Poems

swaying her hips
she makes love to the Aten
all else is eclipsed
forgotten

Author notes: image thanks to carolinedupont.com https://allpoetry.com/contest/2788782-MAX-6-lines---IMAGE-is-prompt

primordial Earth
seeded with life's essentials
mission accomplished

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2788834-Sci-Fi-Image-Haiku-Welcome-Contest-

shrouded in twilight
they pray to their master
honor our birthright, Lord
help us grow faster

we're yearning to bathe
in your glorious rays
keeping our faith
in your life giving ways

but there's no answer
the solstice invades
no necromancer
to bring back their shades

and so they strip
laid bare by the season
roots grab and grip
branches begging for reason

green -- but with envy
for evergreen brothers
such though is life
we all seek what is others'

Author notes: wc 81 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2788878-Fantasy-1056

in life -- shrugged the stoic Ms. Hatter
there are very few things that matter
the rest -- mincing words
is food for the birds
watch out, cause their droppings do splatter

she said this, and looked at me thus
as if to convey -- what's the fuss
her eyes were unswerving
I found it unnerving
and hastily made for the bus

Author notes: image by Txema Yeste- https://allpoetry.com/contest/2787182-A-Dark- Double-Limerick--Prompt-

the haiku mand
demands
and reprimands

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2788733-Non-Sense-Haiku--Quickie--26

I couldn't bear her rude dismissal
and so kept practicing my whistle
--  pursing my lips together so, and as per her instructions, blow
now at your service, Ms. Bacall
you might say, at your beck and call

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2788595-beck-and-call

always an adventure
barely back before
colleagues calling: censure!
devastate, deplore

Washington woe welling
Xerox xenophobes
yabbering and yelling
Zealous zootropes

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2786665-Contest---Structured-Lineage---Fun-with-wor

summer
breaks down and falls
trees explode in color
evergreens masked by splashy reds
blushing

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2788519-Write-a-Cinquain-noguest

fall's weary dreariness devours
come, come, dear spring, and bring your flowers
escape old winter on the wing
I hunger for a summer fling

syllabus mastered or wait is it syllables?
what, only five left???

An alien chick from Orion
Attractive, through no lack of tryin’
A pill with a fish
Is her daily dish
Her life is like no Life of Bryan

She pines, yes she’s waiting for Kirk
Though she’s heard that he is quite a jerk
Yes, Biggus’ be better
He wrote her a letter
Like Spock he is going berserk

No fan of the dauphin
she struggles for France
while battling voices within

Not even a coffin
when given a chance
they burn her for her will to win

And dead, she's no threat
they make her a saint
a symbol of country and god

they send their regret
and damn with praise, faint
the war, it was won, was it not?

so now she's Saint Joan
it seems more "correct"
though medical doctors dissent

long gone is the throne
she fought to protect
I wonder if she would assent

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2787055-Heroic-Fantasy-204