When this becomes regular to all of us, I will no longer need to write it, but my comments about the snippets of verse and the pictures are after them on the bottom of the page. Enjoy!
Chasing a Ghost
A flaming red wasp rushes
From a black semi-circle
In a silver-gray post
Bumps a blossom and pushes
Aside its royal purple
To chase an invisible ghost.
Seeping Fountain and Blue Phlox
The seeping fountain slips
Through a growth of moss and drips
Onto bead-diffusing rocks,
Sprinkling patches of blue phlox
With its cold and lucid drops.
All righty then, here we go. The picture at the top was taken at the shooting range at the Fulton County fairgrounds like the other sunset photos in the last post. Usually, the unnamed knob (at least to me) and the tops of trees on the edge of the field are in the pictures, but this sky could not bear the contrast against the stark blackness of their shadows, so I raised the picture above them. The lines here are soft, delicate, and feather-like.
I have had no inspiration to write lately, so, as I noted in the previous blog, I am stealing bits and pieces from poems I think I shall never revise. I am changing the bits around some, and since they are not long enough for songs themselves, I am forming them into what I hope are worthwhile tidbits of thought. Maybe eventually, these morsels will work their ways back into longer poems. Who knows?
The second photo is obviously not a picture of a sunset. Kellie and I walk at approximately the same time every day. As you can tell, there was no hope of taking a sunset picture on this day. Notice that the lights are on at the buildings up on the hill--and are reflected in the water. However, no buildings are visible through the fog, not even a hint of their outline
In the second short verse, I wanted the phlox to be laughing, and I wanted it to be wild and purple. Purple is Kellie's favorite color, and, on our many hikes, we encounter more purple phlox than blue. I assume it is all wild. Sadly, the wild, laughing, purple phlox did not work in the verse even though I tried.
Please entertain me with your comments below!
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