Month: Jul 2021
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Two American Sentences
Ernest Hemingway said your first line must be undeniable truth. The acer tree sure grew a lot bigger than its label said it would. Playing with American Sentences: 17-syllables. Shared with #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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8:10AM – This Is Not A Diary
I Think I Smell Coffee Night’s wickburns darkness until dawn.I wake,and exit these blind contoursinto morning’s perfume. for Poetic Bloomings “Exit” Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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Mirage: Breaking Enjambment Rules
Mirage (an ekphrastic poem) You’re half asleep, and thenYou’re gone A mirage of leavesA rippled slope Water’s mirror still as Trees spread like fingersTwisted curtains, fog Light and bright Entwined on a breeze I laid out a picnic here once In a mirage Breaking enjambment rules. Image from Unsplash. Shared with #APoemADay…
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8 July 2021: Weather Poetry
08.07.21 Weather Poetry Today is bristle-brisk. Woolly wordslaughing and dashing out the door. The wind is breath and gladnessin concentric circles of clouds. A twig taps on the windowpane,it’s an arrhythmic heartbeat. Thunder races between day andnight, like a chariot driven home. Poem Form: Weather poem using pathetic fallacy (see #7). Image is from Public…
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I Dream …
I Dream of light streaming like God’s white hair,of places I’ve never been,of wet soil and warm rocks underfoot,of a stone rattling in a boiling pot,of long trails and uncertain journeys,of boundaries and geography,that fiction is sometimes fact,of books without plots,of thoughts without point,of breath and dense air and thirsty fish,of quiet faces and summer…
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An Ekphrastic American Sentence
A fine-haired brush swept the sky – it’s a dark painting that’s dying to flood. This is a 17-syllable “American Sentence” which received benefit of linebreaks. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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A Bit of Silliness
Pasted He says the gravyis way too thick,and it looks likebaby sick.The man has no taste,and it’s such a wasteof perfectly goodschool glue. Shared with #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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An Excerpt From a Conversation with Customer Service
You can’t deliver dead flowers to a woman whose husband just died. This is a 17-syllable “American Sentence” which received benefit of linebreaks. Shared with #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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for VV’s July Ekphrastic Image Prompt
Summer Songs There’s music in us all. The way a song lightensthe step of hiking boots. Lyrical as an adventure,its new sights and soundsbeyond our narrow path. We waved goodbye to ourmamá and papá, setting offinto golden dust of rising sun.Song took them into bluedrifts of clouds. Beyond us, where music strums morningand breezes tease our earswith ancient…
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The Path Near Tully’s Farm
A Quiet Moment There’s no pomegranate,lotus flower, lion or thrones here.There’s no death or grieving, or lumbering sea.There’s only the quiet you find in emptiness. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
It's Still Life 