Tag: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie
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melded ~ free verse
melded souls melting timewith clumsy careless wordsmaking lovepay for reasonshutting windowslest yearning oozesinto wanton hopeimbuing realitywith child-like promiseswanting to wanderinterlacing fingersso we forget this griefin all its gloryin our last embrace Mindfills © 2023 For MLM’s Sunday Confessionals Q ~ What do you yearn for? A ~ I yearn for another last embrace (Repost from Mindfills…
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Morning ~ free verse
Morning propels her mirror to propose a wager…Is this a face of fortune?Ten thousand coins to winif she lets her wisdom speakNot a thing for you to loseif she holds it backBut the question is…Who will you be today? Would you be a skepticand walk away?Or would choose the other alternative and be kind?A human…
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Up ~ a haibun
Up on the hill, dawn breaks into a pink smile. Something tells me this athlete runs with a novel resolve to endure the pain and complete his 10k. Two friends park their red car, sync steps and Strava, and strut off on a no-nonsense calorie burning uphill march.I walk into the first week of the…
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winter ~ a free verse
skinny twigs of mighty treesflailing brittle arms,with faux bravado, fighting coldfrigid sky purses thin blue lipsshuts off pleasits not me! Winter’s your foewicked wild wind wooshes ruthlesschilling earth to the coreice crusted air ferries flakes of snowsurvival is moot, fear is visceralour esprit de corps is manacledteeth chatter a staccato *** MLM’s Saturday mix –…
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sepia ~ a senryu
sepia images scattering shards of my heart ~ our song plays anyway MLM’s- what becomes of the broken hearted, Sadje’s what do you see
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If you ~ a trinet
If youstay untilmorning curves its arms around usI will wake first and make ussugar dustedtwo coffeesone mugIf youcall outmy name for nothing at allI will tell the air we breatheto playfor youour songIf youforget methere’s a note in your pocketwith my number and my heartso love,we can begin again *** Mindfills for dVerse’s Open Link…
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cascades ~ prosery
Cascades of thought rush from my toes, washed in ever-flowing, evanescent rivers of time. Yesterday lures my yearning heart into watching with wonder, photographs in sepia, through windows life leaves open. My logical mind wants to make connections. The cold air, the warm scent of my mother, the uncertainty of my next breath as the…
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booked ~ a haiku sequence
pressed into old bookpapered for preserving pasts~ purple petuniavellichor conjuresveritably verdant view~ vintage vanitypages reminisceas I leaf through yesterdays~ bibliophile beamshistory arrivesuncoloured by how or why~ a forever presentfor scribes and readers time survives in each story~ to be continued… Mindfills for Sammi Cox’s weekend writing prompt – vellichor 48 words, MLM’s same but different…
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a new sun ~ an englyn cyrch
A new sun sprints across skiesas ripe golden beams surpriseextreme scowls into bright smilesWatch a while…Oh how time flies *** FOWC extreme & MLM’s synonyms (young(new), old(ripe), yellow(golden), run(sprint), frown(scowl)) & Sadje’s what do you see. Written in englyn cyrch – a Welsh poetry form – quatrains of 7 syllables per line, lines 1,2,4 rhyme…
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we are us ~ a nonet
showering into our searching soulsskies and stars from aeons agostream lights into me and yousilver flares all aglowsearing truths of lovesongs from the runesso we knowwe areus *** Mindfills for Colleen Cheesebro’s Tanka Tuesdays – ekphrastic challenge MLM‘s lucky dip – nonet
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