Sacred
The bass is sacred
swimming swiftly
like a streak;
free to be
silver-
gills a-sparkle!
Riddle#23 Sacred
19 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: bass, Boston Bombing, defiled, doubt, free, free liberty, gazes, human-rights, innocents, marathon, prayers, race., riddle, sacred, sacred souls, trust
Riddle#22 Happiness
19 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Family Tags: bubbles, effervescent, fleeting, giggles, happiness, hiccups, illustration, metonymy, pantoum, rainbow, random, riddle, rote, trouble
My first Pantoum:
A verse form consisting of a series of quatrains in which the second and forth lines of each verse are repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
Verse composed using metonymy.
Happiness is fleeting
Soap bubbles pop!
Giggles get itchy
Hiccups won’t stop.
Soap bubbles pop
Fleeting rainbow floats;
Hiccups won’t stop:
They’re random, then rote.
Fleeting rainbow floats
Popping in your face;
They’re random , then rote
Effervescent space.
Popping in your face
Is happiness bubble,
Effervescent space
On a planet of trouble.
Riddle#21 Darkness
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: coil, darkness, dusk, etch, eyelids, gentle silhouettes, riddle, shadowed feasts, sings, slow, weathered fetes
Still the darkness sings its song:
Slow, gentle, silhouettes
Etch to dusk, coil o’er eyelids
Shadowed feasts; weathered fetes.
This poem is a response to a prompt from David Harrison:
New challenge from J. Patrick Lewis: “In the lives of . . . “
Riddle#20 Fickle Spring
17 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Family Tags: blue, crocus, earth, fickle Spring, flakes, laugh, moon, riddle, snow Austerlitz, vernal equinox
it
was
vernal
equinox:
snow in Austerlitz:
blue flakes laugh at crocus shoots, blue
with cold, not dew; fickle Spring, fickle earth, fickle moon.
Riddle#19 Bike Trails
16 Apr 2013 4 Comments
in Family Tags: branches, bucks, conversing with trees, debris, fagots, flow tracks, free-styling, icicles, leaves, mitten-ed, nature, pathway, riddle, roots, shredding, steeds, temples
Bike Trails
Let’s get the little ones shredding!
Tearing up roots, gathering fagots,
Sweeping with branches, leaves and debris.
Beckoning pathways for bikes, ATVs.
Tearing up roots, gathering fagots,
Mitten-ed hands scoop them up swiftly
Break off the icicles crisply.
Sweeping with branches, leaves and debris.
Working construction so all can now see
The free-styling pathway country.
Beckoning pathways for bikes, ATVs.
Temples of trees making way for the speed;
Backyard flow tracks for the bucks and the steeds!
Riddle #15 Fruity
14 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Family Tags: adventure, core, different, discovery, dwarfed, flowing, fruity, juices, kinship, reflection, riddle, sap, seeds, snappy bites, tender, tree
Fruity
Someone called me :
“Fruity”
today.
Did he see my core?
Or tender skin?
Reflection in the light?
Dwarfed stem?
Snappy bites to offer?
Juices flowing?
Sap?
Kinship with my seeds?
Fallen from a tree?
Or me: different?
An adventure in discovery?
Riddle#15 “I Am Somebody”
12 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Annika in a Box, electronic songs, epigraph, flow, matters, riddle
All things flow into one another.
What we do matters.
Richard Jones
Riddle#14 Epigraph
11 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Family, Uncategorized Tags: artist, books, citation, detail, echo, epigraph, invisible, literary composition, literature, motto, nancy willard, passage excerpt, quote, riddle, saint, theme
A logo is an epigraph.
A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc., suggesting its theme
quotation, quote, citation
1. repeat, recite, reproduce, recall, echo, extract, excerpt, proclaim, parrot, paraphrase, retell
2. refer to, cite, give, name, detail, relate, mention, instance, specify, spell out, recount, recollect, make reference to, adduce
3. estimate, state, tender, set, offer, bid
noun
(Informal) quotation, passage, excerpt, reference, extract, citation
The artist, like the saint shows us how to love.
To love, one must make oneself invisible.
Nancy Willard
Epigraph (A list poem)
jump start
motto
quotation
theme
repeat
echo
proclaim
cite
name
detail
instance
specify
adduce
state
offer
Riddle#13 The Gift
10 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: acidly, boutique, chanting, dizzy, exploding, frizzled, gift, iphone, lightening, musings, mystique, photo booth, riddle, spells, tizzy, wild
Don Needs the HELP Menu!
The Gift
Who put your photo in Photo Booth?
Whirled it around like an unwanted tooth?
Offered you up to the i-Phone Boutique,
Dizzy and tizzy and busy mystique.
Whirled it around like an unwanted tooth;
Magic wand twirling: wild and uncouth:
Mid chanting, and spells and musings to sooth!
Offered you up to the i-Phone Boutique,
Where Photo Booth surgically alters your face
“Til you’re not looking part of the male human race!
Dizzy and tizzy and busy mystique:
Waving and frizzled, acidly blown
Exploding like lightening on the i-Phone!
This poem is a trimeric.
Riddle#12 Listening
09 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Holy, links, listening, quaker saying, quicksilverpartners, rain, riddle, silence
Jeanne Listens to iMac
Don listens to iMac
Quaker Saying:
“Listening creates holy silence.
Listening is like rain.”
For the artwork created by Jeanne and Don, go to:
http://www.quicksilverpartners.com
Enjoy the many links.
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 