Buzzard Bait...

It was a long night
of barked shins
stick men
and lost dreams
filled with things
you need to forget

Poets United:  Poetry Pantry

Open Link Night dVerse Poets Pub

Secret

The sparkle of a secret
in a little girl's eye
excitement grows
as she whispers to her mother
let no one know

She tiptoes to her father
her secret they share
and lastly to her sister
who's just standing there

As she whispers to her sister
reality grows
a secret isn't a secret
if more than one knows

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Beeing For dVerse Poets Pub

I met a bee today
Legs pollen laden
His tail told me
To stay away

Watching him
As he flitted
He didn't care
If I stood or sitted.

Gathering pollen
On this spring day
To make honey
For winter's stay

It is a lesson
We can't beat
Store it now
So all can eat

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Pumpkin Romance for dVerse~Poets Pub...

dVerse~Poets Pub is celebrating pumpkin time.  Come join the fun and read others.

Trick or Treat

You stroked my skin

Promising me

Candle light

And Smiles

You cut me

Eviscerated me

And set my ass on fire

You call that Romance?

Happy Halloween, Jack!

dVerse~Poets Pub Three Pitiful Poems

Playing with the poets

at dVerse~Poets Pub

Three poems from three different shelves

Silence In The Snowy Fields

A Long Way Down

The Witch In Every Woman

Turning Life Into Fiction

The Diggingest Dog
Inside Outside Upside Down
No More Dead Dogs

#1 Worst Class Trip Ever

Trapped At The Bottom Of The Sea

Titantic Crossing

And believe me

Even this poor attempt 

Was very difficult.

Insanity

Getting Real in an imaginary garden and trying to remember after a night at The Poets Pub...creative challenge.

They labeled me crazy

Put me away

They were serious

I only played

In the ink spots I saw

Wonderful imagery

Of Oz and Disneyland

Christopher Robin's tree

The Wicked Witch is dead

Get outta my head I screamed

Can't you see Toto?

I know life is but a dream

Try to remember

That's what they said

Try to remember

Spill what's in your head

What was in my memory

Did not suit their plan

So Toto and I just sit

Holding (Winnie the) Pooh's hand

Tiny Turtle For dVerse~Poets Pub

Tiny turtle in my hand

How did you arrive here

By accident 

Or man?

Tiny now too small to bite

You will grow

 Into a frightful sight.

The question remains

How came you here?

I know the answer...

From my sweet dear

Hubby's main goal

Is to make me scream

It's just a game

He's not mean

He laughs now but

I'm quite the sneak

I'll release this baby 

To the creek.

One thing we know

And tell

Around here

Paybacks are hell.

A whimsical contribution to dVerse~Poets Pub for Open Link.

The Quarry For dVerse~Poets Pub

From high cliffs
The body of water
Called her
To darkly join

Stepping silently
Into the darkness
Cold water
Embraced her

Eyes open inhaling only
Sinking to her death
She finally knew
She was not alone

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In The Sand

Possessed
By my workaholic attitude
I do silly things
Like I'm Super Man
Or Wonder Woman
Or Grand Gardener

Today
I pulled
On a very rotten limb
Until it broke
And fell with me
Hitting the ground first

My darling witnessed this
Offering me a hand up
No, thank you, I said
I just want to lay here
And ponder my stupidity
A moment

As the nice swing sand
Stuck to my sweaty parts
I thought some day
I'll be found
Like the poor bird
Dissolving in the fence

I lay long enough
Just looking and thinking
That Hubby checked again
To see if I was breathing or broken
He said, You have sand in your hair
As I took his hand this time

Join the fun at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads and Poets Pub

Sharing Yourself With Open Link Night

I may stand buck naked
But you'll never see my soul
Glimpses
Or hints of who I am
Will peek out
Only to run quickly
And hide
When you look
I may stand buck naked
But you'll never see my soul

For dVerse~Poets Pub Open Link Just Words.

dVerse~Poets Pub...The Dog

He was a dog when I met him
With kindness in his eyes
With love in his heart
With gratefulness

He was a dog when I met him
With no place to go
With no place to lay his head
With no safe place

He was a dog when I met him
Now a happy dog
Now in a safe place
Now grateful and I'm still a softy for dogs

A terrible attempt to rise to the challenge at dVerse~Poets Pub Anaphora challenge.

Word Game Trio

DECAPITATE
Delicately
Eliminating
Connecting
Appendages
Partly
Insane
Totally
Absent
To
Execute

EVISCERATED
Extracting
Vital
Insides
Slicing
Carefully
Earnestly
Radically
Annihilating
The
Entrails
Dance

LAUGHTER
Lovingly
Articulately
Undeniably
Gracious
Happiness
Tumbling
Erratically
Rambunctiousness

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

Beneath My Bed...

lurks some unknown
It still is there
Although I'm grown.

From sound sleep
I will wake
If I reach the edge
My life's at stake

I know it's crazy
But it's also real
There no controlling
How I feel.

Boogeyman
Unknown fear
Waits all night
For parts to appear

If  I jump
Not wide enough
I run the chance
Of getting snuffed.

Boogeymen and scores unseen
Wait beneath my bed
"They like the tender ones,"
My sister always said.


dVerse Poets Pub with a challenge from Brian Miller this week.  Reveal your monsters and enjoy the fun.