Charmed Chaos

Surrounded by the scent of fresh
white cotton sheets drying
in scorching summer sun
weaving in and out of them,
a sweet young child having fun
chasing dancing sunlight
racing on the baked ground

She has not a care in the world
with her red-gold bouncing curls
giggling in the humid land-locked breeze
while she is imagining herself at the helm
of her daffodil-yellow painted boat sailing
cresting up, up and then down, down
on the brilliant salt-drenched blue-green seas

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

Author’s Note: Margaret is hosting at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads today and has given us some images to choose from and would like us to interpret our chosen image one of three ways. I chose #2.
1)  Use an ekphrastic writing approach by closely observing the photo. (vivid description)
2)  Create a narrative beyond the frame and reimagine the photo (storytelling)
3)  Interpret or impart an impression of sentiment or promise from the photo

Two blush pink poppies in a sea of vibrant strangers-
Pale papery petals fading, dying in morning sun

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

Author’s Note: Over at the Garden today, Toni is hosting and has asked us to Write a two line poem in which you convey some startling image, an image that juxtaposes two images.  Her example is the poem by Ezra Pound:

In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads: In a Station of the Metro

“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Lao Tzu 

Raking the lines in the zen
flowing with soft grains of sand
thoughts come in and go
tides of turquoise ocean
ebbing and flowing
as a cool morning zephyr
stirs tubular chimes into song
European Starlings bathe in the fountain
sending bright prisms of water splashing
upwards to a mayflower blue sky
this restful peaceful home
is where I belong
raking and meditating
with white grains of sand

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads: Reboot,Rewind,Recycle,Rebirth

“Trees indeed have hearts.”
― Henry David Thoreau

Does a tree dream in vivid colors
as it sleeps in the cloistered forest
with fertile earth on gnarled roots
while it sways in the promising breeze.

And as it views the kaleidoscope world
from every trembling greening leaf
does it look at the intricate designs
as rampant nature repeating itself
in the shape of each blooming flower
or does it believe each is rare and unique
with all their beautiful intrinsic power

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads: Kerry Says- Let’s be Imaginists!

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”- William Shakespeare

Here amidst the thorny arms,
a Curve Billed Thrasher builds a nesting home
a complicated blend of sticks and twigs
nestled deep in a green cactus fortress
where the female will brood and rest
on their beautiful blue speckled eggs.

Aggressive birds, they are fierce and brave,
seldom shying away- doing whatever it takes
to protect their tiny feathery fledglings
from coyotes, roadrunners, and snakes.

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

Author’s Note: I came upon this Thrasher nest on my morning walk one day. I am amazed at the detail in construction, and how they fly in/out of this tight space without getting thorns!

Photo Credits: The two cactus photos are mine. The bird photo is from Image by skeeze from Pixabay. The nest is from Wikimedia Commons

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