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the syrphid

April 12, 2022 by Dale Leave a Comment

Macro of a hover fly

Hover with beating wings flower lover Fleeting with iridescent light meeting Reminiscent the wasp, feeding self-sufficient Stops upon a wild rose buzz your hosp Nose deep in dusted pollen your clothes Fallen seraphim cast away foreign Steam the rim of summer’s cream Skim the sunshine of golden trim Mine the sugary of floral wine Fly…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2022, Insect, Macro, Nature, Poetry, Writes Tagged With: flower, GloPoWriMo, hover fly, Poem, small, syrphid, tiny

Sex upon a Vine

April 24, 2020 by Dale Leave a Comment

Seed of my hands Red fruit of my toil A child of my lands Umami bred of soil A poison apple forbidden flesh a stained chapel in wedding dress Woven heirloom culinary ring born of June bloom my pasta’s king You’re sugar and sweet gob smacked bitter acid in mince meat sour before the heat…

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Filed Under: Fruit, Garden/Vegetables, GloPoWriMo2020, Macro, Poetry, Shoots, Writes Tagged With: fruit, GloPoWriMo, Love, ode, Poem, tomato

i see

April 22, 2019 by Dale Leave a Comment

i see — with the light with each season and my mood, i see differently — my eyes change with the afternoon with the wane of the sun the see a shimmer of skin in the shadows of a a candle my eyes alight inside the twisting fire but in a lens they blink and…

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Filed Under: Flower, GloPoWriMo (2019), Macro, Nature, Poetry, Writes Tagged With: Art, crocus, eye, GloPoWriMo, macro, NaPoWriMo_2019, nature, Photography, Poetry, see

Rise Once Again

April 13, 2017 by Dale 1 Comment

Iris Surprise

Birth bountiful beauty – rise once again lift death from desiccated innocence Purple pastel petals – rise once again peel perfect light, a luminescent life Poems in passion ink – rise once again love letters crumpled in a perfume box Wish I might, pray I will – rise once again release whispered blessings into blue…

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Filed Under: Flower, Macro, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: death, dried flower, Easter, ghazal, iris, life, Love, NaPoWriMo2017, purple, Resurection, Rise, surprise, takhallus, Weekly Photo Challenge

Seasons Still

April 4, 2017 by Dale 2 Comments

Enigmatic Tullip

Warm – reflections – crystals in the sun Death – life – seasons still.     ∞ Submitted as part of “National Poetry Writing Month – 2017” (#NaPoWriMo2017).  Today’s prompt:  write a poem with a secret – in other words, a poem with a word or idea or line that it isn’t expressing directly. The…

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Filed Under: Flower, Macro, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: enigma, flower, macro, NaPoWriMo2017, Poem, seasons

Sunrise Upon a Hull

March 29, 2017 by Dale 4 Comments

Sunset In Ship's Cracks

Sun sets upon the Shipyard cracks The horizon Painted on in layers Weathered By storms and brine Peeling the crust From atop the snow Life is an iron Skeleton beneath Penetrating history Rusted gold Bleeds from background I touch the bark Of a dry-docked hull And the earth Falls in flakes to the ground And…

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Filed Under: Macro, Objects, Odd Balls, Poetry, Writes Tagged With: crack, Decay, horizon, Hull, macro, Oddball, Paint, Poetry, rust, ship, snow, Sunrise, sunset

Green is the Colour of Orange

March 23, 2017 by Dale 10 Comments

Green Mandarin

Sphere of vital green Single segments held as one Orange with sun’s kiss.” All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “It IS Easy Being Green.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.

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Filed Under: Flora, Fruit, Haiku, Macro, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: fruit, green, Haiku, macro, mandarin, orange, Photo, ripe, Seville, Spain, Weekly Photo Challenge

Salt of My Earth

November 15, 2016 by Dale 1 Comment

I lay my heart deep in the earth formed in the hot press of your arms your tears the rivers of veins. I gush with your sadness but I am given life by your joy tasting life’s passions in each season. Trodden underfoot, a desert dies, seeking an oasis in a mirage of plenty a…

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Filed Under: Macro, Nature, Poetry, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Añana Salt Valley, Basque, Crystal, fleur de sel, Love, macro, Photo, Poetry, Salinas de Añana, Salt, salt of the earth, Spain, tiny, Weekly Photo Challenge

Heirloom

August 23, 2016 by Dale 6 Comments

Portal to our past Tomato Inheritance Indeterminate.”   Gorgeous and fully ripe, this is one of the newest beauties from my heirloom tomato garden: a “Russian Cossack.” An indeterminate tomato, it falls between a salad and beefsteak depending on the actual tomato and with a beautiful green-gold stripe against the orange/red skin, the tomato is…

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Filed Under: Flora, Garden/Vegetables, Haiku, Macro, Nature, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: garden, green, Haiku, heirloom, macro, Photograph, rare, Red, Russian Cossack, tomato, Weekly Photo Challenge

Rarities and Roof-sides

August 21, 2016 by Dale 8 Comments

Rarities perched upon a rooftop Chance caught in Fortune Bay Hanging by my feet over an afternoon A moment earned upon cedar shingles Magic in macro, lipstick on life A sage forest, a bright fairyland.” What wonders grow in places we never think to look. Hanging off the railing of a 100 year-old turreted inn,…

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Filed Under: Flora, Macro, Poetry, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Bay Fortune, lichen, moss, Poem, Prince Edward Island, rare, roof, shingle, Weekly Photo Challenge

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30 Poems in 30 Days – Global Poetry Writing Month (2022)

  • A Love Song

    A Love Song
  • Chosen

    Chosen
  • Wormwood

    Wormwood
  • Bashert

    Bashert
  • Lumber Dog

    Lumber Dog
  • Aisling for the Land

    Aisling for the Land
  • Hard Boiled Boy

    Hard Boiled Boy
  • The Blasted

    The Blasted
  • Sense of Time

    Sense of Time
  • We Reflect

    We Reflect
  • A Family Grown

    A Family Grown
  • Fly — Away

    Fly — Away
  • Curtains

    Curtains
  • A Question Heard

    A Question Heard
  • The Storm

    The Storm
  • A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom

    A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom
  • Bun in the Oven

    Bun in the Oven
  • The world don’t owe you nothing

    The world don’t owe you nothing
  • the syrphid

    the syrphid
  • Osborne

    Osborne
  • Love is not a Word

    Love is not a Word
  • Meta

    Meta
  • Super-Pop

    Super-Pop
  • footprints on the sands of time

    footprints on the sands of time
  • Spring Grows

    Spring Grows
  • Neptune’s Recline

    Neptune’s Recline
  • Red Light, Green Light, Stop

    Red Light, Green Light, Stop
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights
  • Afterwinter

    Afterwinter
  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog

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