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by Cheryl12
Wed Apr 01, 2020 10:25 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: registration
Replies: 2
Views: 12353

registration

Cheryl12 here. Glad to be back, looking forward to others' inspirations
 
by Cheryl12
Sat Aug 10, 2019 5:36 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic:  Four & Twenty
Replies: 47
Views: 136383

Re:  Four & Twenty

Beware the wedge
at the edge
of your ledge.
by Cheryl12
Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:54 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Summers Past – Poems of Remembrance / Regret
Replies: 24
Views: 43866

Re: Summers Past – Poems of Remembrance / Regret

Cicadias Cidadas’ droning-droning-droning, rhythms sawing through layers of memories to summers in central Illinois... Cicadias they were called back there back then by aunts fixin’ to fry up some taters , greazy and right tasty, slice some maders a young’n had just brought in from the garden out y...
by Cheryl12
Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:21 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic:  Four & Twenty
Replies: 47
Views: 136383

Re:  Four & Twenty

A red ribbon is pinned
to Grandma's pillowcases.
The county fair
isn't.
by Cheryl12
Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:19 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: MSPF -- Crappy Poem Thread
Replies: 16
Views: 31610

Re: MSPF -- Crappy Poem Thread

Plaque Attack cheryl12 so I’m flossing my teeth a generally mindless activity  allowing ideas to get a toe hold  in my discombobulated attic  when this metaphor comes to mind about flossing plaque from between my dentals and flossing it away from my beleaguered dendrites rasp abrade scrape scrape sc...
by Cheryl12
Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:15 pm
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Mid-Summer Magic Showcase
Replies: 25
Views: 47876

Re: Mid-Summer Magic Showcase

Reflections

So I’m sittin’ here
along the Arkansas River
and ponderin’
how clear water
and invisible air
can make white bubbles.
I suppose I could Google it,
but I think I’d rather
sit and ponder
along the Arkansas River.
by Cheryl12
Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:50 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: rocking chair
Replies: 5
Views: 18108

rocking chair

The Hidden Treasure Yeah, it’s me, over here in the corner under Grandma’s afghan, your first purchase of new furniture many years ago, your oaken rocking chair. Alone on the second floor of the furniture store, remember how you dithered about, comparing wood grain patterns, simplicity of design, c...
by Cheryl12
Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:42 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 18: even if
Replies: 2
Views: 14144

Re: Day 18: even if

powerful images - crumbling hummingbirds, DNA retreating to the stars (my version as I don't have your poem in front of me), trees forming sap for naught... Makes me ponder... What would I do today if this were happening around me? Thanks for sharing
by Cheryl12
Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:24 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: crab apple tree
Replies: 1
Views: 13137

crab apple tree

The crab apple tree
is loaded with pink blossoms.
A gust, and then... Poof!
The powder puff vision bursts
into talcum memories.
by Cheryl12
Thu Apr 18, 2019 9:02 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: weeding
Replies: 2
Views: 14063

weeding

Yellow daffodils
peek now through knee-high weeds.
Poet must desist.