Life’s Cute Mysteries – four tercets

Billet-doux

Book from church drive

Had pressed to sepia breast

Antique handwritten billet-doux

 

Head Lines

Breaking news lines

Replicated grooves on his

distinguished forehead

 

Love

A thief that catches unaware

Robs tongue pounding its fist

In fist size fluttering heart

 

Summer

Nature’s quickening beat

From winter’s leisurely sleep

Earth shooting color in sprees

Canopy

Canopy

Curled trees
Arched to comfort those
… lying in eternal sleep

Leaving footprints
In the wind, minds
and hearts of kin

tread softly
speak gently
forgive and forget
finally

Cache

Tiptoeing
Labyrinth
Of mind’s
Alley ways
Bypassed few
Cul-de-sac

Adhered to self set
Parameters ~
Gave blind eye
To cordoned spaces
Perennially hemorrhaging
Drop by painful drop…

Sightless fish
Marinating in rose*
Guilt ~ tainted
Repugnancies swimming
In slow agony ~ hunchbacks
Of Notre Dame

Pumped vitamin D
In grief hollowed
Bones, psyching
Self to finally
Spring clean, lay
Tombstone

*rosea= skin rash

Memories

memory grabs hand
takes me down dusty
streets~ silhouettes
… impinge on mind’s
screen~flashing
deja vu moments
in a cognitive
flowing
stream
~
is this a dream
or reality
willy nilly
I go
where it
takes
me riding
Ferris wheel
of carnival life ~

 

Framed

Framed

Alive in pieces
I pick and choose

Muted subdued
Interspersed

By dawn licked
Cheery oranges

Each little piece
Carefully chiseled

Cultivated prepped
In mirrored audience

Slicking pompadour
rosy hued curls

Framed together
With infinite care

Each live mosaic tile
My composite whole
~

*picture is from internet only

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