Category: Poetry
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1 September: Last Photo on the Card
I’ve been playing with my old Canon EOS 1100 camera, and discovering what a joy it is. It’s a bit heavy, and a bit cumbersome, but the quality is still impressive. This post is in response to Bushboy’s monthly photo challenge: Post the last photo on your SD card or device in August. ©Misky 2022…
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1 Sept: Jane’s Oracle #3
An American Sentence: 17 syllables. The jaded sweltering heat that marched through August has brought us apples. Jane’s Oracle spoke her words: jaded; sweltering; heat (which turned out to be heal); and march. The full list of words are at Jane’s. I believe the Oracle has finished talking to me this week. Poem form: an American sentence consisting of…
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31 August: Lines from the Garden
Dragonfly Gauzed dragonfly floats by, it’s long as a blue thread. Autumn leaves fall like dying stars. Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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30 August: dVerse Shelter
Storms in a Teacup There was all that thunder, it left the air tight as a strange brew of poison. I pour ginger tea in a shallow cup, my head is not mine, it thumps, and I open the window. Lilac-coolness fills morning’s voice with construction down the street and the rhythm of a lawn…
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30 August: An Elevenie Poem
Falling Tonightthe starsare salty. Fallingdry and hard aspennies that won’t quench theearth. An elevenie poem: 1.2.3.4.5.1 Image from Unsplash. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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29 August: #FOWC Sea
Fandango asks for a poem, flash fiction, or photo relating to the sea for his Fandango’s One-Word Challenge. Here’s my contribution to his prompt. A larger version of each image can be viewed by clicking the photo. Photos are mine ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting on Twitter
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29 August: A River Gone
A River Gone The oars have gone silent, and only a poem haunts those once rushing waters. for Earthweal weekly challenge. The photo above is mine, taken a few years ago along the Loire River. The image used for the prompt is below, which is the current state of the Loire River after a summer…
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29 August: An Erasure Poem
Clothes Make a Man It’s a man, cut offat the water, and the boy looks past him,then shook his head and said,mm … mm. He wore combat boots, and a rumpled grey suit covered with dials and knobs. WikiArt image by Bill Traylor, “Untitled Figure Construction of a Waving Man” 1947. Public Domain. ©Misky 2022 Shared…
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28 August: Jane’s Oracle #2
A Woman With No Cat A woman with no cat has a hand-bound book. Her friend made it. Page 1, Line 1: a recipe note.Something something add water. She wears country-people shoes,flat as sand, knotted at her thin ankles. If she had a cat, it would wear a bell.She loves birds. Pigeons aren’t birds. She…
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28 Aug: for Jane’s Oracle Words
A Satisfying Harmony She draws hearts on the shower screenHe’s sanding rust off the radiator Truthful, yes, she dries damp towels on it He rifles his tool box for a wire brush, sitson the floor, blows dust off skirting boards She’s eager to pleaseShe draws hearts on the shower screen Jane’s Oracle spoke the words below. Photo…
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