Jellyfish

Jellyfish floating by
Like mushrooms
Pulsing with the ocean currents
Pale blobs that horrify
With long plumes
Trailing like fluorescent serpents

Looking Ahead

Away in the distance
The path curves
Bending round the pines out of sight
I’ll only walk it once
With braced nerves
Yet ready for the mountain’s height



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Prompt: Distance.

Rose Bower

 Within the rose bower

white rosebuds

tinged with pink hang heavy and sweet

swelling every hour

like a flood

more roses than the eye can greet

Clowder Trio

Super Cat

ink

pawed

tail-dipped

Siamese

donning shrouding mask

dashing through the night fighting crime

Calico Cat

sweet tri-colored cat

still purring

content to claim your lawful right

gourmet feasts, friendly pats

and keeping

all joys that fall within your sight

 

Book Cat

tiny kitten in the bookcase

cavorting between the manuals

keeping gleaming tomes in their place

for she’s the librarian here

she knows each volume purrfectly

from the ones that make her castle

to the ones where she naps with glee

for she’s the librarian here

peeking out from behind the shelf

batting hands to fruitful titles

she is as helpful as an elf

for she’s the librarian here

curled up soundly in the archive

bewhiskered Queen of the novels

presiding as books come alive

for she’s the librarian here

A clowder is a group of cats.

Tie Up a Posy

pocket full of posy
written words
carefully chiseled thought by thought
some raspy some rosy
configured
and then placed polished in its spot

A posy is a small bouquet or a short verse.



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Spring Rain

silver droplets glazing
apple buds
tightly folded; into jewels
pearls and diamonds sparkling
like soapsuds
ephemeral spring molecules

Through the Portal

 

for dVerse

like a bright fantasy

shimmering

hazy veil of mirrored pool

distorts reality

entering

dreams of radiant fairy rule