Follow this blog
-
Recent Posts
Archives
whimsy gizmos
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: stars
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
Mr. Fixit Tries to Spackle the Moon
.. Too soon, he realizes it’s use -less; she’s born …….too many scars. And besides, she’s shrinking again. Waning until she’s weightless, wantless, willed and whiled to sky. Ask him why he keeps at it, and he’ll tell you this: … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems, poetic asides poems
Tagged moon poems, moon stones, scars, stars, wax and wane
4 Comments
the tin man finds his heart
Matt Dixon .. it starts with a spark, the way the ebony dress falls soft around him, a scrim of diamonds covering even the most rusted of scars. it only takes one small bright breath to fall in love with … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged diamonds, ekphrastic poems, robot poems, sky songs, stars, tin man
3 Comments
to hold the moon on your hungry tongue
… , first hum her name in scooped vanilla phrase, and let it murmur-melt to silence. drizzle her in dark chocolate sauce sky, with poprock star sprinkles. there’s a milky way shake nearby; just grab a straw and slurp. the … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo
Tagged chocolate sauce sky, hum, moon, NaPoWriMo 2017, planets, stars, taste, tasting the moon, universe
7 Comments
staying on task
.. just ask the moon. she’s got a job to do, too. wax. wane. balance the tide tables. keep that ocean stable. stars? they’re the thumbtacks that hold up the sky. (they don’t take smoke breaks, or wonder why.) i’d … Continue reading
Posted in poetic asides poems
Tagged April PAD 2017, love poems, moon, stars, tasks, writing on writing
3 Comments
a few lines from the farthest star
i am still here , connecting the dots on the constellation ……….of your smile. please send ink. lime, and tequila. {I am making my own salt.} .. .. a second offering for my postcard poem prompt over at dVerse. there’s … Continue reading
Posted in dVerse poems
Tagged connecting the dots, constellations, ferocious salt, lime, micro poetry, postcard poems, stars, tequila, tiny poems
9 Comments
So me an ocean
.. , so deep that you can’t find me. so wide my inky arms can span the world. so vast my salt can stay. Or so I plead with stars. But so far, I am a shore. .. Prompted … Continue reading
Posted in poetic asides poems
Tagged gypsy ocean, inky fingers, ocean poems, salt, shore, stars
1 Comment
