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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

Green is My Vice

March 28, 2017 by Dale 9 Comments

Green Frog in Pond

Kiss me once and kiss me twice I am a frog Green is my vice. Sitting low upon my throne I am the Pond King Behold — all that I own. Water is my golden pleasure Look into my eye See all my treasure. Crowned I am by a water flower I stroll my palace…

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Filed Under: Animals, Poetry, Travel, Water, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Alhambra, Children Rhyme, frog, green, Lily, Photo, Poem, Pond, Rhyme, Spain, Weekly Photo Challenge

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

Atop Granada – Alhambra

March 16, 2017 by Dale 1 Comment

Atop Alhambra 3

Some walks to the top are intentioned. Some just happen. Here’s my story (photo) story on how I found myself atop Granada … If you know Granada, a richly layered and culturally diverse city in Spain, you also know that it is perched in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. And while it is a…

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Filed Under: Architecture, Travel, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Writes Tagged With: Albaicin, Alhambra, Architecture, atop, Granada, Medieval, Moorish, Muslim, Spain, street, sunset, tourist, travel, Weekly Photo Challenge

Love Written in the Sand

March 10, 2017 by Dale 4 Comments

Love wishes written in sand

Four billion years of stone broken into a whispering beach The sea a water clock A second the time to fall in love Forever is a moment played Feelings formed upon the shore Infinity counted in the grains Love exists without dimension We are written in the sand washed clean by eternity. All text and…

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Filed Under: Beach, Poetry, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: beach, infinity, Love, Poem, sand, sand writing, sea, time, Weekly Photo Challenge, wish

The Road’s Compass

March 2, 2017 by Dale 7 Comments

Sundial at Llano de la Perdiz

Shadows upon the road Taken memories Cast against sky azure Peering upon the sundial Moving micro minutes Direction is a circle Our lives are choices made Consequences enclosed Upon destiny’s arc. All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “The Road Taken.” ……

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Filed Under: Nature, Objects, Poetry, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Compass, Granada, Granada Sundial, Llano de la Perdiz, Road, Road Taken, Sierra Nevada, Spain, Sundial, Trek, Weekly Photo Challenge

Youth Stands Trapped

February 27, 2017 by Dale 5 Comments

Youth Matched

Hormones find a match Sexual curiosity A young boy stands trapped.”   All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “A Good Match.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.

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Filed Under: Children, Haiku, People, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: a good match, boy, curiosity, erotica, Haiku, Seville, sex shop, Spain, Weekly Photo Challenge, youth

Against All Odds

February 20, 2017 by Dale 18 Comments

Some things just seem “meant to be.” Sometimes we seek clarification; sometimes we seek answers. We seek direction when we are lost; we seek purpose and meaning.  We seek love. And sometimes we seek the things we lose, the things that are most precious to us …. On Saturday night, a week ago, Jess and…

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Filed Under: Ramblings, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter, Writes Tagged With: Against the Odds, Jessica, lost, Meant to Be, Personal, snow, story, wedding ring, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter

Solitude

February 17, 2017 by Dale 3 Comments

Feline Solitude

Feral beauty rests Warm upon a Moorish wall Feline Solitude.   All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Solitude.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.

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Filed Under: Animals, Haiku, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Alhambra, cat, feline, Granada, Haiku, Photo, Spain, travel, Weekly Photo Challenge

Fortune’s Shadow

February 15, 2017 by Dale 7 Comments

Gypsy telling fortune

“Hold the rosemary, Listen my child, I offer you fortune, I offer you clarity. “Give me your hand Give me your life Give to me money and I’ll stop time in the sand. “Your lines are your roads Your hand is my map You travel from far, it is written in codes. “You are newly…

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Filed Under: B&W, Jessica, People, Poetry, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: Fortune, Fortune Telling, gypsy, Jessica, Poem, rosemary, Seville, Shadow, Spain, Weekly Photo Challenge

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

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    Bashert
  • Lumber Dog

    Lumber Dog
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    Aisling for the Land
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    Hard Boiled Boy
  • The Blasted

    The Blasted
  • Sense of Time

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    We Reflect
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    A Family Grown
  • Fly — Away

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  • The Storm

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  • A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom

    A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom
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