Category Archives: Poetry

Photo Challenge #104 – Floating

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Michael

Image: Brooke Shaden I feel myself floating, drifting up It’s eerie, I don’t understand Below me ants mill around There is confusion, I feel frantic I am suddenly afraid, is this? Beside me my mother long dead stands I feel … Continue reading →

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Haibun Monday #9 – After Midnight Mass

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Michael

Midnight Mass is over and we are on our twenty-minute walk home. I love Easter, as there’s always a full moon and its silver light to see by as we walk along. Its autumn and the evenings are not so … Continue reading →

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Daily Prompt – Incomplete

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Michael

Daily Prompt – Incomplete I’m glad my life is incomplete. I’m working on the notion That as I draw my final breathe I’ll have achieved some sense Of completion. But I doubt it will happen For life is an incomplete … Continue reading →

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Prompt Nights – Guérison par la foi – Faith, healing – My Love for You

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Michael

This week we are asked to share our poetic views about faith or healing. What is that one thing in your life that represents faith or the process of healing.   I can’t say what it is Its faith isn’t … Continue reading →

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Music Prompt #33 “Wade in the Water” performed by Ella Jenkins – There’s a Trouble with Water

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Michael

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_8L96E3eU   There’s a trouble with water. It can be all life giving today But take your soul the next. In the middle of the night I find myself Up to my knees in a raging torrent Walking striding against … Continue reading →

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Hump Day Poetry – Week 5 – Words

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Michael

It’s barely the middle of the week I stand triumphant on the peak Of another wonderful Wednesday. Words have flowed from my mind Down through my fingers Across the screen in a logical way. It gets like that early in … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge# 103 – Innocence a Commodity

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Michael

Image: latoday.deviantart.com The shadow spread In every direction Hidden for the most Ignored by many Because innocence was now a commodity. Those who complained of the shadow Were scoffed at, Disbelief and ridicule dominated. So the shadow thickened As innocence … Continue reading →

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Prompt Nights – When besotted with Green [8] – My Ocean of Green

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Michael

Out my back door And just over my back fence Is my ocean of green. Rich fodder crops, quickly grown They are lush and productive. In the wind waves streak across them. The farmer mows and rakes And in the … Continue reading →

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Open Link Night # 167 – Stupidity

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Michael

The learned professor Stands at the dais notes ready: “ ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’ So Forrest said all those years ago. It is true I’ve led a stupid life. Stupid decisions With stupid women. A stupid dictated to life … Continue reading →

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Hump Day Poem – The Nothing

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Michael

I am the nothing Today I hover over the abyss. I’m not going to fall in But feel safe and comfortable. When you are nothing You can say and do anything Its doesn’t matter No one is listening No one … Continue reading →

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