Halloween Color

 

Halloween
haunted in harvest reds
summer’s fallen

Note: Here’s a happy halloween haiku for you!

October Blooms

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October blooms are
heavy under gray skies.
Summer is a faded smudge
on the hydrangeas. Continue reading

Smiling at Eternity

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Our bones are always smiling. Continue reading

To Know Much

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I never know as much as when I don’t know anything. Continue reading

Hope for Heliotrope

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Heliotrope was in a sour mope.
She was the last crayon picked.
She felt as if she’d been kicked. Continue reading

Mothers Near

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Mother Near

I feel my mother near
in a garden,
leaves trembling,
like my heart,
as a butterfly lights
on a concrete goddess. Continue reading

Delicious Demon

 

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Eat the delicious demon.
Gobble him up.
Before his chocolate
nose runs
or his raspberry filling
bedevils your brain.
Breathe in that
cinnamon scent:
sweet, spicy, sinister.
He has the molten texture
of dark lava cake.
Sink into the zippy
comfort of way-too-much
sugar-joy, skating like
vengeful Olympians
in your veins.
The worst demons
are the delicious ones.
Resistance is futile.
He’s hiding his fangs?
Wouldn’t you,
if you were delicious, too?

Notes: Artwork is rights reserved to the original artist. This poem was inspired three years ago by comments on a post. Since then, it has lurked in my draft file, biding its time, sighing, despairing, imprisoned. Finally, I set it free. Dig in and enjoy. Have a magical day! Two weeks to Halloween!

Leaves Aflame

 

Leaves aflame set my heart afire with thanks. Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Natick, MA, red tree by pond

Leaves aflame
set my heart afire
with thanks Continue reading

Clover Lit

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Queen Anne’s Lace is
backlit by clover,
like raspberry planets
around a central star. Continue reading

Happy National Poetry Day

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This is just to say…

Thank you, Earth

that held tight trees
bent to their knees
in hurricane winds and

that imprints time itself
on gorges, stone and shelf,
in the language of fossil hieroglyphics. Continue reading

Halloween Wordle Woes

Mindlovemisery's menagerie wordle #123

A ghostly guttersnipe
crashes the party,
filching chocolate and cider. Continue reading

Sister Blue Won First Place!

First Place Winner at NY Literary Magazine

Announcement

One of my poems, Sister Blue, won First Place at NY Literary MagazineSister Blue will be published in the NY Literary Magazine anthology, Awake, in December 2016. Awake will be available in print or as a free kindle download. Continue reading