(Photo: Stéphane Juban on Unsplash)
When the cold gripped hard
And pulled life from the sinews
Of the earth,
And when the wind screamed wild
Among the emptied branches
Overhead,
She’d seek the warm embrace
Of the inglenook’s fireplace
And write a book
Of summer’s heat
Inside her
Head.
For the dVerse quadrille poetry challenge: Inglenook
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When all was said and done,
There was no question
Of whether or when
Or why,
She would be expected
To abide by all
The rules they had
Intended to
Apply.
The law was set.
The outcome clear.
She was to follow
And adhere.
For the dVerse quadrille poetry challenge: abide
Photo: Smadar Epshtein
“What does happiness mean,” she asked,
Her eyes round with the query
Of the lost
Awaiting to be
Found.
“It is the sun warming your skin,” he said,
His own eyes taking on the mist.
“And the unexpected sweetness
Of cherries on your
Tongue.”
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: Happiness
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She could not help the pull of lore
And hopes that drew on her
Heart like a magnet right into
The polar
Opposite of what
She had been raised to
Know and
Want.
For how could she possibly
Be anything but
What she
Was?
For the dVerse quadrille poetry challenge
Photo: Peter Oslanec on Unsplash
The voice of song
Lulled her to sleep
As wind whispered
Leaves into heaps.
Her mind soared on
A night’s journey’s sweep
As breathing slowed
And memories steeped.
Her body warm neath
Blankets soft and deep,
She sighed and found
A dream to keep.
For the dVerse poetry quadrille challenge: blanket
They rose in steady hum of
Motors aiming to break
Clouds
And dispersed the waves upon the
Sand as life skittered
Aground.
They pointed nose into the
Sky with souls holding on well
And fast
As engines revved anew
And headed home
At last.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: sky
Photo by Eric Muhr on Unsplash
She was not a country bumpkin
Though she aspired to
Be one.
So she dressed the part
And practiced
How to walk and talk
In twang,
And she hoped to look
Uncultured
To the folk stopping
In store,
So they’d believe
She was
Hardcore.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: bum
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She walked along the beds,
Hands trailing over stakes
Heavy with vines
And sugar snaps.
Orange peeked
From underneath green hats
Far too wild for small heads.
Blushing tomatoes danced
Cheek to cheek
With peppers.
She smiled.
The garden will make
Good salad
Tonight.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge
Photo: Andrey Grinkevich on Unsplash
There would be no smooth solutions
No easy way to extract
Themselves
From the tangle
They had let grow
All around them.
Only one way out was left:
Through the bramble,
Through the sorrow
Through the scars that would
Need nursing
Back to truth.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: Bramble
Photo: Sean Stratton on Unsplash
She knew
She was due
For some blue.
She felt the tug,
The subtle hue,
Sliding her joy askew.
A clue
For what the next step
Would do.
The polar opposites
That made her into
Two.
Her mood on queue
For an internal coup.
For the dVerse Quadrille challenge: Blue
Note: Dedicated to my friends who walk the tightrope of bipolar disorder. I don’t know what it is like to be you or what you go through, but I see you and hear you. You matter, complete with the ups and downs within you.
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