Insomnious Shipwreck

Photo by Olga Tsai on Unsplash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glimmering licorice waves
Cover the sun in sleep
Unveiling midnight enclaves
And the secrets they keep

Here an insomnious shipwreck
Groans for a guiding star
Fish darting over the deck,
While ghosts look after the sandbar

Where starfish sparkle mid
Night and concealing surf

 

 Written both for dVerse's Quadrille and Compound Challenge

Paper

Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here it is so clear and white
Patiently waiting for any bright
Scintillating words to tumble out
(Grubby words would do
If they’d only come in a slew)
And take root and sprout
With inky tendrils on the paper
Instead, they vanish like vapor

 

Written for dVerse.

 

 

Vie

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.