Thursday, February 29, 2024

1150

 [photo courtesy Michelle Beauchamp at dVerse Poets Pub]


Everyday A Possibility

Life without regret

Opens the living to better futures;

Hope is not a resting place,

but a starting point - a cactus,

not a cushion, which encourages couch potatoes to rest on laurels;

No! hope can take wings

In flights of imagination,

Acting out hunches 

Much like the poet, molding words

Into tangible responses to

Everyday possibilities 

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Today's mini prompt
Consider these lines of wisdom by American author, H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Be a cactus in a world of delicate flowers.”

“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.”

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

1149

 [Bing AI generated image]

Just A Leaping Nonsense

A frog leaps into a pond

There is a splash

Significant enough to found

A poem so small in a flash

Haiku of Basho

Oh oh oh

Oh oh oh

When it is hot so

Hot you really want to make a dash

Save a notebook that was found

Or make potatoes into a mash

A poem leaps into a pond

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Monday, February 26, 2024

1148

 [image from google]


We here in Trinidad and Tobago are experiencing our Dry Season one of the two climatic seasons prescribed to us.

Dry Season is a boon for the carnival minded. All that sun adds sparkle to glitter and shimmer of costumes. And gives valid excuse to peel down and revel on carnival days.

And after the carnival bacchanal the cool-down on beaches, but preferably under a beach umbrella.

While the more penitent fast and abstain in Lenten style.

Yesterday it rained and rained. A sudden outburst from a cumulus happy sky. Happens.


from rain-soaked sky

February moon sails in -

before night lamps light

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Monday, February 19, 2024

1147

image from pinterest

 A touch of sunshine

A dash of azure

This poem wanders into

A bright day


Eyes are viewing

The same scenes as yesterday

Only one bird led the chorus

At daybreak shrill and right 


What of sunset

Will there be a touch of gold

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

1146

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This is what i read at the live meeting this Saturday  

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

1145

 I used a grackle image from google to compose this image at picsart ©gillenacox2024


the carnival is over


loud music

no longer harangues

the  neighbourhood


no lilacs here but 

a grackle  on my wall has its say

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##TODAY'S POEM IS A CHERITA...no title, verses: i line .3 lines. 2lines. .presented in lowercase.


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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

1144

 Words On A Wall At A Ruins

Once; when the world danced

In riots joy

A feathered headdress lurked

Waiting to hurl a signal

The way a drum throbs

Life into meaningful dreams

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#fiction #ficticious place

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