Sunday, July 29, 2012

MAGPIE...Prompt #128


                                                        Image/ Black Dog/ Zelko Nedic


Thanks to Tess at MAGPIE TALES...


THE REAL BITCH

A black dog
in the company of dogs.
Hecate's gone for a stroll.
Triple goddess of my earth,
my moon,
my Hades.

Paint, she says,
leaving a list of do's
and don'ts,
starting with absence:
no color.

Consider:
shade of night,
storm clouds,
a wolf's lair,
closed eyes,
old wounds.

Stilettos click the return.
Anubis, her pet,
will tattle-tale all.

Maybe she'll like it.
And maybe she won't.


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Sunday, July 22, 2012

MAGPIE...Prompt #127


                                                 Figure Eight/ Franz Kline/ 1952


FOR THIS WEEK'S Mag...a Pantoum..for Tess, at Magpie Tales.


CIRCLET

There's something about a crown of thorns
separated from the rose
all dread, no green days left
piercing all that's luminous.

Separated from the rose
there's nothing good about a crown of thorns
piercing all that's luminous
a clasp of barbs to pinch the skull.

There's nothing good about a crown of thorns
rests in the minds eye forever
a clasp of barbs to pinch the skull
once seen, never denied.

Rests in the mind's eye forever
all dread, no green days left
once seen, never denied
there's something about a crown of thorns.


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Sunday, July 15, 2012

MAGPIE...Prompt #126


                                              Yesterday's Dreams/ Jack Vettriano


THANK YOU, Tess, for this Magpie Tales.........



PANDORA'S MEDITATION

Let's live.
Let's try life again.
I wake up at the first slap,
squint at God's Tree,
it's Eden again.

Eternity absorbs me
between
drawing in a gulp of air
and puffing out.

Breath is all I have,
the only proof that I exist.
Everything else is embellishment.
Untie the box.

A broken China doll tumbles out,
her neck embroidered by tattoos.

Love you, love you baby.
My breath is all I have.


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Sunday, July 8, 2012

MAGPIE...Prompt #125


                                        Chilmark Hay/ 1951/ Thomas Hart Benton



THANK YOU, Tess, for Magpie Tales....


PITCHING HAY

Hay thrown to the wind,
gold spun into daylight.
The grateful heart gleams within,
glorious ray of paradise,
ever a better morning than this?

All movement in the hillock stops.
The eyes of a rodent
lock in catatonic dread.
See me, fasten on me,
sip a last breath.

Will his darting
be swifter than my whack?
Placing the act in beauty
helps me forget.

Pull back, pull back,
you will see
the birds-eye view of splendor.



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Sunday, July 1, 2012

MAGPIE...Prompt #124

                             
                                                                     Ophelia/ Odilon Redon


THANK YOU, Tess, for Magpie Tales.


SINKING

Remain, lift me.
Keep me from sinking
into a gothic tragedy.

I lunge for your words,
like souls dive for spirit,
splitting time in half,
sinking and rising,
flirting with calamity.

I wait for the current
to flush my heart
clean of yearning.

Courage breaks
and damsels sink.
Not under yet.
Rescue me.


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