Posted tagged ‘Friday Flash 55’

What Sometimes Happens to Writers/Readers – Flash Friday 55

October 31, 2013

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What Sometimes Happens To Writers/Readers

One dives into the drown
of too-late, murk stretched
as longing as the I can see–

Notted growths choke stroke.
Still–as if time could be unhanded, sands
listen, effort alone mangle
the foregone–
one pushes
until despair bears words
that carry the oxygen
of their own utterance;
short breaths and
possible is again.

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Yes, I am trying not to blog and work on other things–but I couldn’t resist the call of the G-man.  I thought this also fit with Anna Montgomery’s challenge on dVerse Poets Pub to write something avant garde. I don’t think it is terribly avant garde, but the word usage is unusual for me.   Photo is weird pic of mine–not quite right for poem, but just one I liked.  (As always, all rights reserved.)

Born in the Fifties (In June)–Friday Flash 55

October 25, 2013

My Mom's Favorite Flower

 

Born in the Fifties (In June)

Important to pirouette
a squeezed radius, cinch waist.

June made fitting include favoriting
pearls/roses, merchant-determined
birth flower/stone–
what people were supposed to give you
special; what you were supposed to be
special–
Impossible to imagine either
born of grit; harder
to push from
shell/bud/whorl
into dirt freshness, taking
deep breadths.

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Here’s an almost belated draftish sort of poem for the G-Man –go tell him so he believes I made it in time–and also for a prompt of Kerry O’Connor on With Real Toads to write about the language of flowers.

Love Poem In 55 (and on a Friday) (and finding peace)

September 20, 2013

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Love Poem

Forget about supportive.
You make collapse possible,
disintegration a reasonable
alternative, falling to pieces
a waystation, respite.

I don’t know about safety
in numbers; I’m sure of only one
port in a storm.

The well of your chest smells
of fleur de sel, and carries a kiln
that fires all clay new.
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Here’s a nearly belated 55 for the lovely G-man.    I am also posting for the  dVerse Poets Pub Poetics prompt re peace, hosted by Mary Kling. 

Note – the picture above is not of my dear husband.  For one thing, when he wears a tie, he tends also to wear a jacket.    

 

In the Night Kitchen (With Broom)

September 14, 2013

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In the Night Kitchen (With Broom)

I sweep the kitchen floor nights,
light as dim as brain, and think
in the quiet swish
how lucky that it’s just detritus
(sweep sweep)
I rearrange,
the letters like me, myself–anyone–
swept so easily in the big
back-and-forth
into weeps weeps weeps,
wishes
dust-jumbled–
how wonderful
to be just
sweeping–

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Here’s a one-day belated Friday Flash 55 posted for the G-Man. Tell him it got lost in the mail.  I am also linking this with dVerse Poets Pub Poetics prompt posted by Shanyn; the prompt deals with using a familiar phrase.  I’m not sure this is quite right for the prompt, but in my case, the phrase would be the title derived from the wonderful Maurice Sendak.

Red Lines (A Riddle Poem)

September 6, 2013

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Red Lines

In nature,
they tend to zag–
gob, dribble,
snagging even flattened grass
as the animal still
flees, wounded.

Crest a bird’s
head, or rim
with worried crimson
its unsyncopated
blink.

Pinpoint
petals.

Sometimes work
their iron will upon the ground,
ore masquerading
as mineralized sunset, blood.

Where man’s will is
involved,
make
for fresh blood.

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Here’s a “riddle” poem with the answer in the title for Samuel Peralta’s dVerse Poets Pub Prompt. It also has exactly 55 words, minus the title, so please do tell it to the G-Man.

On the political point, I know the questions involved do pose a riddle.  I personally don’t think that they can be solved by bombing.

The above (blurry) photo is one I took of a ring-necked pheasant, which has a white line around its neck but red circles rimming its eyes.  They are among my favorite red lines.

PS – I am slated to host dVerse Poetics tomorrow so “remember” to save the date!

Fall Read (Flash 55)

August 29, 2013

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Fall Read

I red fall in the air;
I red fall on the road;
then red fall in the falling light
that evening early turned to night.

The grey before the indigo,
which last June red so very slow
blue by as fast as summer passed,
leaving leaving;
in dark of air and road
I hurried home.

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I post the above kind of drafty poem for Galen the Great, otherwise known as the G-Man –Tell him I whittled it down to exactly 55 words!

All rights reserved for text as always and photos.

Dream Dream Resolution (Friday Flash 55)

August 22, 2013

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Dream Dream Resolution

Nights on end, he ran beside a horse around a walled
city–Carcassonne–until, through therapy, he willed himself
to mount the horse,
alighting not on its back
but in its nostril, where whorl-curled,
he rode readily
through dark gates.

He never dreamed that scene again,
though often spoke of it
with great longing.

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I’m back! (Sort of.) And it feels good! Just getting through a terribly busy time but could not resist either the call of Brian Miller (Happy Birthday Brian!) of dVerse Poets Pub or the the inimitable G-Man, each of whom asks us to tell a story in 55 words. (Let them know I’ve tried.)

Poet’s Really Bad Headache – Friday Flash 55

July 19, 2013

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Poet’s Really Bad Headache

The word “vertigo’s” not apt.
You can’t go vertical; you can’t go anywhere
except into absolute stillness.  Compensating
for the spin.

Movement allowed – the swollen beading of brain, sweat, finger tips.

One droplet tells you that your sonnet
(written before full cloud)
has only thirteen lines.

Ha, you sort of think.  Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha

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Mid-morning I was hit by a just super head-ache/vertigo/inner ear thing.  So, like any good blogger, I am telling you all about it now that I feel well enough to sit up and type.  Still not 100% but infinitely better.  Tell it to the wonderful G-Man.

And I’m sorry = I realize the sonnet I posted just before headache struck really did only have thirteen lines.  I am blaming on the “aura” and am going to try to fix it and post again.  But probably not today.

P.S. – I’m sorry I’ve not been able to return visits – also tried to work today (on phone as much as possible).  Will try to make it up tomorrow.  Many thanks as always for your kindness. 

Why Are Some – Rhapsodic (Maybe) Flash 55 (Um….)

July 12, 2013

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Why are some….

so imprinted
with insufficiency; souls
lost fowl, cross-hatched between
chicken scratch and duck
waddle, the self-appointed undeserving, serving
an exacting God whom we carry in our foreheads
as an ache.

How escape?
In the ta-Dada of rhapsody,
chance of dance,
deep swallow;
through the reverse blink
of fireflies, pilots in night’s
blue sea.

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This is another version of my Post-Eden II poem posted yesterday, written for Kerry O’Connor’s prompt on With Real Toads re Rhapsody, and for the G-Man – Friday Flash 55 – do not tell him I cheated by calling the first three words my title.  

(For those interested in process, the initial version of the poem called “insufficiency”  “original sin” but I realize many people are not so involved with the concept of original sin these days – probably a good thing .  Besides, it is two words.)  

55 Words–ahem–Weeds for the G-man.

May 10, 2013

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By my faltering count.  Let him know.

And have a wild weekend.