Ocean Symphony
...Written: September 12, 2023
Ocean Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Ink Empress
“The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diol...
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Categories:
spritzes, appreciation, beauty, deep, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Secretive Rainbow Spritzes
...Amber clouds and rainbow spritzes glide through the heavens
anointing meadows and prairies with well-placed orbs of beauty
orbs that can only be seen by the fey, children, or mystics.
They can be ...
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Categories:
spritzes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Homecoming
...The morning Sara steals for Honduras
from Houston with the benefit of English,
a brown thrasher, more oatmeal than boulder,
darts through the briar like a startled fish,
snouting about the thick ...
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Categories:
spritzes, brother, home, sister,
Form: Sonnet
A Cat Calamity
...It’s another silly mixed up cat
Who doesn’t know the mood of today?
So he replays them all
Looks at the fish in the fish tank
And opens the lid too
A swift barrage of yelling and water spritzes...
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Categories:
spritzes, betrayal, cat,
Form: Free verse
Hawaiian Winds
...The humid Hawaiian heat hobbles my head and heart too,
Hitting as the Humvee high-tails past on the highway,
Sweat seeps steadily south from scalp to shoes
Convection current cooking, keep pedali...
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Categories:
spritzes, beach, mountains, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Vangogh Sunflowers
...their straw like green stem
sucks up the seltzer water in the vase
and spritzes VanGogh sunflowers...
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Categories:
spritzes, art, flower, funny,
Form: Haiku