Challenge: The perfect ten.

[Icingsugar]

Fuel the fire
I'm nobody's Phoenix
I will not rise

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Like a flame
gone astray
from wick
flutter
and disappear

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Playing with matches,
was educational.
Sampling your fire,
sharp, sensational.

 

[eagleyez]

this howling wind
wakes me early
rattles my bones
you.

 

[Angeline]

beneath the howl
sighs soft sibilant
warm southern breeze

 

[Guest]

Beachcombing

low tide
ring-around-the-jetty
flotsam
jet sum
get some.

~~~888~~~


We three
inseparable
tricycles and grazed knees
dungarees and giggles


Dark days
early nights
no evensong
or lingering light.

Arrowheads of geese
Heading south
Endlessly calling
“I am here”

 

[HomerPindar]

We three
inseparable
tricycles and grazed knees
dungarees and giggles

I love this one, it is so reminiscent (outside of my bad spelling) of childhood in ten words...really good stuff that

HomerPindar

 

[Angeline]

Sunday Morning

egg yolk
sun still
comforted
in coffee
splashed
awakening

*****

12 strings peal
gentle chords
morning smiles
crooked wry

*****
bad bad
newspaper
airplane sails
out the window
flies away

 

[eagleyez]

sunday morn
first train
clacks
and whistles
and dings bell.

 

[eagleyez]

just dark
frost already
windshields crystal
but i aint cold.

 

[Nick Urfe]

can't be
unhealthy, unnatural
feels fine
happens all the time

 

[Angeline]

never duck
standing tall
here
too late
not to
fall

 

[The_Fool]

Dog
Lifts her head
Tail thumps
Goes back to sleep.

How noisy
Is a house
In the dead
Of night?

In sleep’s repose,
Even the most devilish
Child
Looks angelic.

Reach out
While she’s sleeping
Light caress
Still get smacked.

What makes
Night hard to release
And morning
To welcome?

Tired eyes
Fogged up brain
Comfortable pillow calling
Good night

 

[Guest]

Slow grind of ink stick
quiet meditation.
just breathe
silence


Smooth paper field
waiting
sudden
broken lines of bamboo
bending


Paisley patterns
silver leaf. filigree frosted
windowpane
at sun down.

 

[jthserra]

morning

morning
the moon is sun
its shadow
reflected
in daylight

 

[Icingsugar]

climbing through
naked twig webs
luna watches
over you

 

[eagleyez]

awoken
in the old country-
and recognize
so very
much.

__________


7th fret
has a buzz.
channelocks-
a new g-string.

____________

day
upon
nite
upon day.

that delirious
moon,

our reflection.

 

[Angeline]

oh
moon
june
croon
tune
spoon
crazy
lazy
loon
afternoon

***

fortune
and men's eyes
my good fortune
treasures yours

***
when in the chronicles
of wasted time
recycle moments

***
shall i compare thee
to a summer's day?
a winter's tale?

***
play strip shakespeare?
ok.
sounds win-win
to me.

 

[eagleyez]

violins and guitars
swooping melodic wind
cuts to the soul.

 

[eagleyez]

suns almost gone
shades of henna outside

vague darkness
glows.

 

[perks]

skinny dark lover
wanna taste your caramel
with balanced fingers

 

[Guest]

freshly powdered mountains
skiers look forward
I
too.
for spring.


the snow came
but
the plough didn't
socked in again.

Found
one small pail
shells
sand
and memories.
Summer children.

 

[Angeline]

season measured
in love
so bright here
you say
bring sunscreen

 

[eagleyez]

this
brilliant
sun

your lite
never sets

i need sunglasses

 

[Icingsugar]

Please,
shine here.
Just remember;
illuminate your
own shadows
first.

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Pass the sugar,
pass the cream,
pour another,
settle, beam.


This morning
you're the sun.
You woke me
like noone.


Pull curtains
unleash light
you and coffee
erase the night


Lips on forehead,
hands over mine.
Sunlight whispers
"Lovers...shine!"

 

[eagleyez]

clementine
just a sliver

sandman
hath deliverd-

dreamers dream love.

*************

 

[Angeline]

it's not
a dream.
it's real.
can you
feel
it?