Backyard

It’s enough to run side to side

In five minutes, twist and run it again

My brother and I, racing

From the back of the house

To the corner of the chain link fence

Turn again to our world

Where a yellow lab barks

And robins flutter up from the trees

And robot overlords come crashing down

In world domination

Until they meet the heroes – us

Also

Where I mow on Saturdays

Rack leaves in fall

Climb the lone tree

After the peaches on the top branch

Enough space in the world

For everything

Written for dVerse

In the Night

Even on a moonless night

When skyward turned in occhiolism

At the wideness of the dark

The greatness of the void

Stars still whisper light

Across the centuries

And hope

Electrons through the night

Occhiolism - Defined by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective. (Click on the link and it has a whole paragraph for a definition!)

To electron - Defined by me as: To penetrate the essence of everything.

Written for dVerse.

The Dragon

The dragon’s tail curls in a knot

Around its victims securely caught

While the knight rides tantivy so high

Up the steep mountain road to the sky

No thought of stopping ’til the battle is done

And she has rescued the captives every one

Written for d'Verse.