A Moment’s Brilliance - Monday Mural

May 22, 2008 | Filed Under Life balance, Monday Mural, Poetry | 2 Comments 

The Monday Mural picture this week is my favorite! I have not visited many of y’all lately, busy, self-reflective - and a bit withdrawn, the two latter will pass - is passing, so I will visit soon. To see the perfect photo that sparked my thoughts - and - where it took everyone else, click here (and then click to make it larger!). Michelle, thank you for finding this one, especially.

A Moment’s Brilliance

She stood,
in her moment’s glory,
eyes downcast,
in both silent reflection
and
in struggle to maintain

for she had done it

no one said she could
no one said she would
no one said she should

her lips upturned
gave away her self-satisfaction
even as her eyes spoke of reflection

and brilliant colors
glowed from within

I knew I could
I knew I would
I knew I should

TAKE THAT WORLD!

And seconds later
the brilliant colors
of her moment’s glory,
would soften
to match her
eyes downcast,
in both silent reflection
and
in grace within

as she humbly withdrew
and rewrote her thought
to that of respectful thanks.

MeeAugraphie
05/22/08

My own abstracted light photos with the poems they inspired are found here and here and here and here and here and here. There is so much that can be seen in abstracts - if we look.

A Mermaid’s Quest - Monday Mural

April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Monday Mural, NaPoWriMo, Poetry | 5 Comments 

Prompt from Michelle at Poefusion: Monday Mural was a photo of what appeared to be a sand sculpture. A photo worth peeking at y’all, with eye’s open - and I can only imagine where it took the other poets!

A Mermaid’s Quest

She died longing for something
that was not meant to be

and, though she succeeded
in part,

weary by effort expended
she laid her head against
a spire and longed for an end

and tides came in bringing seeds
from afar

and tides went out

flowers sprouted

too late to bring a smile
to her wintered face.

MeeAugraphie
04/28/08

Brellie Poppins

April 21, 2008 | Filed Under Monday Mural, NaPoWriMo, Poetry | 5 Comments 

Michelle of Poefusion posted the most awesome prompt for Monday Mural, a painting that you really must see. It is much fun as was writing this purely fictional and, as usual, rough draft!

Brellie Poppins

I sat cross legged beneath the coconut palm tree,
(my only refuge from the wicked sun)
flood stained painting in hand

and relived the moment, fifteen short years
in the yet distant past:

Azul skies reflected sun subdued
by nature’s autumn clouds,
my brush stroked colors gentled by water
to capture the memory made just hours before:

“Use my dress, Mommy,”
she said, dragging her pink flowered dress
through daisies scattered
along the edge of our field.
“Let’s not scare the crows so bad they run away
forever, like Spot.”

And so we did –
build our not so scary scarecrow,
we paced in front and back,
peered through fingers

and I held her high so she could see
from a crow’s point of view

We declared it a bit too pretty
and raced each other back to the house
to see what we could find
(she won, you know)

She grabbed her dad’s black umbrella,
the one as big as she,
begged I open it up, “Great big”
like Mary Poppins would….

And so we sauntered back to the field,
Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousing
all the way

and with many retries and adult pinched fingers
mixed with grins and giggles unrestrained,
Brellie Poppins was born.

It took a tornado to fly her away,
and I wonder in my heart if red shoes
would have made the difference
and brought them both back home to me.

MeeAugraphie
04/21/08

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