A Walk

A WALK

Are you sure you want to follow?

The water's cold and the rocks are hard

Are you sure you want to follow?

We will be leaving the safety of the yard

Are you sure you want to follow?

Lil's eyes said to me

Are you sure you want to follow?

Who knows what waits beneath the trees

I was sure to follow

Over ever hill and rock

I was sure to follow

Even through the gates that lock

I was sure to follow

Down the deep creek bed

I was sure to follow

Trusting I felt no dread.

We saw birds and cattle

We saw deer in a row

We saw our breath in the air

We decided it was time to go.

For dVerse~Poets Pub

Art With The Mag

le Jardin, 1962, by Max Ernst 

Orange, yellow, blue and green
Surround a woman underground
Not to bloom or blossom
but rather to rot or drown

Art is in the eye of the beholder
As poetry is in the heart
He painted what I could not see
I rambled...yet both are art

For The Mag with Tess Kincaid

dVerse~Poets Pub Terza Rima...

• dVerse~Poets Pub poetry challenge  This Thursday our challenge was a Terza Rima rhyming poetry in tercets...what the ???  Anyway, here's my attempt.  "The first and third lines of each subsequent stanza rhyme with the second line from the stanza before, so the rhyme scheme is aba bcb cdc and so on.  You need at least three stanzas to produce the musical effect of the chain-rhyming."

Revealed as a snake in the grass, 

Injecting your venom

Withdrawing was low class 

My personal prison

 Was this empty shell

Newly arisen

I have rebelled 

By floating away 

I've escaped your hell

Dreaming...

I can't say
I do not dream
I feel my eyes
Move quickly
Observing worlds
As I sleep
I dream
But the memories of it
Slip away
And lay on the edge
Just out of reach
Enough to be strangers.

Playing with Real Toads

Attempting Poetry...

Playing with Toads

Moss grows northward

On rough bark of tree roots and logs

Moss grows northward

Celebrating the rain it grows

Thicker and greener in cool shade

Weeping shades of green while it crawls

Moss grows northward

Icy Prompt From Poets United...

Poets United

Rays of ice reach for spring

Spinning their own web

We see lily buds beneath

See life suspended

Surviving

Showing faith

Far greater than humans

Hues of spring

Spiral beneath

Black icy water

Waiting for the word to emerge