MAGPIE/ Prompt #97

                                                              Photo/ Bert Stern
  

TODAY WE CAN SALUTE MARILYN.....an invitation from Tess at Magpie Tales. 


BUTTERFLY

Hey Joe, it's what I do,
I turn the infra-red on
across the universe.
Even interstellar dust
can't obscure my game.

Did you want me
to round the bases with you,
when restless hands
keep reaching for
my effervescence of desire?

What book did you have to open
to find me?
I don't live in words,
but in the space
between your eyes and mine,
a cocoon on my way
to metamorphosis.

See me flying by,
a chrysalis,
exuvium crumbling,
A Monarch butterfly.


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ADAM and EVE and ALIENS/ Poetry Picnic Week #1

FIRST I GOT SHUT OUT of Jingle, poem already done...what to do?  Then I got an invite to join the new Gooseberrygoespoetic Blog.  This is good, because poem seemed about to languish.  Thanks one and all (Jingle, of course!). 
Will not be able to comment for next couple of days because of necessary surgery...shhhh...but will try to catch up.  And, fingers crossed, please!


ADAM and EVE and ALIENS

This orb of trees
and blue seas
will be planted
with miracles
from this day forward.

A book will tell the legend.
Pull Eve from his rib now,
let her kiss the bleed
as if she could ever
heal the pain of Adam's desire.

All will bear the scar.
The secrecy of a bitten apple,
will create a yawning wound
as snakes contrive
illusions of fulfillment.

So like the other worlds
where androids reign.


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MAGPIE/ Prompt # 56

                                      
                                               photo/ willow/ magpie tales


A tasty treat, I hope. A sliver of garlic always makes it better, I think.  Another great Mag Prompt from Tess.....thanks!


THE VAMPIRE'S BRUNCH

A walk in the fog of dawn
might unleash a shroud of wings,
wakeful on the horizon of desire.

Searing eyes eat me before we touch,
and the toothy vampire will be happy
only when my bloody skin sticks to his.

Before he has the power to dissolve my soul
and send me straight to hell, I have something
to whisper into this demon's ear:

I've got a fat clove of garlic,
when smashed and sniffed,
will save a damsel like me!

A lei of Allium Sativum round my pale neck
may look like flowers to the impaler,
but if this old bat mistakes me
for a Vampire's Brunch,
myths and garlic
will ruin his munch.


Footnote #1:
    When Satan left the Garden, garlic arose in his left footprint and the onion in his right.  Remember to rub some Allium Sativum on chimneys and keyholes to keep the imp from coming in.

Footnote #2:
    Alliumphobia/ fear of garlic.


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In Love...

IN LOVE WITH BEAUTY
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Beauty makes a fool of us all
it halts the breath's flow
in a seizure of desire
and that fatal allure
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It halts the breath's flow
I swoon from so much splendor
and that fatal allure
love and longing find me again....
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From "Two Ghosts", poems
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ASLEEP
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Don't wake.
Let me stare at you as you dream...
the bedroom
dark blue at dawn,
the sun still hiding
below the polestar.....

FIRE and ICE

SOMETIMES the tone of things these days leads one to believe that
we, the upright walking creatures, mean to do ourselves irreparable harm.
And take the rest of this amazing planet with us.
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I came across this poem by Robert Frost. Clever fellow.
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FIRE AND ICE
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Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
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Robert Frost


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAyles Ice Shelf
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Mary Travers
November 6, 1936- September 16, 2009
"Blowin' in the Wind"
Rest In Peace