot sauce, zest for life, heavenly, sunshine, total eclipse, out of the blue, the whole enchilada, and yellow brick road

Loss

In your eyes I saw clear skies
before the rain that day.
All left at once out of the blue,
the sunshine and the sunflower, too,
the hot sauce zest for life I knew.
Our margarita laughing pool
shut down. You went away.

Here Comes Summer

Dale offers the prompt “here comes summer” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I submitted the following nonsense poem to Chel Owen’s A Mused Poetry Contest. The contest theme is “a silly poem about an unusual eccentricity”. It is still open for those who want to enter.

Moon Dancing

The night sky is clear and the full moon is bright.
It’s nutty I know but I’ll dance in its light.
The moon doesn’t care. “Yes, I do.” Well, so what?
“You’re nutty enough.” No, I ain’t. “You’re a nut.”

Blue Ridge Parkway Near Laurel Springs, North Carolina

Freestyle

Dale offers the “freestyle” theme this week for the Cosmic Photo Challenge which means post anything you want. These were taken at the Chicago Botanic Garden.