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Generations

April 30, 2017 by Dale 5 Comments

Grandfather in uniform

Staring into faces I stand in the dark Of my parents’ room At the black and white Photos silently Paper tombstones line Thick dust silhouettes Names only spoken In stories of others Stories once taken Immigration there Just married right here Anniversaries Graduations once Off to war once more Suits ties shiny shoes Dresses Sunday…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, People, Poetry Tagged With: ancestor, black and white, Family, father, generations, histsory, identity, name, NaPoWriMo2017, Photograph, Poetry, soldier

Sunset

April 29, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

With the waning, the closing of the day I fight to hold onto the dying light Watching sun burn quiet into a star Strength fading from hot white to cold black night Lost in transformation, my faith is found In tranquil treasures of a changing sky Gradients radiance burst hopes aglow Rusted, reborn, recast, regenerates…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Sky, Sunset, Water Tagged With: blank verse, change, death, life, metamorphosis, NaPoWriMo2017, sunset, Tennyson, time, Transformation, transition, Ulysses

What Do You See?

April 28, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Dance your way up on the clay walk the day along what may colours fight the gray I can’t betray step don’t slip forget the trip lessons grip from a landing strip life flies above hand in glove talks the end of brotherly love one man’s roof someone’s proof a child sees a path a…

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Filed Under: Architecture, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: clay tile, dipodic, NaPoWriMo2017, perspective, Photography, Rhyme, roof, Rooftop, Skeltonic verse, Tumbling Verse

Ode to Beer

April 27, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

taste of beer

Quaffing a quince on golden shores a sunkist orange torn into spray citrus peels punch and pry fingers pressed in Nutella jar sipping freshly ground cappuccino coffee house cream stuck on lips grapefruit pith amber burns a Szechuan pepper full of earth spicy chilli pressed by sun mowed grass upon the dew pricking needles bark…

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Filed Under: Beer, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: beer, beer profiles, flavour, Hops, malts, NaPoWriMo2017, ode, Poetry, sense of taste, senses, taste

La Guardians

April 26, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Sun dried peppers in Laguardia

Captain’s Log: Day 3 on Iberian Peninsula surveying Alavesa vista vital atop rocky hill La Guardians seem afraid of valley below — warding off invading warriors with strings of red phallic fruit theirs is bigger than theirs paprika dusted on the breeze hotter than sun-seared cobblestones warriors of the lowlands seem to have an antidote…

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Filed Under: Architecture, Food, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Travel, Travel Tagged With: chilli, guardian, Laguardia, NaPoWriMo2017, observer, pepper, perspective, Poetry, Rioja Alavesa, Spain, sun-dried, tourist, watching

Tamam Shud

April 24, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Tamam Shud from rubaiyat of omar khayyam

Drink life past the final lees Play on fingers until they bleed Dine upon the empty bone Plant the earth unto the stone Catch an ending in the Grail Drink the well until its scale Fill fill fill over let it splash Keep me moist, keep me from the ash Make love through stars and…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: Carpe diem, drink, ekphrasis, end, ending, Illumination, Kelmscott Press, marginalia, NaPoWriMo2017, Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, tamam shud, William Morris

Fountain-head

April 23, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Fountain Head

Fountain-head waters arc Nasrid built symmetry white noise garden sanctuary blue. Tourist animating gazes watching upon belly moving mirror captures sky memories. ∞ Submitted as part of “National Poetry Writing Month – 2017” (#NaPoWriMo2017).  Today’s prompt: write a double elevenie. What’s that? Well, an elevenie is an eleven-word poem of five lines, with each line performing…

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Filed Under: Architecture, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Travel Tagged With: Alhambra, elevenie, Fountain, garden, NaPoWriMo2017, Photograph, Poem, tourist, Water

Our Garden

April 22, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Georgic Landscape

Give birth to new life among young grasses and wild daffodils spring on legs still wet Till hearts prepared to taste a rhapsody of rain drops dripped heirlooms sown deep Sweep beams with sunshine walk the earth caught on sweeping swallow wings grow germinate grow Angry arguments pull like peeling paint from iris petals done…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, Nature, Poetry Tagged With: garden, georgic, life, NaPoWriMo2017, nurture, picturesque, Poetry, relationship, season, sublime

I Hear Your Call

April 21, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Blossoms

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…

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Filed Under: Flower, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: blossom, conversation, falling in love, Love, music, NaPoWriMo2017, pink, song, Tom Petty, wildflower, wildflowers

Gladiators

April 20, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Gladiator Stadium

In the moment there is only dust and din and thoughts of glory we dig our hands into our stage a bedroom hall a kitchen drink a commuting car rings the Retiarius roams encircles encroaches ensnares the other entangled in the words casting weighted nets impaling with a trident thrice past present futures told stabbed…

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