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#Haiku: Honey Perfume Rose
“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
sweet honey perfume
ruffled apricot petals-
scattered on cold ground
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge: No.205 Poet’s Choice
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 24 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 purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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A Glowing Orb
A cold shaft of pearl moonlight
Breaking through the barren trees
A glowing orb bouncing, weaving
Come! Sweet fairies dance in winter leaves
Sway with your lover dragonflies
With wings raised high
Waltz the starry night away
As jeweled butterflies in your hair shine
©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 24 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 purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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For You and You Alone
Golden orb hanging low
in waning evening sky,
Your amber eyes aglow
in sunset’s fading light
My love, come closer still
let me whisper in your ear
I’ll sing your blues away
for I’ll always love you dear
forever and a day
For you and you alone,
I’ll part the deepest green sea
For you and you alone
I’ll lasso this harvest moon
For you and you alone
are the only one for me
For I’ll always love you dear
until my dying day
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub: MTB Synesthesia
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 24 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 purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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They Say Only the South Wind Flattens Grass
Watching a noisy flock of geese while they
gaggle to one another, pondering what they say
and why they travel far and wide, only
to spend the winter days basking in the
warmth of sparkling sunshine in deep south,
with feathers ruffling and dancing in the cool wind
their foraging beaks and webbed feet flattens
every emerald green blade of grass
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poetics: Travels in the Wild
Author’s Note: This is a Golden Shovel Poem. The line and title of my poem comes from “Surfacing” by Kathleen Jamie
Here are the rules for the Golden Shovel:
- Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.
- Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.
- Keep the end words in order.
- Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).
- The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words.
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 24 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 purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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Breathless
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
In these dreams, I write in colors I’ve always known
for in my very breath flows shades of indigo
that at times catch, leaving me breathless
searching, always searching for more.
Born in fall’s waiting air, trees dressed in leaves
of scarlet and gamboge I entered the world
with barely a cry, such a solemn child
searching, searching for an eternal home.
And in her sweet eyes I peered,
seeing my own odd reflection
naught but a new helpless babe
with a shock of burnished red-golden
fine hair, nary a thought or care
of how I came to be there,
drowning in her indigo eyes
searching for home nevermore.
©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg
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Slip Away
“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
Golden light of dusk fading gray
as daylight’s candle snuffed
drifting smoky clouds linger
a sense of peace surrounds
this sacred primitive scene.
And in this memory we will abide
forever and a day as we slip away
in a weathered skiff for two.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub: Quadrille 117 – The Dude Abides
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 24 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 purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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#Shadorma: Riot of Color
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Majestic
grape petunias
blossoming
among bright
red geranium flowers
riot of color
©2020 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 24 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 purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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