14 WORDS - Mirror

14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015: Mirror

photo by PSC

Sometimes so simple

yet others,

nearly impossible

to love

that one

in the mirror.

PSC/2015-01

~

ABOVE is my 8th entry for "14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015".

   And here's a link to Jodi Barnes' "14 WORDS for LOVE" BLOG: 
http://14wordsforlove.com/

 

14 WORDS - Love Song

14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015: Love Song

ABOVE is my 7th entry for "14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015".

   Here's a link to Jodi Barnes' "14 WORDS for LOVE" BLOG: 
http://14wordsforlove.com/

 

  

And BELOW is my offering for the 1ST prompt of the

Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild - "The Sound of Love":

Universal Love Song

 

Earth offers up her serenade

in the nurturing hush of snowfall,

in the soft, soothing patter

of gentle rain on the roof

or timpani of thunder

accompanied by flashes of lightning

slashing the night sky;

 

a ballad of chirping birdsong,

squirrel and chipmunk chatter,

whispering zephyr,

susurrations of shivering leaves

and frozen streams, running still,

beneath a lace

of ice and snow;

 

the minstrel silver silence

of moonlight

as it slips between the blinds

and over the sill

to settle on my pillow,

sending me back to sleep

with a beloved’s smile.

 

PSC/2015  

 

And HERE is a link to the NEW "Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild" (PRPG) web site

(including this prompt & other poets' offerings):

Phoenix Rising Poetry Guild: "The Sound of Love"

SPREAD LOVE!

 

 

14 WORDS - Lost Love Ones

14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015: Lost Love Ones

 

Above is my 6th entry for "14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015".

 

Here's a link to an older poem, written in memory of a lost friend:  

Found Feathers

 

 

 And here's a link to Jodi Barnes' "14 WORDS for LOVE" BLOG: 
http://14wordsforlove.com/

SPREAD LOVE!

 

 

 

14 WORDS - First Love

14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015: First Love

 

 

Above is my 5th entry for "14 WORDS for LOVE - 2015".

(And below is a longer version of the same poem/event:) 

 

Gumball Machine - photo credits below.   //   3rd grade school photo - c.1965

First Love

 

He'd sneak up behind me

on the playground,

steal my stocking cap

and bestow a kiss. 

He gifted me a golden ring

from a gumball machine

and a purloined pen

he'd swiped from his sister. 

 

Later, he broke my heart

conflating my name

with another's. 

 

After half a century,

in an old photo

I fail to recognize his face.

He's a stranger to me now,

yet, I still recall his name.

PSC/2015 

  Gumball Machines - Photo Credit:

By Unclefester (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

 And here's a link to Jodi Barnes' "14 WORDS for LOVE" BLOG: 
http://14wordsforlove.com/

SPREAD LOVE!