Her thoughts drifted
With shaving cream clouds
Reshaping themselves
Like her dreams
Baby blue backgrounds
Beckoned her
Softer landings
Welcomed her
With raspberry tarts
And bubble milk tea
Embracing the orb of night
She took to the sky
S l o w l y
Rising gracefully
To the stars
De is hosting over at dVerse Poets Pub today. We are writing quadrilles of exactly 44 words incorporating the word “bubble”. Fun stuff!
I thought you were so bubblelicious
But you were nothin’ but a pez head
And I had enough marshmallow moments
Of my own
So I took the rainbow stairs
Because colour makes me happy
I sank deep
Into the cotton candy quicksand
Taking my strawberry toes
Back to earth
Just in time for tea and jelly tots
This poem is crazy
Like the shoestring licorice
That is now catapulting me
Back to chocolate clouds
You know, the ones you always dream of
‘Cuz chocolate’s better than rain
And pain
Is this insane?
Talk me down with sweet pastels
Your convincing candy necklace rope
I’ll kiss your giant wax lips
You can be my lifesaver
In green
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Originally written for Anthony Desmond’s poetic prompt “In a not so Real World”. There is a great sense of freedom when you let down the boundaries of the “norm”, giving free reign to your imagination. It’s Open Link Night at dVerse.
http://dversepoets.com/2014/11/25/poetics-in-a-not-so-real-world/
painting by Sunita Khedekar
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Beyond the realism
Far beneath the grey matter
Colours wait patiently
To be splashed and swept
Across blank canvasses
Saffron skies ready to burst
Amid forests of periwinkle
Rainbows and reveries
Lie tangled and trapped
Between soul and everything else
Kindled by a sapphire sun
We pick up the brush
Dripping with lucid dreams
And we paint
A poetic prompt from dVerse~Poet’s Pub, inspired by the beautiful artwork of Sunita Khedekar
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