v.1 Sun Beam Bursting Open door Ingested puzzle Pollinated aponia. v.2 Sun Burst Banquet Cryptograph Measures golden feet Unlocks Nature’s woven treasure. v.3 Life Seeds Counted Prearranged Honeyed sunbeam Crumbled into a dusted feast. ∞ Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo). Today’s prompt: Day Seven: “Of the poetic forms…
Sex upon a Vine
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…
i see
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…
I Hear Your Call
I hear your call — beneath pink blossoms I fell in love among your pollen listening to your voice singing You belong among the wildflowers you pressed into your longing face you closed your eyes inhaled the fragrance we shared — I whispered back behind a hidden tree I have seen no other Who compares…
Rise Once Again
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…
fortune’s choice
honour honour from a sadness drowned the fortune’s choice drink drink of redemption’s tears the shadow’s light hold hold onto the spindle’s prick the satin drape cherish cherish of wishes cast the cloven past gaze gaze into a future dark the crystal bright take take with bones bleached life the hope chest filled kiss kiss…
Seasons Still
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…
Dense
It was our honeymoon — but in this case, it wasn’t the honey of the moon we sought. It was the elixir of the sun which drew us to Spain and to the Rioja. Landing in the land of wine, we took our accommodation in a history-drenched Parador in Santo Domingo de la Calzada —…
Green is the Colour of Orange
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.
Heirloom
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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