Moonlit Kitty

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When you’re blue,
look above:
the moon smiles,
bright with love.

Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham Continue reading

Ruffled Petals

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Ruffled red petals,
taut with youth,
reveal, then conceal Continue reading

Tulips in Thyme

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Tulips,
risque-ripe
purplicious
spring’s archetype
scent-delicious Continue reading

2017 Progressive Poem

I’m here to tell you that building a poem with 29 other poets has shivered my timbers and set my castle alight. Read down, and you will see my line, bold and italicized, emerge like a flying monkey from the otherwise well-mannered unfolding. I think it may be carrying a torch. Or is that my hair on fire? (Terror, you cannot defeat me.)

2017 Kidlitosphere Progressive Poem

The Secret Inside the Book

I’m fidget, friction, ragged edges—
I sprout stories that frazzle-dazzle, Continue reading

Mint-Lemon Spring

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Trees in bud burst
open, unrehearsed,
wild mint-lemon taste. Continue reading

Snow Fish

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Snow fish,
flow fish,
flying toward spring.  Continue reading

Sister Blue

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Brother new, sister blue, I miss you.
Both lost at age four. Pain is evermore. Continue reading

Snowdrop’s Spell

Snowdrops blooming on February 25, 2017

Softest bell,
highest tone,
listen well,
Winter Crone, Continue reading

Snowflakes are White

Red Rose leaves against a snowy lawn

Roses are red,
snowflakes are white.
The first snowflake,
like a crystal kite,
dances and drifts
in silver sunlight. 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

Sandy Treasures

Broken shell in the sand

Sandy treasures are
tossed by storms
like living toys. Continue reading

Goodbye, Summer

Seagull in front of sand castle by the sea, Atlantic Ocean

Goodbye, summer.
Goodbye, beach. Continue reading