Tag: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie

A Curtailed Summer

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #169 “Collage Special Edition”   That year of our childhood, We picked berries, Squeezed their shiny plumpness Until their blood ran red. Intoxicated by the bitter sweetness And our summer freedom, We tottered down to the mill pond And clambered on the abandoned Lichen-stained waterwheel, Anchored in a snarl […]

Woman of the Page

A sonnet to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Night Music Prompt #52: Virginia Woolf, Indigo Girls   You were weak of body but strong of mind, At four a bookworm, a precocious child, Your father’s little Poet Laureate, Who became addicted to opiates. Illness and loss almost drove you insane, Laudanum and […]

Pampas Dreams

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille July 20th 2016 pampasgrass When I was eleven or twelve, my family lived on the top floor of a block of council maisonettes. We shared a balcony with other residents and outside our front door and kitchen window, we had two window boxes. To get to school […]

Tug of Love and Will

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #122 – Kate Maldonado   Tied by a silken ribbon Of blood they pull In a tug of love and will, Balancing, Feet planted firmly In sisterly soil, Blind to the turmoil On their life’s horizon, Unaware that soon The silken ribbon Will be cut Like the umbilical […]

The Ballad of Methuselah and Dahlia

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #118 “July 18th, 2016” Methuselah was the barkeep At the local bar and grill, Who had a presentiment For every kind of evil. Below a wall of antlers, He stood behind his counter, Struggling to choose Between life as a hunter And as a residual booze Serving guardian angel To […]

Birdsong Choka

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – July 16, 2016. Bastet has asked us to write our reflections about change either by using a Choka (formed by writing any number of 5/7 syllable couplets and ending the poem with an extra seven-syllable line) or a Shadorma (a non-rhyming six-line poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllables) or perhaps a Shadorma variation.  We should choose […]