molten heat an ion supercharged with passion lust migrating a wunderlust pulling at magnetic blood hardened split between worlds and states sex in a stream devourers sirens succubus running flowing openings ones and O’s plugins switching singing of the spring you fuse electrify jealous desire move easy call me illuminate a wire wet water sex…
Water Returned
A snowflake is an iceberg fallen into a warming sea an iceberg is an ocean wave melted on the plastic shore an ocean wave is a hazy sky pressing the humidex high a hazy sky is a raindrop running on smokey cars a raindrop is a river rough washing an empty salmon bed a river…
Storms
Above ground the clouds circled Below ground the waters came Caught in the cracks of the walls Down to the foundation through soaked Earth with sorrow and sadness while Fear and anxiety gathered in the storm Giving pause for personal reflection Held hostage in the core of yesterday’s Interior locked in its shadows, Jailed behind…
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…
Luminescence Sent
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…
nine times nine
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…
Hurricane’s Descent
Through hurricane’s eye Storms the waterfall below Chutes return to sea. All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Atop.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.
Beauty of Chaos
The beauty of a moment Hurled into the promise of tomorrow A pool of water thrust into the sun Its stillness shattered by desire For stars cast upon a bright blue sky. The chaos in a moment Random flights defy direction Caught only by gravity’s liquid tongue Form pipes of pure glass Crashing into yesterday….
Lady of Gold
Water gold and you one love precious and pure unfathomable …. You cleanse my spirit sifting through my shoals baptized by ripples of sea You pan my history releasing my secrets mining my life’s nuggets You forge in me a life smelted with a ray of blue an ingot borne of water. You hammer my…
Seasons Come … and Seasons Go
On February 3rd, Ottawa experienced the warmest February day on record, reaching nearly 10° Celsius. Then this Tuesday, February 16th, Ottawa had a record for its largest single-day snowfall — over 50cm. Yesterday night I went cross-country skiing. And today, February 20th, while not a record, the season has changed again and with a daytime…