Books and Poetry
At the bank of a river
Sits an empty bench
Soulful it seems
As if listening to the rushing water
Feeling the mist upon its surface
So alone
It calls for company
Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge – Week 33 by xingfumama.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Bank by Sue W & Gerry C
Time was such an elusive idea
Slipping through grasping fingers
End of days incomplete
Suddenly I find time staring me down
Challenging my resilience
In my new found freedom
Retirement alters the power of time
Malleable as putty
To be molded anew
Time was such an elusive idea
Challenging my resilience
To be molded anew
W3 Prompt #120: Wea’ve Written Weekly prompted by poet of the week, Val
Eugi’s Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Suddenly
Reena’s Xploration Challenge #343
A small field in small town Maryland
Filled with world travelers
I had hoped to meet some locals
But the exotic is intriguing
And their presence steal the show
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD)
I have secrets! You don’t believe me? Of course not. I am a model citizen after all. I check each of the boxes: A successful career, a lovely family, wonderful friends… Nobody suspects the darkness within, nor sees the weight of the burdens I carry. I don’t believe that speaking of such things is beneficial for the soul. I just continue to add layer upon layer of moss to camouflage the wounds. I keep the snapshots of my past within and I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook. With the photographs there and the moss hanging heavy, perhaps even I will no longer see the truth.
dVerse Prosery hosted by Kim.
Kim asks us to write a piece of fiction incorporating the following line from Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen “And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss.”
Each summer, I gaze into the bright face of a sunflower and vow to plant some in my garden. Spring arrives… I ready my flowerbeds, go to the local nursery and buy the usual vegetables and annuals. Deep summer arrives and I see sunflowers… in somebody else’s garden.
Faces shine brightly
To rival the summer sun
They pull at heartstrings
Such a fierce summer yearning
To be forgotten by spring
Colleen’s 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 47
Disseminating fear
Easily dismissed by my brain
Just another day in a backward world
Yet my body feels the impact
Little flutters of the heart
Fatigued to the core
Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #281
“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided.” Thomas Moore
All of the photos in this post were taken at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. A lovely and irresistible place for a garden stroll!
Lens-Artists Challenge #311 – What’s in a Garden? hosted by Ann-Christine.
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Irresistible by Gerry C. and Sue W.
Mass production of “must haves”
at the press of a button.
Machines are modern marvels,
but the marvelous are handmade.
Featured image is a photo taken by me of an artwork display at Albany International Airport. Robert Hite, Migration House, reclaimed wood and metal, 2007-2017.
Flycatchers abound
Balmy afternoon
By southeastern lake
They fly around me
Swooping and darting
One lands finally
An eastern kingbird
Perched high in a tree
Next day undeterred
I walk by a swamp
And for goodness sake
It’s a gray kingbird
That swoops from the sky
It may be absurd
Is the app faulty?
Same bird possibly
dVerse MTB: An Octameter for August and Sara Teasdale, hosted by Laura Bloomsbury
I. J.’s Birds of the Week Invitation LXXVI
Childhood revisited
Pond-side summer cottage
Just where it was so many years ago
Rowboats and canoes
Dock jumping at rustic community beaches
Barefoot freedom through green pastures
and hardwood forests (yes!)
Poison ivy infections…
an occasional bloodsucking leech (ugh!)
Little has changed since then
Just the perspective
The natural beauty breathtaking
The adventure elusive
W3 Prompt #119: Wea’ve Written Weekly poet of the week, Robbie, prompts us to write any combination of prose and poetry about a childhood memory and its impact.
JJJ Interactive Books