Photo: Smadar Epshtein
Silly Billy was too chilly
So he too a little nap.
Silly Billy did not really
Think it would cause him mishap.
Frilly Tilly woke him shrilly
And with very little slack,
Sent him home and told poor Billy
That he isn’t welcome back.
For the dVerse poetry quadrille challenge: silly
Note: I find this photo too delightful to use only once… So if you think you’d seen it before, you are not imagining things … 🙂
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She refused to stop her fretting.
He could not get her
To relax.
She was adamant the world
Was ending,
That they were about to breathe
Their last.
Nothing he did could
Distract her.
Not the honey.
Not the charm.
She was frazzled,
And he should have known
To not try
Bedazzling
To disarm.
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Listen
To the tune
Sung by
Leaves
As they
Grow.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Tune in 10 words
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Where waters tide
‘Round canyons
Carved by time
And ice,
Other canyons
Rise
Man-made
To tickle skies.
Where greenery
Respite to
Millions
Provides,
Sleep memories
Of others
Who used to there
Reside.
Where footfalls mask
The horns of cars
And rustles hold
More sway,
There breathes the city
That like me
Many call home
Today.
For the dVerse challenge: take me with you
Photo: jurien huggins on Unsplash
She would give him no quarter.
Heed no pleas or demands.
He will have to obey.
It was how it was done.
No experience? No matter.
He will not fall
Behind!
First the tasks,
Then the chores
And more lessons to mind.
Math and science
Books and rhymes.
This was school,
Not play time!
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To be home
Where the sun kisses
Blooms
On the sly,
And the buildings cannot
Hide reflections
Of sky,
Where new life bursts on forth
Undeterred
Joy unmasked,
And this moment
Outdoors
Is almost all one
Can ask.
For the Lens-Artists Challenge: at home
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
On this Earth Day
As we are all
One,
Cooped in
Holding on,
Blue around the fingertips
Blue around the lips,
Blue in oceans, and
In the reflections of the deep,
Blue in sorrow
Blue as sky lift
Dark sapphire
To the reified aqua
Of hope.
May we rise
Like the sun,
And not forget how
We can
Help each other
Cope.
For Terri’s SundayStills: Earth
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Sunshine above
Tasty gold below.
A horse in a city field
Is contentment aglow.
Photographed worlds away
And a mere year ago.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Animals
Photo: alexandra lammerink on Unsplash
She did not know how
To have her heart
Be known,
Other than to
Let her spirit
Be flush with
Hope,
And to allow her
Soul to
Blush bright
With the
Intent,
Even if
Her words paused,
Timid,
From the moment
She’d left
Home.
For the dVerse quadrille poetry challenge: flush
Photo: Jorge Lopez on Unsplash
“I am not,” she insisted,
“Obsolete.
Or not yet.
Not as long as I can
Vote,
And thus
Use my
Voice,
To oust threat.”
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Challenge: Obsolete in 24 words
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