Withdrawal White journals empty calendars all quiet bland, proper house January sober. I need chocolate! © January 2012, by Violet Nesdoly ********************** This poem started out trying to be about something new, as inspired by Adele Kenny's Happy New Year prompt. But it insisted on whining and begging, so I let it.
Black December nights sparkle jewel box ruby sapphire, diamond, jade
Best Christmases were long ago and far away. Weihnacht? But all is wet and green; there is no snow. “Good morning, Mrs. Rempel, how are you today?” At breakfast munch the toast while carols play... sang that one in a pageant once and stole the show; best Christmases were long ago and far away. No… Continue reading Menno Home Christmas
Shopping Tis the season to be shopping at the mall to find the sales clicking online fill the mails either way ex- pensive tales. © 2011 by Violet Nesdoly ************** Here is my today's poem for my personal poem-a-day challenge for November. I haven't quite kept up, I'm afraid, with poems missing for a few… Continue reading Shopping
parallel community brown flits across path hedge sparrow on an errand black-capped chickadee flips pine-tree acrobatics instant later disappears starlings group frantic lift and land in unison as if organized by a choreographer while I stay on the outside living parallel to seagulls, robins, flickers watch them from below I’m nonentity in their rarified community… Continue reading parallel community
Summer’s memoirs written on fallen leaves colourful stories Scarecrows riding high another season’s work done pose and party time! Currant prunings last garden harvest preserves for the eyes. Plain green juniper primping for autumn with red berry baubles ************* These are Saturday's poems for my poem-a-day November. The prompts for them were a few photos… Continue reading Autumn Haiga
Mid-Sixties “Don’t be sharp or flat, just be natural” - Willie Stargell pleated skirt Everly Brothers Brylcreem hair angora your message in my yearbook …such a clever line © 2011 by Violet Nesdoly ******************* In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, I've challenged myself to write one poem a day this November. I'm using a variety of… Continue reading Mid-sixties
B.C. Children’s Hospital i Patio plants pale as the kids in blue gowns I.V. poles too empathetic or sad to bloom loud and bright. ii Cut-out words on the dividers trellis-hung pastel hopes: DREAM, FAMILY, FRIENDS, HOME, SMILE but most of all LIVE. © 2011 by Violet Nesdoly (all rights reserved)
Corporate Cuts Five years ago the cut was surgical. Just minutes with the boss and it was done a severance of sinew, muscle, bone shock was the anesthetic, then slow heal. This time they used an endless tourniquet new paradigms, objectives, letters, dates twisting his job description with new weights revealing their design by slow… Continue reading Corporate Cuts
in tutus pink, rose fuchsia ballerinas slim stamens en pointe pirouette as we applaud lovely summer’s brief plié © 2011 by Violet Nesdoly ******************* The July prompt at Poets Online was to write a summer tanka. The collection is up. Summer has a lot of angles; take a look. My contribution, the poem above, is… Continue reading summer tanka
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