What, Me Afraid? Nah!

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

 

Friday the 13th

always my luckiest day

what will this year bring?
 

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Swimming in Applesauce

 

 

 

Mom may have been right.

One bad apple spoils the lot.

Choose your friends wisely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Boxed In

 

days quickly pass, and

packing boxes challenge me

moving day is nigh






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No Rose-Colored Glasses

 

 

 

 

color peeled away

 

black and white view of the world

 

naked truth exposed

 

 

 

 

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Gigolo

(Source: Wikimedia Commons) 

alone and lonely

wooed by sexy persuasion

bank account in shreds



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Dark Secrets

By Miguel Cerejido
Source: Wikimedia Commons

 

 

color me purple

 

shadows hide my mourning face

 

midnight is my name

 

 

 

 

 

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Come Hither

 

Photo by Don Cload
(Source:  Wikimedia Commons)


verdant, beckoning

Mother Nature's siren song

seduction awaits




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Over and Out

slow but not stupid
 

message received loud and clear

end of transmission






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Insomnia

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

visions chill and white

echoes in the sleepless night

wraiths just out of sight

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Genesis Interruptus

(Source: Wikipedia Commons)

begun without end

 landscape of incomplete thoughts

to be continued?



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Pain

(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

constant companion

ever-hovering vulture

just waiting to strike


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New Year's Resolution

Schlummernde Frau

by Johann Baptist Reiter (1849)(Source: Wikimedia Commons)

 

 

minutes past midnight,

she yawns, and her eyes open.

the muse is awake.

 

I’m still stiff with sleep,

she says, don’t expect too much,

a few words at best.

 

with months of silence,

few words are better than none.

make them good ones, please.

 

ah, no, she responds,

that’s entirely up to you.

you must wake up too.

 

 

 



The Quickening

Detail from a 1606 etching by 

Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome)

expectant clouds swell

gravid with winter's chill seed

 Chione labors

* Chione is a minor Greek goddess of snow.

To You Both

 

peeking in I see

passion flow like bee’s honey

am I a voyeur?

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Free Verse

(Source: image by Firedrop, WikiMedia Commons)

erase all the lines

coloring outside the box

freedom to be me

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 Written for Haiku Heights - September Heights Day 30: Free

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Battlefield

(Source: WikiMedia Commons)

that’s it! she declared,

that was one chirp too many

he’s in trouble now

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Folks, I'm a bit under the weather, so I may not get around to read too much, but I'll be back.

 

Written for Haiku Heights - September Heights Day 22: Birth

Let's Face the Music and Dance

Source: WikiMedia Commons (slightly edited)

too hard to achieve

women’s rights and freedoms won

too precious to lose 



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Written for Haiku Heights - September Heights Day 28: Waltz

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Footprint of Sharia

Afghan Girl

(Source: WikiMedia Commons)

ravaged countryside

muddy boots across my heart

my oppression hurts

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Written for Haiku Heights - September Heights Day 27: Footprint

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Pirates Ahoy!

(Image by Nico Cavallotto, Flickr)

 avast, me hearties!

Davy Jones yields no booty

high seas adventures

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 Written for Haiku Heights - September Heights Day 26: Paperboat

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In Her Dreams

 

jungle adventures

her genetic memories

the lioness stalks


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 Written for Haiku Heights - September Heights Day 25: Sleep