If We Were Having Coffee: Happy Pet Photo Day!

Hello! How are you doing? I am so, so very sorry I haven’t been around lately. I have been working on some rather large projects lately before the school year starts up again. You arrived at the perfect time to give me a break from doing a little research for a resurrected WIP called “Jolly […]

For What Shall I Strive?

If not happiness, for what shall I strive: Emotion Bottled Logic Anesthetized Wisdom Luminous Connection Vulnerable Stability Reliable Memory by Fortune Tagged: #archives, #poetry, meaning

Fibonacci Cat

Marmalade Cat Dreams blue Wings black eye He trills and crouches low Glass-sheeted screen divide-               bluebird finishes his bath Linked to The Music In It: Adele Kenny’s Poetry Blog and The Fib Review: The Fibonacci poem is a poetry form based on the structure of the Fibonacci number sequence. […]

Quick Heads Up!

Hey friends :D Lately I’ve been looking at different literary journals that I could send my poetic darlings. I have a few leads that I am going to explore. As a result, I’m not going to be around this weekend except my Weekend Coffee Share. Feel free to do some exploring on my blog. I […]

Cosmos Pregnant, Stretch Marks Shameless

What if a second could capture the last heart beat her baby kiss 4am grace scent of ridge top Or fresh ground black coffee bedevil now to inverse crystal ball risk Bell jar moonlight Move on with grace Cosmos pregnant, stretch marks shameless In Virginia Yellow headed Blackbirds look like Bees on lilac Image by […]

Jane Eyre: A Found Poem

Human treasure Born delights Independent will I cannot price Withheld Self-respect Sold for Extraneous delights   Linked to Miz Quickly Excerpts from “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brönte: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require […]

Shake It Up with Invisible Touch

Love Cruiser, Think Up the Dream Domino Throwing Maybe Be Over Tonight, Brazilian Dream of Confusion Today’s prompt over at Poetry 101 Rehab is all about the word “found.” Many of my teenage memories had the tunes of The Cars and Genesis playing on repeat. For this found poem I took the song list from […]

Four Thoughts About My Bag

My Alice in Wonderland-coated bag Books, tablet, pencils and journal within Headphones and wallet vanish It is somewhere inside ℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵ Rabbit and Mouse in between Alice drinks tea with Mad Hatter Upon a neon pink throne My Alice in Wonderland-coated bag ℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵℵ Treasure-stuffed My Alice in Wonderland-coated bag In hallways or long car ride, it […]

Sun Is Like…

Sun is like batteries for dragonflies Dragonflies are like sons and daughters of the sky Sky is like the backdrop collage of trees Trees are like earthbound clouds Clouds are like tadpoles in our pool Our pool is like a marriage bed Bed is like bait for my dreams My dreams are like images of […]

Ode to a Lawn Chair

Two lawn chairs sit next to abandoned pool Recording secret messages of birds Not made of rocks, marshmallows or tulle But faded flowers, aluminum and words Lawn chair is like a life raft in the middle of a concrete sea Safe from mind blocks, spiders and aching bones Cloud servant and dream ally Lawn chair […]

At Morning Light

Fields lit with red sun brier Songs of moil our attire Evening comes we creep to bed Til cock crows to earn our bread Over at B&P’s Shardoma and Beyond I was introduced to the tanaga, a Filipino poem consisting of four lines with seven syllables each; the rhyme scheme is AABB. I found it interesting […]

“The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski

Image by The Illustrated Showman your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. […]

June, Brilliant Voice of Daughters

Mistress of ghostly ice and green fire Adorned in red shadows upon Her throne Distending light to suit Her desire Rulers the winter and summer alone Goddess of marriage she sings a wintry tune Voice of daughters, she’s brilliant June My weekly wikem  about June was inspired by this week’s  prompt by The Happy Amateur. […]

Palindrome Stage, Episode One: Twitter Poesy

barefoot Greet electric Thunder Drink tears and dance Dance and tears Drink Thunder electric Greet barefoot M&M cloying pheromone Dance beyond paper trail Lust receives his slave Daily delusion Satisfying conclusion Conclusion Satisfying delusion Daily slave (his) Receives lust trail Pheromone cloying M&M Sunshine flavored rain sweaty moonlight candle fly Velvet breath sunrise Sunrise breath […]

Weekend Coffee Share: Happy Hot Air Balloon Day!

Good morning, my friends! It’s still nice and cool today, so how about we go for a little walk today before it gets too warm? I promise to match your pace, unless you are jogging. I’ve never been a runner :D I have a lightweight thermos of your favorite beverage when you want it. I […]

Final Civil War Battle

Droop Mountain blue War souls do sleep Where dew weeps down Rock deep and wet Nature’s monument lest we ever forget This weekend’s Ya-Du was inspired by B&P’s Shardoma and Beyond challenging us to flex our grey matter. The Ya-Du is an ancient Burmese poetic form that follows these rules: 1.  Lines 1, 2, 3, […]

Perfect meter, I never knew…

Abstract words, how they flew Rough bumpy stanza, flattened haiku I struggle to understand a childproof rondeau Linked to Quickly, but don’t stress out and Yeah Write Moonshine Grid Tagged: #poetry, place poem, Quickly But Don't Stress Out

Haunting of the Puppet Kind

I was once chased by Kermit and Fozzy Beyond the busy beavers and twittering of death Through my old high school hallways, They with pick-axes, me with Carmella Gonzo’s chicken wife We hid along the traintracks Watched strings guide them Inch by inch To where we crouched As I thought, “When did Kermit turn from […]

A Pool’s Demise

Winter’s cold blanket Comfort of Nature’s birth pains Tadpole among pool bones Linked to Haiku Horizons Today’s prompt is “pond” Image by Bert Willaert, Belgium Tagged: #haiku, #poetry, Haiku Horizons

If I Could Gently Pack Enough…

To get me through Both bumps and glidings Books I have tucked between Heartbeats Lake water into my eyes Lingering chords close to my ears, soft and wild My daughters’ spirits across my womb Rough, smooth, bumpity spiked textures of love On each finger Tip I was born with a traveler’s spirit influenced first by […]