A big thank you to the prompters for such wonderful sources of inspiration. Again, I’ve tried to put in the prompt words this time.
Want to stay whole
Sparing your soul
From callous hand
But understand
Make mirrors of your eyes
And only the vain will idolise
#WrittenRiver (make mirrors)
A not-so elusive scent
Of a Spring spent
In heady undress
A love in excess:
How our brief encounter
Haunts this bower
#DimpleVerse #prompt (not-so elusive scent; Spring; undress; brief encounter)
Your vacant gaze
Haunts my days
And life drips by
While I sit and try
To find you there
In that empty stare
#SableSwanV (vacant gaze)
Taken from me
My great certainty
And in its stead
Hollowed out rooms
To fill up tombs
Empty arms instead
#WrittenRiver (great certainty)
Love is home
Architecture
Strong and sure
No secret
To construct
We could
Turn the towns
Of the world
Into cities
All know home
#DimpleVerse (architecture: No secret; of the world; love is)
Strange insistence
Deep within me
The persistence
Of memory
Of what should be
If dreams were free
#SURREAL #DimpleVerse #micropoetry #prompt (persistence of memory)
Hooked on
Bitter wines
Urged on
By deadlines
Afraid of
Setting suns
Sick of
Tiring runs
Need to
Hold her near
Love to
Linger here
#botaiku
We speak
With two voices
One bleak
One rejoices
And the loudest
Is the one
We expressed
Most often
So listen for
A lost whisper
#SableSwanV (two voices)
Ease burdens
Tease lovers
Laugh with kids
Eating picnics
Rest as day ends
With good friends
Existance etched
In the garden bench
#botaiku (garden bench theme)
Don’t turn around
I need to know
Safe and sound
That we’re through
Don’t drop hints
In last glances
Golden glints
Of 2nd chances
#SableSwanV (turn around)
Thought it better #HOLLOW
Than need and follow
What I couldn’t grasp
Barely living on a gasp
#poetheme #micropoetry #poetry #writing #prompt (hollow)
You hide fragile
With easy guile
Blinding smile
It’s all worthwhile
But if you tear
From lack of care
I’ll be there
Pain to bear
#TastyPoem (fragile)
Your addictive guise
Sweetens your lies
And bitter poison slips
Past sugar-coated lips
We’re happy wasting
Greedily tasting
#horrorprompt (sugar coated)
I be trickster
Merry jester
I be teacher
Howling preacher
I be death
Winter’s breath
I be might
When you fight
What I be
Is #coyote
#vss365 (coyote)
A reckless pebble
Stirred up rebel
Swept up in yer
Undammed river
Crazzy eddies
Current tease
Carryin me
Somewhere free
#DimpleVerse #poetry (pebble; reckless; undammed; river; free)
It’s worn thin
This disguise
Of believing
It’s in your eyes
You aren’t healed
And your frail
Weary shield
Is but a veil
#TastyPoem #poem (veil)
Nature’s lyricist
Wrote existence
But to make it sing
An’ mean something
Shut up and listen
Cos our wishin
Won’t gift an encore
#DimpleVerse (lyricist)
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