instead of
playing soccer versus palm trees,
romping like baby turtles over white-washed sand,
get wet in “love me ocean” arms
instead of
drinking your azure blue treasures
and drowning splish-splash in your boyish smile
life hit me
like an avalanche
one-fifty miles per hour
oxygenated suffocation
before we crash
snow-swept
haven’t linked up with Galen’s friday flash 55 for a while – but today i managed to say it in 55 words…
>trophies
of a working week,
piled on
the bedroom floor
like artwork,
a tower of sweat,
profit or loss
& raw mornings,
scratching dark sky
cotton-smooth,
growing moonwards
& somedays i dream
i’d buy the world
sock-empty,
black wool
off-thread &
feather-free
i unbalance my soul
& walk barefoot
for the rest of my days
give it a try and say it in 55 words.. i’m linking up with galen for
g-man’s friday flash 55
>dripping
grooves
sustained
on
your neck
got ya
beat-filled
(& how does love sound)
always
high pitched
hard riffed
with you
& us
filled up
string-rapt
tab-kept
(& what makes us move stressed)
gently
thumb-plucked
scale-rocked
(getting real – getting on)
all ways
with you
and us
drag me
lick-switched
be-witched
skywards
a music prompt in 55 words..
i’m linking up with Galen for g-man’s friday flash 55 and with
the One Stop Poetry music prompt – join us, write a poem inspired by the breath-taking guitar piece “Always with me, Always with you” by Joe Satriani
>
i need a rest,
a grass green moment
in a purple dress
a heart to beat against mine
da – dumm – da – dumm
a veil of pollen spread on my eyes
and lightblue tunes
singing soft songs
breathing against my breast
netting my lips with moist
morning dew, e r u p t i n g
when our tongues start to dance
flamenco
yeah – try and say it in 55 words.. i’m linking up with galen for g-man’s friday flash 55
(..and in case you care for a read, click the above player)
>tonight we dance,
dance the year
like firework
like moonwalker
like emulsion
neglect where we come from,
forget where we go
hang on to the stars with
odd smiles; silent orbits
washing down,
rubbing eternity with
skinned elbows, emptying
all our pockets
to be filled, filled again
once we land or choose, drifting
in space..
what can you say in 55 words? i’m linking up with g-man’s friday flash 55
>what I’d take to this lonely island..? guess
my alto sax 4 bluesy moments, the Book of
him, who keeps my feet from stumbling (the
roots, you know…), 2 or 3 of the old poets who
survived more than just their life & maybe some
duct tape 4 fixing my shattered heart before
- buried beneath sandcastles -
i may find wings
what can you say in 55 words? linking up with g-man
>dragon-flight into my heart, pinpoint landing on a
platform, built of black coffee & wet rain. what
you leave when you leave is much more than
charcoal-dusted smells of blazing fires, consuming
treasures, i didn’t know about, getting lost beneath
piled sugar cubes of hopes & dreams.
today i shout crystal-frost into silence & breathe
oxygen-less
what can you say in 55 words? linking up with g-man
>spinning, dancing, gliding,
heading north to touch the pole,
aurora borealis luring, stepping
on the edge.
and how i wanted her, so fallen
into fragments, diffused
in northern lights, encircled in
my snow storm; crystalline and
deeply longing, kissing me with
blood red lips
& what was left of me,
fell to the ground
in syllables
what can you say in 55 words? linking up with g-man
>(out of balance)
i saw you lurching down
the road, unsteadily steady
shifting
your weight back – up – aargh!
and forth – oh no – and.. yes
i envied you balance the
imbalance, bereft of poise, and yet
withstanding gravity‘s forces, lurking
for your downfall – a matter
of (what) time. left? wishing
i had some of your equilibrium.
what can you say in 55 words? linking up with g-man
>your waves reach
my shore and
the endless
murmuring tides
of open waters
outpour into
a starlit nightsky. flooding
the edge of eternity, breathing
and bridging my disconnection
into unity. what
is lost,
my lostness
(and who could count the stars?)
in the space before
silence
smiles; our wheels spin right
beside the moon
what can you say in 55 words? jump over to g-man’s friday flash 55 to join in or read more
