☮️ Poetry Thread 🌹

[ButtonHoarder]

That’s really creative! Post a pic of the cat.

Sorry, this is the only one of her I have on my computer

 

[electrycmonk]

Appreciated,
But, I must beg your pardon;
Apples and oranges.

This is not to say,
More prose to enjoy in here;
Overloaded now.....

 

[HawaiiCoyote]

This one is a bit long, I hope no one minds! It's a poem\story I wrote.

As my toes connect with the dirt, a droplet of hope gathers on the tip of my eyelashes.
A feeling of gratefulness as the drowsy wind carries me back to the sea, and when I open my eyes, I come face to face with the great turtle of life. The waters around me caress all of my worries, taking my unwanted thoughts to another world as the ocean slowly drains.
I sit on the dunes as the turtle pours me a cup of hot tea, but when I reach for my mug the tea disappears and so does the turtle of life. Left alone in the heat of a dead ocean, I sip on the sand and wait for a motion. Old man lizard emerges from below, with a gift in his mouth and a letter in his tote. When I unroll the paper, the sun tapers to the moon's favor and the moon speaks with a bold peak of colors in the desert night, as the stars shine their light into the cracks of this earth, as they heal the precious stone that was shattered at this planet's birth.
I watch the moon as it divides in two and then dips beyond the horizon. Seconds later the salty water starts to spew from the heart stone that is now good as new, so as I run from the waves, a seagull asks me if I need a lift, and we drift on the rift along the tops of the caves that surround our world that is draped in beige from the naked eyes first glance, but as you give into the trance colors swirl in the sky under the gull's wings as we fly. I'm dropped off at the spot where my toes connect with the earth, and it seems the droplet of hope was enough to fill the never-ending hearth.

 

[Sally PB]

Here's a flash fiction (100 words) story I wrote.
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“I thought we’d grow old together. I haven’t been the same since the accident.”

“You’re still my beautiful mate.”

“You don’t mind doing the things I used to do?”

“No. You don’t mind my dominance in our relationship now?”

“You never complained about my dominance before.”

“Because I always thought of you as my mirror.”

“Look at me now. Mangled, bent, broken. Old beyond my years.”

“I’ll be here for you until the end.”

Left hand stroked the knotted stubs of what remained of right hand’s fingers. Right hand snuggled under left’s warm palm. They sat together in the lap.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Here's another bad one:

Leaves
falling, swishing, swirling
dancing
lifting, twirling, whirling
singing
Skirts
falling, swishing, swirling
flowing
lifting, twirling, whirling
soaring
swish, swish, swish
musical
It carries, me
away
into, flight
harmoniously
​

(meant to be said fairly fast)

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Here's another bad one:

Leaves
falling, swishing, swirling
dancing
lifting, twirling, whirling
singing
Skirts
falling, swishing, swirling
flowing
lifting, twirling, whirling
soaring
swish, swish, swish
musical
It carries, me
away
into, flight
harmoniously
​

(meant to be said fairly fast)

I think it might sound a bit better without the swish, swish, swish part, but then it would need something in its place