MIND body spirit
brought together
glows through
the portal
of what we call death
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dVerse prompt on portals
Month: May 2020
Fix It
WE are going out to fix the garden
dormant ground for years
overgrown weed trees &
shrubs now tree tall
it is a miracle anything survived
in thick Texas soil
parched & cracked in summer’s
ninety degrees & climbing
our sweat pours out
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille with the word fix.
Picking Cotton
MEMORIES of cotton picking days
picked along with men and women
all over the South
people of all colors
fourteen footer dragged behind
filled with cotton
picked from each boll
start when you’re old enough
to hold a sack
sang in harmony
as we picked
infant scooting behind
too small to pick
“cotton on the roadside
cotton in the ditch
we all picked cotton
but we never got rich”
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photo from SMU Degolyer Library
Outbreak
His shadow shouts—
don’t betray yourself
stay inside
it is your alibi
months later
on a nightmare scream
he went outside
when his shadow
could not be seen
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dVerse prompt to use Maya Angelou’s line his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
Seedlings
SEEDS were small
wrinkled
dried out
until soil held them
& moisture
fed them
now
tender & true
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dVerse prompt to take a seed name and write a poem. I chose “tender and true”.
Hope to Return
Maybe at Christmas
or next year
to return to Portugal
learn the language
hike on a rugged
coastline
to the surf
of Mediterranean
or Atlantic
hope to return
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NaPoWriMo prompt to the concept of return. Last day for thirty days of writing poetry. So hoping there will be a return to traveling.
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