Everything Under the Sun

Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows Helen Keller

Soledad: A Day at the Beach

She sells seashells by the sea shoreI query and question the cause“why buy, the beach is shell galore?” Clear coast across clean ocean sheen.The summer swimming swarm missingserves a scenic scene seldom seen The soledad is a Spanish poetic form. It has the following guidelines:Three-line poem (or stanzas).Eight-syllable lines.Rhyme scheme: aba.Internal consonance and assonance. Weekly …

Treochair: Summer, Bees & Pleas

Perhaps Pray and pleaProphets please, perhaps plays partAnd priests prayers profit me Cheeky Bee I would beThe happiest honey beeIf you were a bee with me Take my shotSweeten the fine fingered spotSlip inside your honey pot Impending Death of Summer All is funSights and sun on and on, thenIt's deader than deadly done Treochair: …

Back to Nature

deep breathsthe tide fillsshallow waters I'm el naturalepoison ivy on my junkswelling worth the pain stems bowdownpour in springstrength returns the path less traveledlooks exactly like the restclearly I am lost petals ponderthe sun winksdarkness follows Weekly Theme:Original Twisting Tail Format Monday: Flash FictionTuesday: TankaWednesday: Free Verse PoetryThursday: Rhymed poetryFriday: LimerickSaturday: haiku/senryüSunday: Children's Rhyme

It’s Only Natural

notchesand scoreshold the secretsof a birch wood SOS Crickets Wait until duskto make your presence knownOne is a monotonous comfortprovided it continues alone A chorus howeveryour ears begin to bleedAll the while you ask yourselfwhat exactly is the need? Water sucks at the rocksin an erotic displayof dominance Surrounded by natureI feelthe earth is a …