My poetry is often personal to me, whereas my prose tends to be on the fantastical side. This one is FREE so I'd be absolutely chuffed if my fellow writers and poets gave it a read and a comment.
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Happy #WordyWednesday! Here's a silly poem about medication- which, as a chronic illness girlie, I have plenty of! Enjoy!
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sometimes, I’d get lucky
capture two at once
but it was mostly slow-going
then I closed the hall light
and repeated the task
in the bedroom claimed
by the small boy
and closed the door behind myself
I couldn’t relocate them all
but the boy slept
5/5
#dailyhaikuprompt #poem #freeformpoem |moth|
the moths know what to do
they come to the light
and I grab each one
and fling it out the window
I trap them one-by-one
and feel the flapping wings
against my palms
then run down steps
and throw my prisoner skyward
4/5
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unnerved tears start
from the child who cannot sleep even at home
in the presence of such critters
(to say nothing of spiders and flies)
I close all the windows
except in the stairwell
I shut all the lights but for that chandelier
3/4
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children explore
and find them first
the air indoors is fresh
ocean-washed and cool
but moths cluster in the stairwell
flutter around the chandelier
and anxious children
eye the winged insects
flattened against
bedroom walls
2/4
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we arrive
at the beach house
lit by a late sunset
we arrive
at dusk
not before the moths entered
screen-less windows
left open by well-meaning cleaners
my husband and I unload
deposit groceries in the kitchen
suitcases in the hall
1/4
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beside the pool
two black birds—
a native crow and an African refugee—
supervise the reflection
of a giraffe
calmly peeling the leaves
from a branch
with its long tongue
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EXTRA #NPM25 #poem. And it is another 'definitions manifestations translations transmissions' called "transmissions: positive negatives." #freeform #freeformpoem #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #npm #shortpoem #shortpoetry
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A squirrel’s full cache of nuts is abundance,
but there is never _enough_ rain.
Feast or famine—but deluge, drought.
Dry month’s relief comes,
passing through quenched
to excess.
Gutters flood.
Seeds float to surface.
Fill a barrel or drown.
#dailyhaikuprompt #poem #freeformpoem |feast|
have some poetry i wrote a while ago !!...
and a pukeko
(the lil handle at the bottom is my insta acc)
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