Summer Lines Poems

Picture Prompt Poetry Contest
Sponsor-Margarita Lillico

The dog days of summer find these canines 
Of all shapes and sizes waiting in lines
It's hot and muggy out
Yet these...

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“Why would you write a poem about me?”
“Oh, I wrote more than just one poem about you”
“Why would you write more than just one poem...

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"BIRDS GATHER ON ELECTRIC LINES
 KEEPING THEMSELVES WARM Terzanelle "

Those the little birds warming themselves warmth
on standing electrical and telephone lines
together side by side one...

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Yale’s friday “spring fling” was a soggy success - both as a concert and super spreader event. My groove-spirit was dampened by weather and a...

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1) haiku* untitled:

october winds
of scattered maple leaves
~ handwritten poems


2) a three-line poem titled:

OF AUTUMN LEAVES AND ALL

a three-line poem is open to free verse, alliteration...

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Lines, Launch Angles and Curve Balls

The boys of summer 
Set up for a season of lines, launch angles and curve balls
With straight chalky lines leading...

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summer day -
heat lines squiggle and dance 
above the asphalt...

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Get some sunshine,
get a bruise,
play a game
that you might lose.

Go out fishing,
ride your bike,
skate the park
or take a hike.

Find some friends
and climb a tree,
try to...

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sharpening our pencils, mending our shoes
a man of many a shade and trade
dressing our wounds,piercing our ears
squeezing glasses of fresh lemonade

to instill in us values...

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shared relationship~food and pollination~tiger lily and butterfly  

female democrate~trail blazer in politics~a new president


yellow swallowtail ~butterfly clings to lily~summer drenching rain


  ...

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Blood red sun peeks through silhouetted pines
Lavender frosts the eastern sky
Crepe Myrtle blossoms line the drive 
Time in the hour glass marches by

The summer sun...

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Oh, garden of exotic night

    my flesh inhales its luscious tunes;

      when summer drifts, raw blooms excite

...

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My Tall, Tan, Sunflower Girl
Smelling like coconuts and cocoa butter
My eyes Follow your tan lines
..under your simple cotton dress
What must they taste like?...

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At the onset, 
A profound peace.
In chastity to silence,
Our days of joy were born. 
The lines were clear-
Or so it seemed.
We chose redundancy,
One voice, one...

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The last Bikini Tan lines of summer
Fades like autumn leaves and fall colors 
As it's being blown away
By the western Isle of Scotland winds
Now it’s...

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