B is 4

B is for birthday cake and
Brian EVERywhere
A virtual comment ninja
He must warp time
It's the only way he could be
At every website I see
EVery singLe One
Faster than a speeding mouse
Click, he's there
Able to write every day
And visit everyone too
It's magic, it's talent
And I thank you

It's Brian's birthday dversepoets.com and he challenged us to write a 55 word story/poem. I think this is more like a greeting card... it's the thought that counts right?

Cut Outs

At dusk
Shoulders pressed against
The creased bark of an oak tree
We
Become a singularity
No longer 3D
Simple cut outs
Against the sky
Arms branching
Toes rooted
In the softness
Of the night

This is offered for OLN at dversepoets.com.  My science background won't let me just leave the misuse of singularity alone.. It was a fun word to play with, as in "becoming one with the tree"..clearly not really a singularity ;-)    Inspired by warm summer nights when you notice how the light can shift reality. :-)

Sweet Nothings

Billions of voices
Rise into the stratosphere
Yet in that thin air
They all disappear
The cries, speeches,
Laughter, shrieks
Stretch, flatten into
Mere wisps floating in
The abyss of dark space
Perhaps a star or comet
Might snag a vowel
Or consonant and keep it
Hanging by its stem or
Snuggled in its orbit
Humming sweet nothings
In harmony
With the uni-verse

A poem prompted by Mary's invitation at Poetry Jam poetryjaam.blogspot.com to write a poem inspired by Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" a song that has always inspired me with it's amazing words "like silent raindrops fell"  but always left me with a sense of deep sadness "ten thousand people...people writing songs that voices never shared..."   So, started in one direction ended up in another...:-)  Enjoy!

Some Days I just Wonder

Wonderwoman!

Able to jump three weeks of laundry

In a single bound

Grocery shop, make meals

And scream without a sound

Help with homework

Help find sneakers

Help clean messes

Help wipe tears

Help at school

And Help keep peace

Won't someone

Help her, please?

For Poetry Jam at poetryjaam.blogspot.com, Brian asked us to write about a superhero—flashed back to when the kids were small and my man and I were working 60 hours, barely finding time to breathe. Plus, I've always loved that name “Wonderwoman” :-)

Sky Secrets

The sky split
And spilt
All the secret flavors
It had been holding
Flowing
Streams of peach, tangerine
Persimmon
Across the hori(sun)
Then released a golden glowing drop
Of honey
That splashed into the sea
Leaving a rosy sky
Lavender clouds
And the taste of delight
On our tongues

Hope y'all aren't tired of sunsets ;-)--this was another prompt from the beach inspired month at Poetic Bloomings to write about a sunset.  Also shared with OLN at dversepoets.com where the sun never sets ...both photos are by yours truly, feel free to share

The Spaces Inbetween

Paint me a mosaic
Shadowed wavelets in a row
In the spaces inbetween
The sun's afterglow
Make it molten flow-
ing
Copper, silver sheet
Then slip it here
Inside my heart
Where it can softly
Beat

This is offered for Poets United Poetry Pantry poetryblogroll.blogspot.com where I swim with and am inspired by my fellow poets, and Poetic Bloomings prompt of "waves" a month of beach related poems, come splash around :-)  PS I took the photo on an evening in Florida Bay, loved the patterns and molten feel of it

Mr. Hot Stuff

Half-closed eyes

See me, sear me

Then the walk

Samba slide

Confident glide

Makes me too hot

To be quenched by anything

But a cool dip into you

Peggy at Poetry Jam poetryjaam.blogspot.com asked us to write about something hot.  Summer here is inspiration enough, but a recent trip to Napa with my husband won out...happy weekend everyone!