Liberty, Equality, Humanity
Pink
petals wild blown
accumulate in drifts
fill gutters,
kerbs billow into puffed up pillows.
Bared bottom leaves tilt up
and wiggle, pale undersides
frolic nude.
Baited by sunlight,
naked limbs are dared
to risk exposure
so piercing beams,
when whisked up
with sea-cooled gusts,
buff white skin
pink.
CLP 01/05/2018
Pink and pale pink, white
Vibrant in the city’s heart
Nature subdues man
CLP 17/04/2018
International Haiku Day
(Who decides?)
Can you hear the knocking?
Reverberating,
Fading thocking?
Nature’s glockenspiel.
CLP 04/03/2018
A fatica
Mi distacco da te
e nel pensiero
dell’ultima ora
ti porteró nel cuore
(M L Fagnocchi, Ravenna, fulgida d’oro)
– – – – – – – – – – – –
And finally
Amidst accumulated
Alpine snows
At the last hour
You open your heart to Love.
CLP 05/04/2018
In response to a rather challenging http://www.napowrymo.net challenge, i.e. photo, poem in a tongue foreign to the writer, interpreted in native tongue to the rhythm of the original.
the IMMUTABLE FAMILYIntroducing by special invitation for one night only
Also featuring
MOTEL MATCHES
and
CLP 03/04/2018
N.B. The prompt today from http://www.napowrymo.net being a list poem using made up (punk) rock band names. If any of these are names of real bands good luck to you. If you want to name your band after any of these fictional names, be my guest.
n.b. Motel Matches would be a great band name, but it is the title of a cracking song by Elvis Costello. You can find it on his album Get Happy!
1-2-3-4!!!
Off tops of greening trees
Across fresh flowering fields
Over rushing muddied streams
I hear her.
The broad expanse of
Verdant chalk down rolling
Rounded curves and valleys
Carry her voice.
She wheels above
Unseen against high bright sun
In glaring blue
Feathered fingers, arc’d wings
Float in thermal pools
Circular drifting
Her broadcast presence
Pierces the vivid canopy
Slices uncurling bracken
Stabs sticky dank litter
Where others’ ears
Who know this buzzard’s crying
Freeze in fear.
CLP 02/04/18
This poem is dedicated to George Monbiot http://www.monbiot.com
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