
Today is World Poetry Day. Denise Levertov (1923-1997) British-born American poet, known for her anti-Vietnam war poems in the 1960s and 1970s, which…
Celebration: A Poem for World Poetry Day

Today is World Poetry Day. Denise Levertov (1923-1997) British-born American poet, known for her anti-Vietnam war poems in the 1960s and 1970s, which…
Celebration: A Poem for World Poetry Day
BLUE JEANS Antique in time, from the seventies, a pair so fine, I remember I put them away, blue Jeans for another day. A touch faded were they, …
BLUE JEANS
“Friday’s are inheritable freaky, aren’t they? Hence the term, Freaky Friday, because you’ll never know, what kinks the weekend may bring…” Gun Roswell’
Eerie on a Friday
The early hours of the morning
Came, with a dire warning
The powers that be, were none too happy
And sending down, weather oh so crappy
Which was their way of utter kind of revenge
On to the lowly populous down on the ground now clenched
There was no sunshine to be seen
Alas also, no stormy clouds, on the skies kind of pristine
Only an eerie, soggy, all compassing shroud
Could be felt, across the people, the land, and all around
The visibility next to none
The kids, gloomy, loosing their fun
What kind of living could this be
Since there was nothing or no one to be seen
Yielding to their horrific fate
The dwellers down below resorted to prays
Trying their all to sooth down the tall
For several long hours of wait
The gods above, started to hesitate
Maybe then had been way to harsh
For the people living on the soggy marsh
Waving their hands of power
The fog, the mist, the eerie, was soon devoured
By a low glowing ball like thing
The light, which softly stated to sing
The surroundings soon starting to change
Into something more pleasant with less pain
The people below now thanking the gods above
A lesson with great price learnt
As the message “Never again, take you weather gods for granted”, was sent
“The bangs are too long, when they stop only at your nose, then it’s time for a trim” Gun Roswell
Need a Haircut
When the hair just keeps on growing
And it is, way past that time of showing
Soon enough, some scissors need to be into the mix throwing
Certainly, will not be as easy, as lawn mowing
But if you really want a trim of the layers of multiple hair
Then better yourself adventure to some hair specific fare
Where the barbers will there be plenty of
Choosing should be easy without much of a scoff
Finally loosing all that winter filled hair wool
The feeling of lightness will totally and utterly fool you
As the hair so heavy, is all but a memory forgotten
With a new spring in your step, towards the summer you’ll be hopping

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In the Post Office lobby. Got to love this town. Broad Street Post Office, Charleston, South Carolina.
Found On A Walk

Barreiro, near Lisbon, March 2020 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 19 March 2020 Posted as part of Norm’s Doors
Non-identical twins, and the elderly neighbours

OK, so the opening image doesn’t look all that chaotic. It isn’t. It’s what people expect and indeed like to see. A place for everything and …
Lens Artists Photo Challenge – Chaos

Flame Skimmer Dragonfly — Image by kenne Watchout For The Headwinds
Flame Skimmer Dragonfly — Watchout For The Headwinds
“The spring sun, came out for some fun and brought up, tall shadows” Gun Roswell
Winter Shadows
As the spring time approaches
It’s time to dim down the torches
The sun getting so high
Up in the bright blue sky
It is so unusual and unexpected
Almost as if everyone somehow neglected
Is the brightness and lightness of it all
Because ever since the time of fall
Darkness was all these creatures would know
But now, as the warmth and sunshine descends
Over the land, minds and souls start to reflect
All those happy thoughts one could do
When the nature and mankind alike
Start their journey out of the blue
Stepping into the now blinding light
Shedding their winter gear just out of spite
For, spring, followed by summer
Can never be, a total down letting bummer