Sunscreen

I appreciate the sun

Its beautiful proximity

The light in dark places

Reflecting off the moon

Rising at dawn

Setting over water

Ending a romantic day.

I fear its end

Uncertainty at night

The cold breeze

Swept over burns

Memories of brightness

On a lonely night.

Photograph by National Geographic

Prompt by New World Creative Union's Wednesday Wake Up Call

Cento for NWCU

You are young, so young,
I can walk through lonely aisles
Always finding what I want in you.
The words aren’t right.
They never could be.
I held you too tight
And you slipped through my hands.
I poured myself into you.

Stroll with me in green -
Hard rain falls
Our twilight spins
Lost in constellation.
The fire whispers
Background jazz.
Pasts forgotten
I kiss you in your sleep.
Bright stars dimmer in the cold.

Prompt from Wednesday Wake-Up Call 26.12.12 Collage to Close the Year. We were challenged to create a work from other works throughout the year.  I chose to write a cento from my two collections, Night Poems and Haiku in the Night.

1999

At the turn of the century, I was 13

Almost half the age at which I write

I don't remember very much, except

Our bubbled drinks not quite champagne

The thrill of staying up past bedtime

And New Years Rockin' Eve, that now

I just can't watch without Dick Clark.

Image Source: Juiceboxxx.com

Posted for TimeWarp 1999 ~#WWUC @NWCreativeUnion

The Not So Singing Fish

I see the planets pink, gold orbs

Surrounding a bipedal fish

Who swam so far to stand

But still, can't sing.

His red eye tells the story

We can't hear.

Adhoc brushstrokes and

The wild lines are music.

Gills convert color into oxygen

Hitting notes heard only from within.

 

  

Image Credit: Singing Fish by Joan Miro (1921)

 

Posted for Sunday Snap Shot 11-11-12 at NewWorldCreativeUnion.

Silence

I hear lost love
In the silence;
Echoes of what were
Possibilities before
My choices anchored me
And I could not move forward
Or fall back in time.

Prompt "Silence"
by NewWorldCreativeUnion

Image Source: New Scientist