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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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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: argument, couple, fight, game, Gladiator, lovers, NaPoWriMo2017, Poetry, quarrel, sport, stadium

Creation

April 19, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

blue stairs

Out of time, there were Two only One and One and blue but a bucket of liquid indigo two paddlers moving in a row boat and oar a compass held where do we go, the One yelled? and on the horizon they pointed without purpose and disappointed they moved and mapped turning in a circle…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, nonsense/children, Poetry Tagged With: blue, creation, earth, heaven, myth, NaPoWriMo2017, ocean, Poetry, sea, sky, stairs

Fireflyghts

April 18, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Fireflyght

Mix the black and nyght with fireflyghts starwrite the sky with light glowings tumbledrum paint an awening bright hum and dance a bumble-blueing. Fireflyght, light-swish song switch it on electrick imagiknation wonder where wires whirly-hook dirk a dragenlight darken shun raven’s eyes circle neon looks.   ∞ Poem drafted and submitted as part of my…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, nonsense/children, Poetry Tagged With: abstract, dark, fireflyght, imagiknation, Light, NaPoWriMo2017, neologisms, nonsense, Photo, Poetry, portmanteaus

I Stand

April 15, 2017 by Dale 2 Comments

Zubizuri Bridge in Bilbao Spain

I stand beneath the cables that fasten me to this dust moving in eddies spread my tired arms to touch willing my fingers, arches and whori, my white flecked nails to grasp the infinity of a memory of a moment when I wound the handle of tin box to a tune that played like baseball…

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Filed Under: Architecture, B&W, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: age, Bridge, halfway, life, Middle, NaPoWriMo2017, Poetry, Reflections, Zubizuri Bridge

Babe

April 14, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

baseball

“Babe” George Herman Ruth Listen now ’cause this is the “truth” Into lake Ontario he crushed his first pro dinger In a way, Canada can claim this notorious swinger. ∞ Submitted as part of “National Poetry Writing Month – 2017” (#NaPoWriMo2017).  Today’s prompt: Because it’s Friday, let’s keep it light and silly today, with a…

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Filed Under: micropoetry, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: Babe, Babe Ruth, baseball, Canada, clerihew, dinger, homerun, humor, NaPoWriMo2017, nonsense

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

Luminescence Sent

April 12, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Reflection pool at Real Alcazar

Colours pool in solitude – painted – brushes weather washes away – watery – reflections swallowing whole swatches – summer – swirls autumn awe solemn bare – cracking – crumbling diving down a mermaid den – sultan’s – glen rouge rapt on smitten cheeks – reeds – rise a peacock peeks – revenant – revivalent…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Travel, Water Tagged With: colour, luminescence, NaPoWriMo2017, Poetry, Real Alcázar, Reflection, Spain, Water

Maman

April 11, 2017 by Dale 1 Comment

Maman Spider

Captured in a nightmare’s night four by four, legs and arms, entwined preying on and praying for an end a cul-de-sac an empty sack steel away your marble eggs midnight bliss births a poison kiss. Spin your web, Mother may i, may i not. Captured in an imagination box tourists take and travelers see a…

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Filed Under: Art, B&W, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Afaa Michael Weaver, Bilbao, bop, Louise Bourgeois, Maman, maternal, Mother, NaPoWriMo2017, nightmare, Poetry, scupture, security, spider

nine times nine

April 9, 2017 by Dale 2 Comments

my path is strung upon misted air its bridge I follow across divide my eyes are welded white with a stare caught in the blue of your memory its an apparition of nowhere reflected on a current of green our visions moving lines out of square fingers clutch against the flowing tide a strip of…

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Filed Under: Landscape, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Water Tagged With: 9 lines, Bilbao, Bridge, existential, magic 9, NaPoWriMo2017, nine, Poetry, Reflections, Spain, Water, Zubizuri

Black and White

April 8, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

plane tree bark

A plane tree peels black and white A hole in the morning eclipse black and white A photographer shutters contrasts black and white A cavalry knight seizes black and white A bird upon the ice frozen black and white Melanin under skin pigments black and white A gown held by a tux dances black and…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry Tagged With: answers, black, black and white, NaPoWriMo2017, plane tree, Poetry, questions, repetition, white

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