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Month: July 2020

poison ivy

stepping in the poison ivy /
i only felt the cool of green /
it wasn’t ’til much later /
that I felt its bite – so mean.

burn, choices, delay, itch, poison ivy, weeding

simple

some folks, I guess, /
will always long /
to have the mess, the wrong /
all gone.

instant, messy, process, time

Werewolf

He strains to break free ~
Daylight ties him securely ~
Moonbeams cut the cords ~

#haikai, #haiku, #poetry, #tanka, anger, day, fear, nightmares, rage, werewolf

mountaintop moments

from the foothills of the ~
or the deepest valley ~
the icy peaks seem… ~
romantic.

foothill, lack, moments, mountain, time

wonderland

a nice place to visit…

blockage, flow, lake, nature, nice place to visit, peace, river, water

lighthouse

Darkness – Not a thing ~
Merely an absence of light ~
Shine more brightly, friends.

#haikai, #haiku, darkness, light, lighthouse, shine

The Rainbow Sonnets – IV, V, & VI

Then Clarity arrived at once, so Fast
/ Paint with the Rainbow, Life will come at last.

art, authentic, colors, create, gray, paint by numbers, prism, promise, rainbow, spectrum, truth

Flesh on Bone

Stones/Bones/Lifeless Zones

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, bone, brown, green, joshua tree, Life, muscle, stone, strong, wasteland

gravity

physics’ laws apply
/ beyond the world
/ of weight and mass

gravity, mass, Maya Angelou, mood, on the pulse of morning, perspective, physics, still I rise, weight

Vesuvius

it came upon us way too fast / some ran to life, we chose to hide.

#decima, cinders, died, dormant, hide, pompeii, run, vesuvius, volcano

Act Your Age?

real children still look up at the stars and imagine magic, make a wish.

adulting, age, childhood, dreaming, growth, hopeless, learning, wishes

clear through to Z

I’m tired of looking at straight lines / The distance from point A to B

complex, draw, shadow, shapes, simple, straight, tracing

reaching

progeny / feeling the pressure

parenting, perfectionism

guardrails

good drivers don’t need no stinkin’ guardrails…

amateur, driver, feelings, guardrail, novice, professional, reasoning, speed

dangerous tools

she wants her hands upon the tool / the danger that it holds compels

#decima, danger, Freedom, maturity, noose, protective, respect, restraints, risk, spirit

Sonnet III – What Was and Ne’er Will Be

the door before me bids me walk on through, but pieces – grief and anger – won’t allow.

anger, crying, fear, feelings, grief, haunt, hurting, pain, rage

soaked

rain falls to the earth /
lightly but with great intent /
sere to soaked means life

intent, rain, sere, soaked, wet

false flags?

thought peace was forged 
/ a new flag flown

anger, armistice, bandage, ceasefire, flags, grief, infection, poison, retreat, septic shock, treaty, war

Sonnet II – hope’s lament

I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed

charades, Christ, Christianity, church, fruit of the spirit, hope, Jesus, judge

survivor

PTSD / doesn’t happen to me / that’s for soldiers / and survivors of abuse

dissociative, dreams, Freedom, keys, locks, Poetry, process, PTSD, rilke, survivor

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