Sunset sprawls;Mother Earth’sexposed crownreadies for acareful clippingweeded and watered,watered and weeded. Don’t pour tearson serrated leaves;summer season’s slow,let latent buds … More
Tag: Quadrille
On a Jet Plane
A Sulky Sleep
Grumpy skies,cranky flat cloudforms my pillow;tucked to one side.Thunder grumblesas letdown lightning strikes. Pitter-patter,pins and needles,my sullenness pours.Gurgling gutter,I’m pulled … More
Stories Written In Chalk
Draw a box,hopscotch,tippy toes,count and hop.This spring,my son’s Titanic sinksin the concrete sea.Impressionistic flowers,daughter’s rainbow fingersarch with belief.I raise my … More
My Easter Bunny Heart
Happy Easter! I’m traveling today, so I thought I’d re-post some Easter-themed pieces from the past, you know, just in … More
Quadrille #149 To Everything
Time to collect sticks and slimy stones from forest stream.To bandage boo-boos, kiss my childrens’ playtime injuries.Time to spread knowledge; … More
Eyeing the Quadrille #147
Björn is the host for tonight’s Quadrille #147, a 44-word poem containing the word “eye.” I was inspired by my visit … More
Quadrille #146 I Live in Salt
Draw Out a Water Muse–Quadrille #143
DeJackson aka WhimsyGizmo tasked us with summoning our inner muse and creating a quadrille-44 word poem that includes the word … More
The Truth About Tinsel–Quadrille #142
The truth about tinsel:poor man’s ice,telltale trashbag tree,treebangs of the 80’ssprinkled to hidethe ugly limbs,the dried dull-grey,the balding spots.
A Starry Crown-Quadrille #141
I wanna wear a starry crownjangle jewels of joy, let my soul shinedespite the flawed design;seeds scattered in darknesssurvive underground.
A Sorta Fairytale Quadrille #140
Ashes are for Remembrance
Strike of matchleaf departing treefall of flint and ashsizzling flags set free.Skittering bones, wetrudge the season’s catacombs.
Famished Frogs
Nothing’s wrong, but worry lingers on.Putrid pond, scum forms tight bonds.Frogspawn, mutant genes carry on.Tadpoles feed on fresh-water encephalon.Growing long, … More
Shady Groove
Stitches made from switches,momma said our mouths were ditches;beatings are a blight you can’t removegrowing up inside a shady groove.
Sticky Trap
The Dangers of Going with the Flow-Quadrille #132
A rocky stream never goes to bed,flows like a blackout curtainspilling me past the shallowswhere I cling and gasp,stranded on … More
Exit Wound
Silver rings wound roundtwo fingers, tightness lingers,after many bobsup and down;our marriage isa merry-go-round. Laughter out on the town, thenthe … More
The Wisdom of Jack-Quadrille #127
Traded Bess for some beans,but beans are seedsplanted proudly,rooted in determination,producing something from nothing-rabbits in hats,replenishing themselves,magic fountains of youth.The … More
Confuzzle-Quadrille #126
Quadrille # 125 Anthocyanin Angel
Anthocyanin Angel,silky soak of sanity,the beveled glasslevels me; it steadiesafter each cerise sip.A blissful brook,a pencil’s tip,a chambré stream,wine sharpens … More
First Fizz
Swifter than eagles! Stronger than lions! What we just went through, a dance about to begin. A thing of beauty … More
Quadrille #122 Do Not Pass Go
Do not pass Go.Head straight to jail;roll away the days in there.Grasp cold bars instead of hands.Consider the beauty of … More
Way Opens-Quadrille Challenge 120
Way Opens When closed doors mean there’s only corridor;way opens.When evening finds you barefoot and vagrant;way opens.When faith is blown … More
Yard Sale of Thoughts 