Dawdling Poems

The Dragonfly

...Today in my slower world
I watched a Golden-ringed Dragonfly 
dancing in the garden: it rose and
Swooped, nearly touching my hair,
Then off again, teasing in its proximity.

In this new, dawdli...

Opal Dreams and Gold Gleams

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Written: May 31st, 2025, For contest: By Joseph May

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"The stars beckoned her song to reach the crescent moon." 
A sonata spun in silver, diaph...

moonflower

...
I …

am provenience …
the heel of my father’s foot -
the damp of his brow
and his burgeon …
I am my mother’s bloom
sown in the soil of her intentions
seeded with wonder
and promise …
but ...

Halloween Brew

...
 She said some words and blackbirds cawed
 As she stirred her cauldron to a goblin's applaud
 Her nose was crooked, her skin was green
 As her cackles echoed on Halloween

 The Halloween night...

Sampler On the Parlor Wall

...Picture on the Parlor Wall 9-27-24
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Sampler on the Parlor Wall

Shadows born from dawdling light
Stretch across a firelit room set with porcelain ...

Caring Ewe

...

In the verdant pasture perched on the hilly spine,  
ewe leads her frolicking lamb flock in the sunshine.
A lineage of woolly convoy on blithe bouncy trails,
its baaing symphony in the pastora...

Alien Observation

...Wind circulates, lifting and flattening
an otherwise, benign, breathless world, 
relying also on deeper, slowly moving
tectonics, belching foully, scattering
seas...effecting change.  Seasons lik...

Immanent Yet Transcendent

...Immanent Yet Transcendent 9-29-23
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Immanent Yet Transcendent

Above the plodding, sightless mediocre
A latent embryo breathes...

Woods Words

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Stealing away to the woods
Longing for forest’s best goods
Pines, oaks, with the gentlest streams
Flowing with beautiful dreams

Glistening like the night’s stars
Sighing praise...

Substandard Life Under a Thunderous Cloud

...Hell has opened its mouth and spit forth Apollyon.
A brutal beast wrapped in a cloak of deceit.
A grandiose idealist with evil intention.
A reaper of racism.
A shameless rapist of intellectually ...

The Lady In Green POTD

...I was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.

Lost in my work, I took it seriously, for cre...

If Time Were a Slow Thing

...If time were a slow thing
a snake shedding skins,
a lizard gradually wakening
to its life in the sunlight;
if it were a red bus
dawdling through
congested London streets,
or the backwa...

Horizon Winkling Cosmos

...wobbling
   earth
      Phoebus
          slipover
               &
            winkling
                horizon
                       mind thrums
                 cliffhanging
        ...

Our Wedding Anniversary

...Unlike as in the West, there was no dating in our time. After a formal meeting before the family members, the boy and girl will be allowed sometime for a private talk. (that too only if the parents a...

Life Could Not Be Better

...You came into our lives a spark.
A blur of chestnut red, 
Igniting us with canine love,
And nestling by our bed. 

Chasing swallows in the park 
That teased you in their flight, 
Relentlessly ...

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