Showing posts with label double meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label double meaning. Show all posts

Thursday, September 7, 2023

At the End

 

Base image by Tasha Kostyuk on Unsplash


obliteration

perhaps the balm of nepenthe

a million poppies

notes

This Haiga was inspired by a prompt from Carpe Diem Haiku.

https://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2012/10/carpe-diem-special-prompt-2.html

Text art and effects were added to the base image by the poet using Pixlr. You are welcome to share the Haiga, but please credit Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl.




Sunday, December 20, 2020

Dear Santa

 


Dear Santa, I don't want to set the world on fire or learn how to fly
Some places are so humid you could trim your tree with fish if you wish
The place I live is much too dry, it would seem, to do any such thing
So I tend to lean to swimming upstream with a mouth full of dust
After I import the weapons with which to arm bears and export toxic waste
My poisons inflicted on the poor, there is no way I can present myself as virtuous 

~cie~










humid and dry
import and export

after
arm
fire
fly
lean
mouth
present
seem
stream
swim
tree
trim
wish
virtuous

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Hoarfrost (Tanka)

 

Free use image by Manfred Richter on Pixabay

when we are obsessed
demanding knowledge of all
we lose the beauty
the hoarfrost in its glory
does not need explanation

~cie~

Write an explanation poem

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Electric Hunger


Electric Hunger

I’m hungry for the way your magic fingers
Inspire my imagination
Play the strings of my silent heart
Make me smile
Make me cry
And inspire forbidden longing
For your touch
Making me feel warmer everywhere
Softer
More pliant
Begging you to play me
However you want me
Flowing streams of delight
Liquid sound
A touch too much ain’t enough.

~Cie~

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads prompt:
What are you hungry for?  Tell me in 60 words or less . . . but take an extra ten if you can make me blush.

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Monday, November 17, 2014

Hungry For More

Hungry For More
I know this is the proper portion
Of tasty, healthy food
Which should be enough
To satisfy my body’s need
But I’m hungry for more
I need sweetness
Not just icing
But the whole cake
A little lovely substance
But not too much propriety
I’m sick of obedience
To rules I didn’t choose
Meat is good and vegetables fine
But what about a little wine
I crave a morsel of decadence
My need lies sweet on the tip of my tongue
My mouth waters for what I truly crave
The unspoken
Forbidden
Excruciating desire
For something I can never taste
~Cie~
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