Charmed Chaos
Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
This Poem is a Thunderstorm, a Desert Wash and Wildflowers
This poem is a thunderstorm raging across the scrubby desert
lightning striking mammoth saguaros, leaving behind
a spectral skeleton to rot in the coming hot summer sun
This poem is the sound of cold plops of rain hitting dry earth.
This poem is a flooding wash, where muddy waters race
forming their own paths leaving behind in their wake,
exposed crystals, minerals, tumbleweeds and gold
This poem is a flooding river in the once arid desert.
This poem is a kaleidoscope of southwestern wildflowers,
where once barren land save for chollas, and cacti is now a
beautiful landscape of opposites, lush blooms and deadly thorns
This poem is the hopeful voice of spring in Arizona.
This poem is a thunderstorm, a desert wash, and wildflowers.
©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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In a Spring Garden
Gentle breeze and sweet sunshine in a spring garden
where vivid green tendrils vine and climb
murmuring to wild roses blossoming spirits
Come, feel the quiet solitude of verdant trees
for harmony is here in ancient forest boughs
while wandering the yielding mossy path beneath
and listening to the poetry of bird song above
wrapped in the silence of nature’s peace
©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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Call Me Daisy
I am but a tiny seed
Carried by unsettled wind
Until I find a resting place
In wayward stones and sand.
Desert sand is my companion
With a grainy texture so fine
Making it a perfect home
For an African Daisy to grow.
Every year with patience I wait
Yearning for the cold winter rains
To nurture my seed so it sprouts
For that’s when my glorious colors begin.
In vivid shades of orange and yellow
With an intricate pollen and black eye
I smile from my velvet heart center
At the warming sun in a a turquoise sky.
When this arid land starts to parch and sear,
My short life is ending as I droop and fade
So I drop my delicate children seeds
Who then await the chilly winter rains.
And come next spring’s season,
They carpet stones and sand
As if almighty God himself
Had painted this sacred land.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s Note: I have become enamored with African Daisies, which are profuse in my neighborhood. I have a few started for this year but the pics are from a neighbor’s yard. They will grow anywhere it seems so they are tough, yet so bright and cheerful!
Come join us today where I am hosting dVerse Poetics The topic is “To Be a Flower”. The prompt goes live at 3:00 PM EST. Hope to see you there!
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A Chance Encounter
There are moments caught between heart-beats when the world tilts on its axis and time stops. For the woman it is when she first hears his deep voice from behind while standing in line to see a movie.
“Everything I learned, I learned from the movies.”
She turns around, and looks into the most startling brown eyes she has ever seen. They are deep amber, with flecks of gold shot through like an autumn sunset.
He smiles and asks, “Do you know who said that?”
“Of course, Audrey Hepburn, my favorite. She stars in the movie we are about to see. And it is also based on a book by one of my favorite authors- Truman Capote.”
He laughs, offers his hand and says, “Hi, my name is Truman. What’s yours?”
And in that instant, the world tilted and Holly fell in love.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub: Prosery Between Heartbeats Today, Kim challenges us to use the following line from a poem in a story up to 144 words. The line is: There are moments caught between heart-beats. My story is exactly 144 words.
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Promote Yourself Monday, 2/17/20 and Roundup for 2/10/20
It’s Promote Yourself Monday at the Go Dog Go Cafe! Stop by, share your latest, and be sure to read and comment on other submissions. Have a great 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.
What a great week we had last week! WOW! The numbers: 202 comments, 169 views, and 36 likes. Most important, we had 25 posts shared with us, now is your chance to go back and take a look at these amazing writers and people… I know I have some catching up to do. As always, stay a while, scroll around, and write, write, share, write! — Stephen
https://redcat.wordpress.com/2020/02/09/pansarbjorne-visitor/
Poetry – While We Lay Together
https://eluminoracreations.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/friday-flashback-stolen-blood/
Eugi's Weekly Challenge – Love – February 10, 2020
Feeding My Soul – Weekend Writing Prompt
https://hisnamewaszach.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/it-builds-character/
What do you see # 16 February 10, 2020
https://liyonadancer100.wordpress.com/2020/02/09/poems-from-the-past-pt-1/
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#Silent Sunday
Mesa,AZ
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets- Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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#Haiku: Hawk
young hawks perched on high
still learning their gift of flight
hunting with their eyes
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Frank J. Tassone Haikai Challenge #125: Hawk
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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