Wellspring

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We put ink to paper

A slow release of demons

Taking up valuable space

Indigo tears dripping

As loud as rain on tin

Echoing with validation

Heart and soul precipitation

We are deafened

By our own definitions

Of tragedy and defeat

Blinded by the sandstorms

We carelessly create

Still we reach for the reservoir

Spellbound by the flow

Of this cursive dance

We put ink to paper

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Another one for dVerse. It’s been a great week. As a poetic prompt, we were asked to choose a line from one of two poems by Brian Miller or Claudia Schonfeld. The line I chose was “we put ink to paper” in Claudia’s poem. You can check them both out at dVerse Poet’s Pub.

Organic

It becomes monotonous

Like picking up sticks in the yard

Leaves falling

Right in front of you

Disintegrating dreams

Lie dormant in the compost

You turn them over

Break them down

Doubt their purpose

Throw them back into the dirt

Not even noticing

That this is your soil

The soil that you toil

To plant yourself once again

 

Inspired by this week’s poetic prompt, “In the Corner of Your Eye” by MarinaSofia.

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Beach Beggar

 

 

Not afraid to trade

Your hollowed out haven

For a spot by the sea

Salty winds ruffle your coat

Sun dappled and sleek

But you remain passive

Despite your petition for peanuts

Spirit born from these rocks

Is not wavered by the waves

For they are larger than life

Serving only as a backdrop

To your tiny hold on this world

 

Posted for dVerse Poet’s Pub, in response to “Poetics: Animal Symbolism or Antics”

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Shades of Life

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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