Maya-be

Maybe
Age should not be measured in
Years, instead let's measure
Amounts of

Altruism
Never giving up
Giggles
Enthusiasm
Love
Open Armed Hugs and
Understanding


This is offered for Peggy's prompt at Poetry Jam poetryjaam.blogspot.com about age, and also a for Poets United poetryblogroll.blogspot.com, where Rosemary honored Maya--a little acrostic for Maya who was one for the ages, and who gave us all a shining example of what happens when (in her words) we encounter many defeats but are not defeated.  

Floral Floatillas

Creamy cups of
Petals poised on
Sepal pedestals
Ready to leave
Disem-
bark
From glossy green
Perches
On a windy whim
To sail
Southwesterly
Into a sea of grass

This is offered for OLN at dversepoets.com where Abhra has us writing about trees--I have tried for years to poetically capture this phenomenon--the Pond Apple trees that line the canals here, have lovely chinese lantern type blossoms (thank you to Serenity Spell at serenityspell.com for a great photo) that just drop from the trees into the canals, that flow to the Everglades (otherwise known as the sea of grass...)  finally came to me today, to cast them as ships...enjoy! :-)

Super Sighs Me

Splash some
Gold-
en
Glitter on me
And sea
Let tanger-
ine streak
And lavender play
Lay-
ers
Between a nimble cumulus
And horiz-
on
Fill sun
With de-
light
Expand to
Full width and height
Bright
Yellow balloon
On fire
In-
spire
Swell and exhale
'Cuz as you know

In this show
Sighs
Matter

Offered for Alan's prompt at poetryjaam.blogspot.com, to write about sunsets. One of my very favorite things!  Hope to add a photo later.  Happy Sunsets everyone :-)