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[image from google]

Five Ways From Home

 Red ixoras garland the front gate

Azure points a silent thumb there

Without wingspan of chicken hawks 

Morning progresses to noon

A hot day in paradise

Seeking vittals go east 

At the main road meditate

School days, work days, and errands

Traffic streams all day long with

Polite sunshine no honking horns

A westward argument wins

More narratives of high rise

Living spaces stepping up to sky

In tiny spaces of ascensions

Where modern living is easy

A magnetic pull secures

Opposites attract 

The market places 

Where lettuce and tomatoes

Absorb  disciplined spaces

Sunrise escapades with

Early morning bird whistles

And cloud fancies

Prophecy of  actions casual

To everyday necessities

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MTB: Five Leavings from Home

Challenge ...

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[Design for a Tapestry Art Print by Joan Miró]

 How Wonderousq

Assuming sunrise is diligent,

And birdsongs causally rehearsed,

The pleasant morning scheduled,

Can never dissapoint those clouds,

Held there in maplike sequences

A jet plane and its passengers,

Held there in secured suspension,

Follows the paths of rightful sky,

Adopted for moving through air and time

Arrival in good timing,

Is foremost on the minds,

Of these temporary early sky dwellers,

High up above in the heavens,

Them above and clouds below,

How wonderous life is at times.

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 Poetics: Adagio for Strings 

Challenge ...Write a poem that does one of the following:

Expresses your thoughts and feelings on listening to this piece of music.

Describes the music in words.

Explores the music through imaginative imagery or storytelling.

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[The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave; from google]

Word From The Sage

 Ah, but the Starpainters are taking over now, you have nothing to worry about, said the  wise old sage to the group huddled together in the dark cave, for months now.

He knew by instinct,  and innate sage wisdom, the time to venture out had come. It was time to face the night sky, to smile with the moon, to slumber, be refreshed, rise and enter a new day

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Prosery: Tribute to Gordon Downie

Using the line

The Starpainters are taking over now

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[photo courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

However Love

The bamboo patch was their backdrop,

He swore he adored her,

She was a bit skeptical,

However,

She let him kiss her hand,

The flowers were fresh and perfumed,

Tied in a pretty bouquet,

She didn't expect this gift,

He thought she deserved it,

Sweetly sang birds,

In the plum blossom.

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[quote courtesy dVerse Poets Pub]

 Life Lessons

Seconds, minutes, hours,

They dance their choreography,

Now you try it,

And; one, two, three,

Plié, relevé, plié.

Some of us capsize

At the last plié,

Some of us never rose

At the relevé,

Life is like that,

A strict harsh teacher,

Never stopping to cuddle,

Ever shouting the instructions,

To rise, drop, rise again.

At the relevé,

You should breathe,

That's you cuddling you,

Or you'll stay capsized,

On the floor.

The rhythm is:

One, two, three,

Plié, relevé, plié,

Gracefully, now.

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Poetics Tuesday: To ma’am/sir…

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[image courtesy dVerse poet's Pub]

Xenolith Silly

Xenolith

Xenolith

Where art thou, without a wit

Xenolith

Xenolith

I thought i heard a bird, a twit

Xenolith

Xenolith

Come now say you'd sit with it 

Xenolith

Xenolith

A rock a sediment to wit

Oh Xenolith

Truly you are it ,

You are it.

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Quadrille #255: X marks the spot

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[Apple of discord by Ramaz Razmadze 2002 from google]

 Buenos dias,

When did night creep in

Like a stallion's gallop,

Hope can swim too,

Even if butterflies are end product,

Run run skip hop jump,

The reason romance fails is,

The heart always never  wins,

Where goes greed?

Tomorrow,

To another man's party.

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  Poetry Form: Descort 

Descort - a poem of deliberate difference

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