Follow this blog
-
Recent Posts
Archives
whimsy gizmos
February 2021 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Blogroll
Click to check out these blogs I stalk. (They rock!)
- Across the Lake, Eerily (Marie Elena & Walt)
- Awakened Words (Mark Windham)
- Bootless Cries (Anne Katherine)
- Conversations with Laurie (Laurie Kolp)
- Cracker Jack Poet (Sara Vinas)
- Drift of Bubbles (Diana Domino)
- Felt-Tip Fountain Pen (poetcolette)
- Fights With Poems (Daniel Ari)
- Hannah Gosselin's Poetry
- I Hate Poetry (Buddah Moskowitz)
- Iain Kemp Poetry
- Imagine – Pearl Ketover Prilik
- Kim King's Blog
- Linda Goin's Blog
- Magic in the Backyard (Kellie)
- Misky's Poetry
- Mousetales Press (Linda Hatton)
- One Inch Tall – Catherine Lee
- Our Lost Jungle – Khara House
- Poetic Asides with Robert Lee Brewer
- Poetic Bloomings (Marie Elena and Walt)
- Poetic Echoes and Dancing Shadows (Nikki Markle)
- Purple Pen in Portland (Sara McNulty)
- Rosemary Mint (Shawna)
- Sharp Little Pencil (Amy Barlow Liberatore)
- The Chime – Phil Canon
- The Man with the Blue Guitar (Vince Gotera)
- The Poet Tree (Sharon Ingraham)
- Through the Eyes of Meena Rose
- Wander, Ponder, Poem & Pix (Pamela Smyk Cleary)
- Whatever and Ever (Chev Shire)
- When Words Escape Me (Paula Wanken)
Copyright Info
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Tag Archives: orion’s belt
how then shall we scale this sky?
if you bend low, i can stand on your should-ers and stretch up up up on my tiptoes to reach Orion’s belt and fly. ::written for poetic asides November chapbook challenge.
Orion’s Song
.. I’m just sitting here with my go-go gadget batman belt, helping re-hang the moon. You said I was your proof of life. I just thought I was lighting your way home. .. In November, we poem.
Posted in moon poems, Poetic Asides Chapbook Challenge 2019
Tagged Orion, orion's belt, seeing stars, sky poems, sky songs, stars
3 Comments
scribbling on the moon
.. we’ve borrowed Orion’s belt -sander, Icarus’ wax and wane, the silver-tipped nibs of these immediate stars. it’s quite a stretch, this lunar etch-a-sketch , but we hope you’ll read it, …………soon. .. In April, we poem.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #aprpad, #inaprilwepoem, April PAD 2019, etch a sketch, Icarus, moon poems, moon stones, Orion, orion's belt, scribbling on the moon, tiny poems
Leave a comment
Loose Thoughts Caught on a Silver Slow-Stitched Thread
.. Listen, here is the thing we might whisper to your waiting ears if you let us; the picture we might paint for you of future endings and un -endings, the case we should argue for the brilliance of forbidden … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #amwriting, #aprpad, April PAD 2018, gypsy poet, moon, Orion, orion's belt, sky songs, stars, the one with all the prompts, thread
3 Comments
16 new ways of looking at the moon
{for she is ever, always, my favorite.} i. she’s a hush-hush hum in a clandestine sky, a whisper in the spiral ears of stars. ii. she’s the smudge-sketched thumbprint tintype of some long -gone goddess. iii. don’t stop looking for … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems
Tagged #amwriting, #aprpad, April PAD 2018, moon poems, moon songs, moon stones, Orion, orion's belt, Poetic Asides, the one with all the prompts, Venus
3 Comments
Orion’s Wheel
…. We steal celestial moments, thread our words through belt loops touched only by gods light years away. We call names. Fall apart. Whistle and wait for the echo of our own syllables. The stars are pin-prick cat prints on … Continue reading
Posted in wordles
Tagged broken sky, moon, Orion, orion's belt, sky songs, stars, syllables, wordles
13 Comments
full dance cards
… the stars are falling, calling us out onto this ebony silk sway floor, lulling us to melt our way to shimmered sky. let’s skip rope on Orion’s belt, twist again and crescent moon grin, cloud bubble our troubles and … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged dance poems, dVerse, falling stars, moon dance, orion's belt, Q44, Quadrille, sky songs, spilled stars
7 Comments
The Eschatology of Stars
.. Orion’s got a limited number of belt loops. We’ve confirmed. So if you find yourself just spinning around out there in the middle of all that black scrimshawed sky, buckle your seatbelt, ……………and bring a flashlight. ..
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged crazy April, flashlight, Orion, orion's belt, scrimshaw, stars
3 Comments
following stars
… the sky is ours tonight, black as silk and bright with promise. we’re counting pinpricks of light, keeping time only by a melting moon. orion has loosed his belt, felt our need for bright things to lead our wandering: … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged moon, orion's belt, spilling stars, starstruck poems, wishes
18 Comments
April, and Everything After
.. Spring flung itself on her like a song, a remembering, a salvaged piece of sea glass spun right round to scattered sand. She’s gotta hand it to the moon, broken open too soon, shattered all pretty crescent loose into … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems
Tagged moon stones, November Chapbook Challenge, orion's belt, Poetic Asides prompts
3 Comments