With Real Toads: A Garland Cinquain

http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2013/02/weekend-mini-challenge-cinquain.html

An attempt at a Garland Cinquain inspired by Hannah:


rustle
naturalist
the ink spun of your soul
words like butterflies in your net
captured

delight
with abandon
the nesting of your thoughts
words like spring breezes enveloped,
saved

light up
with sweet gesture
harmonious summer
gardens as golden honey is
combed

prepare
as the autumn
leaves dance - stock your larder
with imagination to spare -
insight

lighting
winter shadows
let us bask together
as we turn the pages of our
living

rustle
with abandon
harmonious summer
with imagination to spare -
living

(c) JP/davh

You can see the whole 'Honoring' here:
http://julesgemstonepages.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/honoring-8/

WWP 141: ...repeat that...Done and Done

http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/prompt-141-could-you-repeat/

A playful acrostic:
Done and Done
reconciliation
evocative
perplexing
explanations
animated
templates

tantamount......

hallucinogenic

apparition.........

tantalizes ........

restoration
evaluation
pondering
exponents
adoration
triumphant

theatrical.

hierarchy.

angelic.....

thoughts..

rejuvenation
empirical
pointillism
exclaimed
approach
tantalizing

tactile......

harmonic

approach

that....this

(c) JP/davh

Tuesday Tryouts: A Pair of Disjointed 'Wings'

For Tuesday Tryouts
http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/tuesday-tryouts-lets-fly/

A Pair of Disjointed ‘Wings’

I
Flight
Running
Away - towards freedom
- Which, “is just another word for nothing left to lose...”
More songs from the radio
‘Rocket Man’ - and not being who
“...They think I am...”

Finding truth in a voice belted out of a stereo speaker
The singer searcher, preaching, reaching
realizing that it really is true...that
_____________feet____________________      
“In dreams your         never touch the earth...”

II
Trying so hard to believe
And then for the briefest of moments
Watching the stars speed by
-Sitting on the moon-
When fear and disbelief curdled in your veins
When you hadn’t worried or thought of breath -
But the moment is  - gone
And your head slams into realities’ pillow...

(c) JP/davh

An Elfje and On Being Kinetic

Honoring...

http://subhanzein.wordpress.com/

(an Elfje)

electric
positive, evocatively
charged emotions, teaching
reaching, reacting, seeking, beyond
storytelling

On Being Kinetic...
We are all students, from our very first breath
Some get enough books others get stories
And if we are lucky we get both...

We are all teachers, artists molding whatever our medium
Clay, paint or words that express what we can not speak
Because only with the sculpting can our thoughts be completed

We are all artists working with the priceless and valued
Gift of life - some of us are lucky enough to have an audience
That attempts to understand our passions and share our smiles...


(c) JP/davh

SW94 Judgement

http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/wordle-94/

miserable, fuss, wish, go, again, interest
bust, figure, prove, straight, enough, sweet

Judgement
Only you can wish to be miserable and fuss
what is your true interest, what do you want to prove?

The lass seems sweet enough, yet again you go
trying to bust her figure and send her straight to hell!

Is it just because you lack your own faith that you
must convict another who you think threatens you?

And yet the argument fell silent upon deaf ears, as
the innocent child was tied to the stake and burned.

The angered Angel took her gentle soul straight through
St. Peter’s Gate - and adorned her with wings and halo.

(c) JP/davh

Thanks Brenda...I really like The Mentalist, and I think it was your
cackling laughter in your Early Words e-mail that led to this ‘redemption’ piece :)

One Thousand Times Over...

http://margoroby.wordpress.com/

One Thousand Times Over...
Explanations, explorations, introductions
Expanding the horizon and endless web
That connects poets and writers souls
Could there ever be enough words to say
One thousand times over; Thank you.

there are no miles
that separate what fate gifts
every season shines

Does it matter if winter is another six weeks
Or if spring will be early this year because
In our heart of hearts it is always summer
Even in our autumn years....my friend -
One thousand times over; Thank you. 


Oh,
Great Promptress
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
you are Master Po.
Grasshopper



(c) JP/davh

Four Reflections

http://heartstonefeathers.com/2013/01/17/a-flight-feather-of-a-different-kind/

Four Reflections
At two in the eastern sky half of a
Waning Wolf Moon looks like a tilted bowl
Somewhere on that silver surface is
A Peregrine Falcon feather
Left there in 1971 by the astronauts of Apollo 15

I hadn’t met you yet...my love
Thoughts were far from dating days
Married ways, children grown
Enough to have their own
And a suburban home on the cities edge

At two in the eastern sky half of a
Waning Wolf Moon - I would like to think
Somewhere shines upon sleeping
Pairs of Peregrine Falcons that
Grace the clear skies here and now...

On good clear days in all seasons -
I have collected a few feathers
That have fallen from the skies and
Wonder if any could be from one of
My majestic feathered falcons...

(and an Elfje)

plumage
of one
Peregrine Falcon
lies silently on the
moon