Sweetbriar Poems | Examples

Faerie Fancies

Nut-brown owl nestled in a crooked tree
above the mermaid and jellyfish sea.
     Scaly horse & teacup-octopus lads
near the sea-soaked teen; tail thrashes with glee
     as her amethyst hair bobs and flows.


  Nut-brown owl nestled in a crooked tree;
leafless branches with fantasia-tendrils.
     Speckled doe, circumspect and still,
keeps eye on darling-pink faerie and her eglantine esprit—
oft spied nudging toadstools & splish-splashing lily pads.

     
Nut-brown owl nestled in a crooked tree—
eyes shut, oblivious of the gadabout show.
     Steel-eyed doe believes fowl’s not asleep but lazy.
     She’s diligent, but unlike the owl, her hearing’s hazy.
Still, champagne-wing’d sweetbriar faerie fancies
the nut-brown owl nestled in a crooked tree.

9/15/2021