Category: Poetry

#Gogyohka: Tainted

“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”  ― Emma Donoghue, Room dark thoughts tainted with fearas uncertainty aboundscast upon this rocky shoremy mind a woven basketwhere I am trapped, alone Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #187 #Photoprompt dVerse Poets Pub: OLN The pub opens… Continue Reading “#Gogyohka: Tainted”

What Comes Around

“Because you have been blessed with the gift of life, it is your duty to help others. We are all responsible for one another.”  ― Kamand Kojouri What lies before us can be foundin the sins of our tainted past.Our fate in hard stone has… Continue Reading “What Comes Around”

#Haiku: Summer Meadow

a field of golden-summer wishes and sunshinefloating on bright air Frank J. Tassone: Hakai Challenge #148 Summer Meadow

Cat in Space

Turns out the man in the moon is a grey tiger cat stalking his preythe entire glorious universe in his eyes As I float through star-studded microgravity airhe bats me about with his sharp talons baredtrembling furry haunches, ready to pounce Once he leaps,… Continue Reading “Cat in Space”

#Tanka: Mesmerized

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.” ― Pablo Neruda To glimpse the divine As I fall under the spell Of golden brown eyes Mesmerized, I surrender As passionate fires ignite Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge: No. 186… Continue Reading “#Tanka: Mesmerized”

#Haiku: Smoldering

air rippling with heat- in the distance, a mirage water illusion Frank J. Tassone Hakai Challenge #147 Smoldering

I am the Shadow

“I like on the table,when we’re speaking,the light of a bottleof intelligent wine.” ― Pablo Neruda I am the shadowcast upon the tableby an emerald bottleof rich ruby wineveiled in haunting moonlightripe with the juice of blackberriesdark as the earth’s terra I am an enigma… Continue Reading “I am the Shadow”