highlighting night sky
sun says goodbye and departs
red and orangey kiss
The snow falling, sticking to the window pain.
The air carries a chill that could freeze the dead.
The ache of seasonal depression trying to find its way in.
Gazing at the burning fire, listening to the crackle of wood echoing, watching the flames blazing,
glowing in the darkness with deep orangey-red hues.
The dancing flames sing to me—a gentle song of old, one from my ancestors long ago.
Time seems to vanish, but I don't mind.
This is where I prefer to stay on a December day.
Plump and orangey, a craved patch kid's sight,
a mid-season's choice circumstance affair,
warmth carved out goodness, share with each other,
sweet, sour, brave, crouch, everyone will ignite,
shopping for costumes, dad picks, not mother,
as kitchen's countdown, timing does excite,
set for Hollow's Eve, where friends are aghast,
masks and mouth waits, for an event-filled night,
midst dawning light, pumpkins are a fanfare,
share with each other, warmth carved out goodness,
fright night, and pumpkin pie's sweet appetite.
"Wistful/Wishful: sometimes if a word can ever be realized, just an 'alphabet' change will suffice," ... by the Poet
The coconuts have gone awry,
and its fronds they seemed to deny,
their stumped stilts beaches pierce the sky,
an empty beach where birds fly by,
no imprint sole of surfing guy,
except I write the reasons why,
appropriate it with a sigh.
It's because of the lava flow,
in "83 nobody knows,
but then it started the big show,
at first, 'twas small and started slow,
until it grown, and grow, and grow,
the forest like a mower, mow,
night sky turned an orangey glow.
Since "83 it kept its pace,
it filled the ridge, a lengthy space,
then poured downhill like in a race,
the town lay at the mountain base,
lava came, the town prayed then braced,
home after home, place after place,
pierce a lifetime shown on their face.
The mountain lava met the sea,
wherefrom my hometown used to be,
everyone is an absentee,
all now have a new addressee,
and they are new hometown adoptees,
how can poetic words air-free,
for one who's wistful presently.
I love to rise at dawn greeting folk with a warm smile
Though if any clouds are present, I may vanish for a while
Forgive me for playing hide and seek but I like to have some fun
Because when I make an entrance folk say ‘look here comes the sun’
With my golden beams of sunshine I give a dose of vitamin D
Some bask in my rays and burn, I don’t think it’s too healthy!
I blush scarlet every evening turning the sky an orangey red
I’ve warmed the earth for hours, I’m tired its time for bed
baby star heralds
hail dawning gild glimmering
aloof flora wakes
leaves billow parting top wisp
breath orangey-red's farewell
If you’re heading outside for a task,
Just forget it. And why, you might ask?
For in New York, the air
Is so bad you don’t dare
To leave home without wearing a mask.
The day looks as dark as the night
And the smell tells you something’s not right,
So it’s best now to hide
And keep staying inside
With your windows completely shut tight.
Though it seems like we’re under a curse
And the atmosphere can’t get much worse,
Life is filled with surprise
For these orangey skies
Have provided a subject for verse.
Sweet mists of morning, and rose red mystery,
So much color all around, nothing is left to see,
Orangey mists of twilight, a tangerine surprise,
I can't see pearl stars, for beauty's in my eyes.
Golden mists of afternoon, hazy clouds in grass,
Pretty as a silken flower, though it will not last!
Deep purple midnight mists, so airy and dreamy,
Wafting in my gardens, in the moonlight creamy.
It was a sizzling summer of electric blues and vibrant hues
in a garden full of flowers inked in plushy spanking reds
a wall of buttress wood splashed with vines of green
a purple morning glory with a touch of dewy sheen
over by a mossy pond a mandarin duck of orangey blue
The sun turns amber like a big fat shimmering coin of gold
in a sky that often blushes fuchsia, pink, by a cloud's enfold
emerald blades of grass behind a white striped skunk
a gradient shade of orange, from a Siberian chipmunk
here by the royal blue bench, a vibrant peacock fans bold
It is a season of rainbow colored rain and red electric trains
in a terrace full of trellises of white, roses bright as Spain
blooming with vigor inside my bright oasis
happily connected to a Revlon kiss,
of cherry berry merry, on a girl named Mary Lou Fontaine
*Image of Lady Bug by Pixabay.
