Category: Poetry

Promote Yourself Monday, November 4, 2019

Originally posted on Go Dog Go Café:
Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday.  All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram…

#Silent Sunday

“I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”  ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Secret Language

What secret language do the reindeer speak when tender autumn hovers, trembling hanging in frost edged grey dawn aira foreshadowing of frigid cold to come. Frosted copper leaves have fallen the towering trees stripped bare for brittle winter ice is comingso they hover ever… Continue Reading “Secret Language”

Burrow

Burrowdown to the depthsthe tomb of hell awaitsgaping mouths, hungry for lost soulsfresh bloodhot flesh, tainted from sin and greedfeast of the seven sinsripe and readyto eat. Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge: #151 Dig & Grave Synonyms only

Autumn’s Lumbering Light

In autumn’s lumbering light, as wind howls, undressing trees I thought I sawa glimpse of golden brown eyes yet I know it musn’t be, (crushed) as you’ve been gone so many yearsfor the seasonal rains and I have shed a river of useless tears… Continue Reading “Autumn’s Lumbering Light”

#Haiku: Virginia Bluebells

carpenter bee restsdrawn to Virginia bluebellsswaying in the breeze Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: #1772 Virginia Bluebell

#Troiku: Fireflies

longing for the grassemerging from the damp earthlightning bugs take wing at the bottom of the poolgreen bullfrog awaitsautumn’s glowing feast those firefliessending signals for a matehoards of blinking lights At Carpe Diem, we have been challenged to write a troiku using the following… Continue Reading “#Troiku: Fireflies”