Charmed Chaos
Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
Autumn Rain
Rolling thunder and pounding rain
greets the ominous grayscale dawn
dark skies threatening, unburdening
heavy clouds of their watery weight.
And between the rushing torrents,
trees hang low from the strain
of dripping diamonds glistening
in stark rays of a shy peeking sun.
But once more the downpour comes
washing the gritty layers of dust away,
bidding goodbye to brutal summer
and a joyful hello to glorious autumn
as the arid desert comes alive, revived
again by the nourishing pouring rain.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s Note: It’s the first day of autumn and I awoke to a marvelous rainstorm!
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 23 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories.
You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and her Amazon Author Page
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Promote Yourself Monday, September 23, 2019
Happy Monday, and you know what that means! It’s Promote Yourself Monday at the Go Dog Go Cafe. Pop over to the site, share your latest works, and join in the fun. Have a marvelous week!- Linda
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 feed into the comments section below.
If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.
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Biscuits and Sausage
The smell of sizzling pork sausage
frying up in a black cast iron skillet
while homemade biscuits rose in a hot oven
set my little girl mouth to watering
because Grandma knew her way around her kitchen.
She took the piping hot biscuits and slathered them
with glistening golden cold chunks of butter
and then she smothered perfect baked puffy clouds
light as a feather in Louisiana’s own Steen’s syrup.
Thick as molasses dark, rich and candy sweet
a delightful breakfast for me, served in a tin pie pan
so I could dip the sausage and dunk the buttery biscuits
in the dark luscious river of ribbon cane syrup
that came in a sunny bright yellow can.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads: Weekend Mini Challenge: Grandma’s Kitchen
Poets United: Poetry Pantry #494
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#Haiku: Autumn Leaves
“She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
burnt sienna haze
autumn paints the verdant trees
shades of ginger orange
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 23 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories.
You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and her Amazon Author Page
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#Haiku: Morning Dew
“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
― Marty Rubin
toiling through the night
spider weaves delicate web ~
trapping morning dew
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 23 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories.
You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and her Amazon Author Page
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Watching You Watching Me
Watching you watching me
what is it you see, could it be
the sway of my voluptuous hips
as my lacy nightie slips
over my inviting thighs?
I sense your desire
I hear a ragged sigh
slipping from your lips
as your heart trips
from the glimpse
of love’s abyss
yearning for you
as I watch you
watching me
vigilantly.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Poets United Midweek Motif: Vigilance
dVerse OLN
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#Haiku: Gilded Sunset
“There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night’s.”
― Ed Gorman, Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
long and winding road
leading to gilded sunset~
blackbirds chasing light
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 23 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories.
You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and her Amazon Author Page
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JUST RELEASED!
JUST RELEASED!
Linda Lee Lyberg
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