Tag Archives: Prompt Nights

Swallowing Sun

Posted on April 18, 2016 by whimsygizmo

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing…” – John Ruskin   .. It breaks, this day. Open, like an egg. In golden strings, strummed as song. … Continue reading →

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{Sevenling: Spring}

Posted on April 8, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Spring flings herself forward in falling blossoms, sacred sun, singing trees. We daisychain hands, loop strains of song. Plant poems. Sometimes, the robin hums along.   .. Prompted by Prompt Nights with Sanaa over at A Dash of Sunny. … Continue reading →

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Put this Poem on a Pedestal

Posted on February 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. This poem is Poe -seidon, all salt, and quake. For Thor’s sake, give it a hammer, a helmet, an underworld, a mountain. A fountain of youth. The truth, in the shape of something golden, or great. But hurry. This … Continue reading →

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what goes

Posted on January 22, 2016 by whimsygizmo

  .. Written for Prompt Nights over at A Dash of Sunny. 

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Shrinking Down to Silence

Posted on January 15, 2016 by whimsygizmo

. Forgive me my lost muchness, my lost touch with all in -sanity. I find that I can only listen now to stars, the twinkling inklings of this sage sky. I also think these trees have some small thing to … Continue reading →

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Answering only with Spring

Posted on January 11, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Oh, sweet spontaneous earth and all things new and now and wow, I wish I were more go with the flow than plot and plan and wring my hands. Oh, to be more bloom than doom, more song than … Continue reading →

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the delight of rain on quiet ground

Posted on January 4, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. i am found in silence and slanted sky, the tilted why of breeze. i am scent of indigo waters, fallen drops dolloped in hope and heaven. i am seven seas and silvered moon, the pull of wave and whim … Continue reading →

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