unsung

It dangled like a carrot
the icon on my phone
an affirmation by design
or chance I don’t know

Irresistible was the urge
to know what you had sent
while Time stood still
in its rose quartz tent

For the screen I made a dive
opened the link embedded
its aortistic circling kept me hanging
to see what my gorgeous had sent

That’s the thing you see
My phone all of age two had hung
and all my imagined songs of you
remained silent and unsung

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Mindfills for

Sadje’s what do you see
MindLoveMisery’s wordle – irresistible, rose quartz, chance, dive aortistic, affirmation, design, thing,embed, link, gorgeous, two

This is not ~ a free verse

This is not a banyan tree
Her arms span a hundred years
of stories as you turn her every leaf
rustling up rememberances
from her soul as she smiles 
or dabs a teardrop that drips 
her secret sadness to be whispered into the earth

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Mindfills for

dVerse Poetics hosted by Poet Mish – Object poetry…and beyond

dVerse quadrille hosted by whimsygizmo – dab

Cee’s FOTD

first sun ~ a haiku

first sun beams
warming new baby year uppin’ arms

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Mindfills for

Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge – hatsuhi (first sun)

Cee’s FOTD

letter-box red ~ a haiku

letter-box red flower
feigning faint-hearted distress
~smooth operator

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Mindfills for

Linda G Hill’s jus so Jan prompt – letter

FOWC – operation

Cee’s FOTD

freedom ~ a senryu

shrugging off you
releasing white doves in new skies
~freedom of simple

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Mindfills for

Ronovan Writes Haiku challenge – simple and release
Sadje’s what do you see – image credit Timur Kozmenko

past perfect ~ a haibun

April. Mayfair gardens. Spring turns summer. Today would have been the day. A fresh waft of coffee coloured earth wakes me up from my what-ifs wanderings. I’d fallen asleep on page 34. The paperback lay disappointed under our great big oak with its great big shadows stretching toward a darker time. Just as you did that January afternoon when you messaged “Sorry. I don’t.”

seeped in past perfect
fragrance of frangipani
after afterwords

d’Verse – Haibun for the new year hosted by Lillian
MindLoveMisery’s photo prompt

I woke ~ a limerick

I woke up in 2021 from a coma 
and went right back into trauma
coz everywhere I looked
people were nuked
by a virus they called the corona

Reena’s exploration challenge – I woke up in 2021

chatter ~ a haiku

january blooms
forgetting to button up
for chai and chatter

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Mindfills of s.s. for

Cee’s FOTD

grow ~ a senryu

grow curious child
venturing beyond sunsets
~ wisdom can wait

mindfills of s.s. for

Ronovan Writes Haiku challenge – child and grow

Sadje’s what do you see

paradise ~ a haiku

image credit – Vidya Shankararaman

imagine colours
splashing rainbows and sunsets
painting paradise

For dVerse OLN