An ekphrastic poem, inspired by Peter Juvonen’s painting, Mexican Hat Dance. It’s an impossible-to-navigate party of shark’s teeth and demon tails a jigsaw puzzle of sixes but for the couple snogging at the edge of the room behind a screen that’s too short to do its job That path straight out of Joe Versus the Volcano [...]
Tag: colors
Sensed, not seen (a poem)
An ekphrastic poem, inspired by Peter Knox’s painting, Erolla. White The crowd gather Amidst the chaos they become invisible What you can’t see you can feel they are there You may detect an outline or two if you step to one side They will let you see when they want you to see Red The paths [...]
Of unwritten poems and video screens (A poem)
Sometimes, I miss the window for getting something down on paper… 1 I had a poem inside my head fully formed ready to emerge But I closed my eyes before it could find a way out So it’s still there, inside my head only now it’s hiding waiting for its time to come again 2 [...]
Colors and solutions (a poem)
Yes, I have been coloring again… No shape no sense no signal They change with the angle the illusion the inclination They prove elusive at times Despite effort and intent they are unsatisfying (13 July 2015—posted July 14)
The crayon stone (a poem)
Not actually a stone, but a crayon with many colors melted into a stone shape… I draw with the stone not knowing what shapes I’m making —the marks made as if random a feeble attempt to make art out of chaos theory I have control but not precision while the stone gradually loses its shape [...]
Wishing (a poem)
The January 25th prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, is to use an abstract word as the title of a poem, then write that poem using concrete images. This is what I came up with… The hint of a smile on her face invites me to ask for more Her [...]
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #4 (April 4, 2014)
Today's prompt: write a lune…the version developed by Jack Collum. His version of the lune involves a three-line stanza. The first line has three words. The second line has five, and the third line has three. Two hundred balloons dot the blue afternoon sky orange, yellow, green Breathe deeply now look up at the sky close your [...]
It’s ORANGE!
The other day, while looking at beds and bed frames, I walked into the Dania furniture store a couple of doors up from the place where I just bought my bed. Then, I saw it: This slice of orange awesomeness is the Avanti Lounge. The color and shape drew me in right away. Sure, there's [...]