IHO We Ladybugs Who Started It
(Gender-Neutral)
My dearest ladybird,
with your orangey shield,
protecting your body when stirred,
as the creatures who languish after you,
their piquant beckons skill to wield.
Becalm, I'm not afeared ...
misterbird flew revealed.
2021 July 17
e.g., Julyme
RhymeScheme; abacbab
Structured Lines
The naked silhouette of a lone oak bleeds into the watercolour sky, as it shifts from a pale blue to a deep orangey-yellow.
Her lazy shadow creeps slowly over the ground, tightly clutching anything in its path.
As the cooling autumn Sun sinks toward the horizon he sets alight any wispy clouds who have strayed too close.
The mighty oak reaches for the yellowing blanket of sky as it drapes the Earth, and the few birds perched among her gnarled, maternal branches, sing out the day in its last fiery moments of light.
Orangey,
burnt almond hues
color
the horizon;
as Sol's chariot
like a spent
ember,
glows amber;
inking
infinite
ice crystals
with a coppery
terracotta ocher;
as
it arches and sets.
Scented Leaves
Flowery fragrance sorts divisive airflow and cooperates amidst plethoric aubergines that bathe breathlessly, brushing raised exemplars of strewn unfurled chartreuse fronds, lain in the wake of humble pattered feet enthralled in its tangy betrothed crisp path,
Ingratiating themselves against engaging tickles of countless laddered leaves being crushed, bursting citrus piquant squirts that flavors a blessed orangey tawny forest of verdurous lime greens and lemony leaflets of carpeted existence essences,
Autumn gifts a luminous prism of extraordinary combinations touching rainbow eyes to favor, and unimaginable pleasure of incalculable noses to savor, as per crowning Heaven, immerse its creation re sun-drenched over-shades lathered in a pool of multiple redolences.
2019 November 12
*1st Place*
SCENTED LEAVES
~~Kim Rodrigues
Fairies Stroke's Of Luck
Traipse taffaria fairies, comps citrine
fragrances, tis thirty orangey glean
plucked days hath November, foundation blend,
paints its labored autumns rests, well-earned friend.
Forbade naught tis these pristine fairies, gifts
kids pain brief, gather teeth hid neath pillows,
wands magical dreams, wield light, rare shrubs swifts,
primed raw fairies trainee, Greenwings, each knows.
Waned Fall grant wildflowers-stitched fairies, tell
all hibernate games and creatures stores, while
kids frolicked heaped leaves; aged viewed its hues, smile,
yon fairies whisp fringed season as chill fell.
Autumn ends twain fortnight, Jack Frost awestruck,
Blessed bounteous crop, a fairy's mint luck.
***taffaria; Fairies' wings are made of a special material called taffaria. This ultra-strong, silky and transparent material is clear at first glance but actually has all 7 colors of the rainbow in it. Red, purple, yellow, pink, blue, green and orange.
2019 October 30
*1st Place*
November Twinkle Fairy
~~Caren Krutsinger
My first spreadsheet went without a hitch
I'm delighted with everything I’d achieved,
but my new computer develops a glitch -
I'm distraught and feel very aggrieved!
My spreadsheet file has just disappeared,
my hubby Peter hears my loud scream
A fatal system error is worse than I feared -
is this the end of my ‘excel’lent scheme?
I ask my hubby what can he do
as I recount my terrible tale;
I cuss until the air turns blue
pounding all keys, but to no avail
He sits me down with a cup of tea,
and Valium to help me calm down;
but sadly all my hubby can see
the ‘screen of death’ in orangey brown
It‘s then I admit what the file was for -
a kcal counter to help us lose weight,
so I’m heading off to the candy store;
my spreadsheet glitch, I'll put down to fate!
Itch, witch, glitch or twitch Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nina Parmenter
10/21/19
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