Would a fairy drive a car
shaped like a cedar branch
with green needle fenders?
Maybe a maple leaf flying carpet?
I’d want a Japanese model,
red and sporty,
with fingers pointing toward
all directions at once.
If only I were small enough
to ride it as it passes
from cloudburst to sunbeam,
circling tree-tangled roots
to land beneath the fairy carport,
sliding safely under there
in the sudden silence just before
insane hurricane rain
pounds down, smashing the
dusty earth into dark wine.
Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: The fungus in the photographs were in the Vermont mountains and were big as frisbees, plenty big enough to shield several fairy cars. Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks to Michelle Heidenrich Barnes at Today’s Little Ditty for hosting. Plenty of poetry to savor there. I’m posting way early as usual because my Friday mornings are busy.
52 thoughts on “Fairy Carport”
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
This is so enchanting!
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Thank you!
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Hello Brenda! I was missing you and your poems!
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Always a pleasure to see you’ve stopped by. XOXOXO
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This was sweet and lovely. Fairies are magical and like Angels to give us light and lift our spirits, Brenda. xo
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Thanks, Robin. Sometimes it’s fun to just let your imagination fly.
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Wonderful imagination and writing! 🙂
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Thank you!
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You are very welcome! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Nicely done, Brenda! It’s not everyday we get to read poetry inspired by fungi!
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LOL I suppose not. I am a rare bird.
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I want one of the Japanese maple cars, too 🙂 You definitely do have a great imagination. Donna’s comment made me laugh.
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It’s been a fun flight of imagination with my Poetry Friday friends. 🙂
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Oh how sweet, I love the idea of little fairies buzzing about the forest in their tiny little cars!
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Perhaps little chestnut-shell chariots with dragonfly steeds. 🙂
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I am picturing acornvertible under that carport…
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Love it! Great pun.
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wonderful images in your poem I love the last line did you tack the pic
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Yes, I took the picture. I actually took one with a frisbee next to it to show the scale, but it didn’t work for illustrating my poem. 🙂
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souch wonderful images in in your poem that last live I just love
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oh, i love these, brenda. they look like space stations to me )
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Excellent. Perhaps that’s why mushrooms disappear. They get launched into outer space! LOL
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Those are some huge fungi – fairy parking structures? Amazingly inventive poem, Brenda. =)
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LOL Thanks, Bridget. They were big enough to be hats. My mind works in odd way. 😉
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Oh, a fairy carport! I love your sense of whimsy. You create such enchanting worlds in your poems.
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Thank you, Jama! I’m looking forward to stopping by soon. Running around nonstop today, though. XOXO
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What an imagination you have, Brenda! Such a captivating fairy world. And that last line… positively intoxicating!
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LOL Thanks, Michelle!
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I love the concept of this poem, Brenda. I’m picturing fairies zipping around in walnut-shell cars stained red with wild strawberry paint.
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Awesome! The possibilities are endless.
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Love all the details in this poem. What a rollicking ride. Thank you.
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Thanks, Joy!
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Rather an Italian model?! 😉
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Oooh, like what kind of Italian model? Love Italian cars.
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F, L & M… that’s my order!! 😉
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The universe has taken note. 😉
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It all orbits around the FL&M theory! 😉
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Love it! The line’insane hurricane rain’ is wonderful and the idea of a fairy carport delightful.
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Thanks, Sally!
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Very nice, Brenda – so vivid, and that last line is perfect.
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Thanks for appreciating my silliness, Matt.
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I’m sure that’s what they use it for. No doubt about it.
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Gigi, you’re the best.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
IN THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER. THE BIG THING FRONT-AND-CENTER MUST BE THE FAIRY COMMUNITY HELIPAD!
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LOL Absolutely! No doubt using maple seeds and pine cones.
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Quite the carport too..! With natural roof and sunlight, yes definitely import 🙂 I love it!
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Thanks, Andy!
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^.^/
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Your perspective never fails to amaze me. I would never look at a mushroom and see a fairy carport 🙂 Just wonderful, my imaginative friend 🙂
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Thanks, Morgan. I’ve always been singular. 😉
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Cute post! This poem reminds me of Thumbelina. Ah, nostalgia… 🙂
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Thank you!
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