What is that stuff all over your back, dog?
In the slime is a white ball.
Gross botfly larva OUT.
Another kimo poem. 3 lines with 10-7-6 syllables. A kimo poem is supposed to be an image. I hope it isn’t too disgusting an image for you!
Our senior dog had a lump in her back that appeared and grew over the last week. She scratched it open today, and in cleaning and examining it, I discovered a parasite. 😦 I was going to attach a photo, but really. You don’t want to see the hole in the poor little dog or the 8mm critter that was in the hole!
poem- better out than in September 1, 2022
poem-peaceful August 31, 2022
Curled up comma, figure in curly fur,
beside me, softly snoring,
my happy puppy dreams.
This is a KIMO poem. The kimo has a single image, no rhyme, 3 lines, with 10-7-6 syllable count.
poem: night lights
Night stars aglow:
happy dream light.
Wordy 30 is a poem form that’s come out of the Wordle craze. It’s a poem made of 30 letters, in six 5 letter words. If you write one, put a link to it in the comments!
poem- empty the recycling August 30, 2022
Angry men are glass
When they shatter
Their shards slice:
they destroy what matters.
They cut up lives,
lose the love they amassed.
poem- I saw a shooting star August 29, 2022
I saw a shooting star
.
Last night
while letting out the dog:
a streak across the sky.
The dog squatted in the grass while
A weary traveler burned through our
atmosphere.
My upward glance made me a witness
and I must say, that meteor’s end
made midnight
magic.
poem- change in the wind August 28, 2022
Perhaps, this may be
the last back to school autumn
With next year’s falling leaves,
will I too be leaving
on the breeze ?
Black out poem 3 August 27, 2022
Black out poem 3 reads as follows:
I pass
on
melodrama.
My show.
I wave time.
I bind a problem.
I lock my smile
I burn this sign.
.
.
(Note the use of the poetic device anaphora in the last 4 lines (i.e. beginning the lines with the same word)
Black out poem 2 August 26, 2022
Black out poem 2 reads as follows:
I see you.
You look to her.
(There were good books).
You take my hand.
We reach a tie, sure
in this glance.
.
Commentary:
So, the line “There were good books” is really a contextual juxtaposition. What’s going on? Is the speaker separating her real life with books and imagining a different ending? Is it all happening in books? Do the books somehow alter behaviour of the speaker and her love interest? What do you think?
Black out poem 1 August 25, 2022
“Black out poem 1” reads as follows:
if I faint
Let me go.
stop me
carry me
smile
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