Poetry Portfolio

[Doc Dan]

"God scribbled her the sky" ... I like it. 

[inkstainedruth]

@essayfaire Very nice!

My husband and I went out to see the Northern Lights in a county park north of Pittsburgh.  Basically I saw columns coming up from the northern horizon (we were in the parking lot of a rental building in the park that's on the top of a hill), but they weren't all that visible (just paler than the rest of the night sky).  My husband could see some green at the bases of the columns but I didn't.  

Interestingly enough, the photo he took got more of the chroma than what *either* of us could see.  But still NOT remotely like the ones I saw growing up one time years ago from our back porch (about 50 miles north of NYC) -- those were huge long red paintbrush streaks across the sky.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

Our dear Amberlea

proclaimed no love for turquoise.

Too pale for Vegas?

 

 

[Misfit]

I started a haiku thread where we had to write them out with our fountain pens. You can find that here, if interested. 

[Doc Dan]

1 minute ago, Misfit said:

I started a haiku thread where we had to write them out with our fountain pens. You can find that here, if interested. 

That also sounds fun. My painful banged up hands means my handwriting is atrocious. I'll try to post one, though. 

 

[Doc Dan]

Gentle Butterfly

by Lanier Thomas

 

Gentle butterfly

Dancing among the flowers

Gives beauty gaily 

[Misfit]

In the hospital 

I await Mom’s surgery

the lighting is great 

 

(Because I took a photo of a pen in the surgery prep room.)

[Doc Dan]

Here's one I wrote yesterday as a joke. It was for a prompt on a FB poetry group. We had to start the poem with "If I had my time over again."

 

 

If I Had My Time Over Again 

 

If I had my time over again

I wouldn't eat that take out.

My stomach rumbled in the den

And diarrhea I had no doubt.

I ran quickly to the toilet.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it.

[T.D. Rabbit]

On 5/22/2024 at 6:28 AM, Doc Dan said:

Here's one I wrote yesterday as a joke. It was for a prompt on a FB poetry group. We had to start the poem with "If I had my time over again."

 

 

If I Had My Time Over Again 

 

If I had my time over again

I wouldn't eat that take out.

My stomach rumbled in the den

And diarrhea I had no doubt.

I ran quickly to the toilet.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it.

When I read 'If I had my time over again', the first line... I did NOT expect that. This reminds me vaguely of Ogden Nash!

[Doc Dan]

14 hours ago, The Devil Rabbit said:

When I read 'If I had my time over again', the first line... I did NOT expect that. This reminds me vaguely of Ogden Nash!

Hahaha! I hope you enjoyed it. The humor and the very unexpectedness is why I wrote it.

[T.D. Rabbit]

On 7/18/2024 at 10:13 AM, Doc Dan said:

Hahaha! I hope you enjoyed it. The humor and the very unexpectedness is why I wrote it.

I did indeed enjoy it!