Category: Poetry

Promote Yourself Monday, March 16, 2020 and Round UP from March 9, 2020!

Originally posted on Go Dog Go Café:
Welcome to?Promote Yourself Monday! Another great week last week, now that we got the bugs worked out from the week before. Overall we had 270 views, 45 likes and 263 comments. As I have said before, numbers…

#American Sentence Sunday: Frilly Petals

“Red stemmed beauty dressed in frilly petals reaching for the warm spring sun.” –Linda Lee Lyberg Author’s Note: Clarkia unguiculata is a species of wildflower known by the common name elegant clarkia or mountain garland. This plant is endemic to California, where it is… Continue Reading “#American Sentence Sunday: Frilly Petals”

In Their Eyes

“Fear is the mind-killer.” ― Frank Herbert , Dune Standing in line at the grocery store: A woman in front of me buying 30 lbs of apples 20 lbs of onions and 2 dozen donuts- why?All I can surmise is the apples are for horses she owns,… Continue Reading “In Their Eyes”

#Haiku: Budding Season

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”  ― Rainer Maria Rilke sun breaking through cloudsa brisk spring breeze sings through treesthe budding season

Magic Reapers

I can tell you I spend my days talking to the singing birds or conversing with my little dog, who understands every word My neighbors know nothing of me or what’s churning in my heart I doubt they know my name, much less my… Continue Reading “Magic Reapers”

Tripping

It was a time of freedom- the seventiesFree love, free drugs, free to be me, free free freeLiving with friends, aimless wanderingNever pondering the future And then one night Bill Jr. came by He wanted to share his latest find Purple microdot in tiny… Continue Reading “Tripping”

#Haibun: Shades of Blue

On days like this when the wind is chill and the sun seldom peeks through the clouds, I wrap myself in a shabby cotton sweater. I am a butterfly in a blue cocoon, safe from the world and harm. It’s an odd looking sweater,… Continue Reading “#Haibun: Shades of Blue”