Posts for 2025 (page 7)

Registration photo of Hat for the LexPoMo 2025 Writing Challenge.
Category
Poem

Spit

Distance is required 
but the path to it
elludes me

How to broach the conversation
how to renege on a friendship 

over an offence for whom I was not the target

should this be a conversation 
should it just be a fading of familiarity

Oddly I forgive you for any discomfort you caused me

But you grabbed a girl and spat on her hair
when she didn’t realize you 
grabbed and
turned her
and 
aimed 

for 

her 

face

who does that


Registration photo of Tina Parker for the LexPoMo 2025 Writing Challenge.
Category
Poem

Observations: Prisoner #45106

Good mechanical aptitude and fair
Clerical skills.
Normal intelligence;
Neurological examination essentially
Negative. Admitted guilt, showed little
Real insight and had no real
Goals in life. Therefore, not
Likely to profit appreciably
By confinement.


Registration photo of Rachel Greve for the LexPoMo 2025 Writing Challenge.
Category
Poem

Hive

Hope is a pudding-wonderful thing
in the icebox beside the grilled chicken,
a summer’s day by another name
that gyres and struts its hour
across the wabe.

Hope. It won’t disappoint, since every atom
belonging to each mermaid in trousers rolled,
as good belongs to you and me
and all the petals in a metro station
at the butt-end of a universe less traveled.

difference
like leaves in the forest
half a league on

(This mash-up of a haibun presented with thanks and apologies to Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, St. Paul, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Douglas Adams, Robert Frost, and Lords Byron and Tennyson)


Registration photo of Winter Dawn Burns for the LexPoMo 2025 Writing Challenge.
Category
Poem

*Observations and Thoughts on Sunday Afternoon

*Observations and Thoughts on Sunday Afternoon:

The cold steady rain
has pressed itself against the 
bold anthem of June
 
Nestled crickets hushed
in soggy grasses waiting 
for the Summer burn
 
A frog and raven 
rasp and bark at the red dawn 
reaching for the moon
 
The brawn of the Oak
is the memoir of Winter
Its hope, the acorn
 
©️Winter Dawn Burns

*A Quadra-ku Haiku


Category
Poem

8 (sideways)

Somehow I have managed to
End up falling in
Love with a girl who,
In this case, may
Never comprehend just how she
Absolutely saved my life

Love
Infinite
Love
Indeed


Category
Poem

Suntanning

The way the trees sway back and forth

Like they’re waving hello to each other
Being able to steal a glance at the sun
While it hides behind the clouds
How the clouds look so comfortable
Just gliding through the sky
Taking they’re sweet time
The little ripples in the water when the wind blows
While it may not always be chaotic
It is never calm, it is alive
How the wind makes my loose hairs tickle my face
Reminding me to stay in the moment
The warmth of the sun on my back
While I lay here and feel, indulge

 


Registration photo of Sue Neufarth Howard for the LexPoMo 2025 Writing Challenge.
Category
Poem

untitled

Butterflies, song birds, dragonflies, bees,
all beautiful inspiration for me,
to fuel the power to shower
inspiration that leads
to world peace.


Category
Poem

ERASURE #4

                    we float
                                
                                    on water

            recumbant

dead leaves on the lawn

On Illness, Virginia Woolf

                            


Registration photo of Cara Blair for the LexPoMo 2025 Writing Challenge.
Category
Poem

On Being From “Cincinnati”

Dialects
are forgotten

across the river
 
Still I can’t help 
but let the words
fall from my tounge 

Despite all the years
I spent pretending 
my heart still points 
towards home 


Registration photo of Philip 'Cimex' Corley for the LexPoMo 2025 Writing Challenge.
Category
Poem

Welts Appear

and it’s my first awareness
of my latest offering
of the glorious red

the stealthy journeyman
sought me out
from across the apartment

plumpening up
on my essence of life
to sustain its own

no matter where i sit
there’s eventual itch
like how the fuck did you find me here

then a laugh
’cause i’m creeping toward worship
of your sheer persistance

male loneliness spreads
like random blood smears
on the mattress

who needs to bring a girl by
when i have you
always here at home with me

proboscis in my flesh
i can maybe accept a tariffed irritation
overlook shadows you bypass order in

all for an entity
that will always chase after me
because it actually wants to keep me around