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| Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash |
Dragonflies supply vat dye,
Whereby tie dye neckties
Dandify shy magpies,
Defying sly butterflies
Plying fluorescent dye,
Applied on bow ties.
Thereby war cries zip by,
Spry allies stand by.
Nearby, horrified walleyes
Clarify, rectify, pacify.
By and by, mollified spies
Buy shoofly pie.
Written for dVerse.
Walleyes are a type of fish. Shoofly Pie is a pie made with molasses.
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| Claude Monet, Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son |
Sun-soaked grasses tangle
With mottled teal blades
Frolicking all together
While buttercups gambol
Startled skirts skitter
Twist this way and that
Folding between blues
Dipping in purple and white
The jade parasol pines
For a place in the sky
Canopy spread wide
Bobbing like a buoy
Rippling clouds gleam
Rich with silver and pearl
Rolling in summer waves
Rollicking across the sun
So the breezes twirl
Whisking through clover
Puffs of ivory and cornflower
Fluttering with the wind
Written for dVerse.
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| Photo by Mel Poole on Unsplash |
This fated reel I hold within my hand,
spins once; spins twice; spins thrice; and then again.
Counting out the measure of a life;
the destinies of every living soul.
Whether they be of plenty or of dearth,
tears amid treasure or laughter with lack;
all these, contained within the thread I ply,
come to every mortal both small and great.
I am not moved by reproof or censure,
nor yet by praise or sumptuous libation.
This alone I offer; my only view:
though sorrow aches, it flees; but joy endures.
Clotho is one of the Three Fates of Greek Mythology.
Written for dVerse.