THRICE CAPTURED

photo by RMD

Thrice Captured

Serendipitous, this

timely, divine

Summer escapee, slipped free

anticipating autumn

Freefall flight suspended,

caught, confined, quiescent

 arrested by arachnid’s craft (nature’s design)

then plucked, preserved in picture (yours)

and captured in words

(mine)

THE GIFT

“For you,” she said

offering up her most prized

possession (herself) willingly

genuinely generous

In wonder and awe

her glorious gift was accepted

but time debrides, 

wonder wears,

awe erodes, 

glory gives over to want 

and need and 

greed

 

Like kudzu vine, they overcame her

overreaching, encroaching, choking

Virginia creepers, mile-a-minute

invasive, overrunning, overriding

grasping, greeding, 

never once conceding

(much less ruing) 

symbiosis might be their undoing

TWINS SPINNING (haiku)

photo by PSC

 

One overhead spins

stirring air, cooling the room

soothing heated skin

One, in the mirror

reflects, refracts fluorescence

shimmering twilight

FIRE FLIES

"mock up" of fireflies by PSC -- not an actual photograph :-))

Fire Flies

Frustration flames,

conflagrant conflict

burns a hole in my belly

I step outside

into pitch blackness

seeking escape

Fireflies flicker

on ebony canvas

sparking flights of fancy

 

 

JOE'S BAR & GRILL

“Joe’s Bar & Grill”

Had I heard the familiar “Your dime – speak!”

I might have recognized his voice, stayed on the line,

beseeched a ride home from the library.

But this foreign phrase persuaded me

I must have misdialed or been badly connected,

so I stammered an apology, hung up the phone

embarrassed, dialed a neighbor

(with my last dime) to deliver the message.

 His truck pulled up a short time later. 

He was silent as I scrambled in, but

mischief snickered in his eyes, and a smile

lingered on his lips.

A remembrance of my father (ever the practical joker) for Father's Day.  

You are missed, Dad. 

 

ASTRONOMER

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NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted".

 NASA image by Robert Simmon and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, based on MODIS data.

 

Astronomer

It comes to you

in a moment of quiet

contemplation, in the solid

silent complete

absence of

sound

Focused

on mystical

blue-green orb,

hung like an ornament

in infinite black tapestry

you come to understand

we are, all of us,

guests in this

Garden of

Eden