#smittenbypoetrygame
Melatonin sets in
Like doves returning to nest
God sets them in motion
Circadian migration to circular paths
Not a musical but a solar dance
Blue orange black pink blue orange black
The moon and the sun choreograph
But why must we give the dark so many hours of ours?
Once I properly encounter Him I’ll ask
Why the rhythm of rest isn’t given the chance
To rest on an open eyed note through the night, once or twice
Without submitting eyes to substantial sacrifice
n.a.
Mondays keep coming
Even when the darling buds reopen
Per Shakespeare’s sonnet
Doomsday headlines hot off the press
Overdue library books stacking up
Forget-me-nots get pulverized
I wonder why I wonder so much
When it all seems a waste
I could close my eyes in a deep sleep
Alas I always eventually wake
Still there’s a break in drifting dreams
Irradiate me
Fuchsia you
A touch too much
Got down pat the part of Heathcliff
Still I will not be your Catherine
Lying in wait of your kiss to awaken
Ardor is best not underestimated
How would you like to be scared stiff?
Eggs must crack to bake a cake
Alas the blue gas flame loses oxygen
My time is better misspent
Redress
Dug out that dress–you know the one
I wore when we met, all eyeleted sunflowers
Swore I looked approachably sweet
Yet had your heart racing uncontrollably
Je ne sais quoi to buck the quotidian
An enchanting chance encounter
If only you unearthed the woman beneath
Took a dip beyond the shallow end
Peered past the Sunday-in-bed appeal
So I slip it on for me now, a better fit
More oomph than you’d know what to do with
There is some kind of magic on Sundays
during this Spring month, when showers fall,
further turning the bronze statues green
and helping the newly planted seedlings grow.
A perfect day to cuddle with a library book
and hope the sky clears once more.
I wonder if what remains of Spring shall be
this way, I hope so. There is beauty in gray.
But as I watch the wind blow the clouds away
and the sun throw rainbows thanks to a suncatcher,
I decide that is high time, for a chocolate bite.
April 2022 Recap:
@drabmeasure(poem)
@fantasmagorico(poem)
@delightsofmysoul (poem)
@whims-made-of-swept-sand(poem)
@cruxymox(poem)
@hopebe(poem)
@aubriestar(poem)
@songofsutarima(poem)
@jwjj420(poem)
@erosmoonlore(poem)
@wayward-birdie(poem)
@eighthseawritings (poem)
@loosebaresoul(poem)
@fille-de-joies(poem)
@lorienfae(poem)
@stained-glass-salamander(poem)(poem)
@r2poetry(poem)
@definegodliness(poem)
@wordrummager(poem)
@snipehuntpotatosack(poem)
@chucklingpecan(poem)
@betweenthetimeandsound(poem)
@rhyme-my-mind(poem)
@azukilynn(poem)
@petrow(poem)
@autumnsunshine10(poem)
@escapingthroughword(poem)
@unsentletterstotheworld(poem)
@bumble-pig(poem)
@jasongrabowski(poem)
@giraffevader(poem)
and a late entry for February’s prompt:
@onewhosenamewaswritwithwater(poem)
April’s prompt turned out particularly hard, so kudo’s to you all! Well done.
