Day of Wine & Chocolate

April 7th challenge

chocolate
silky intimate
comforting melting enveloping
dark milk white rosé Rioja
liberating accentuating intoxicating
crisp cool
wine

inspired by a comment from Doug Metz

April Cusp

April 6th challenge

snow banks in retreat
driveway full of muddy trenches-
gloves empty of hands

snowmelt fills potholes
frost heaves in the road relax-
robins fill the yard

thermometer fills
noontime walk without a coat-
spring sun warms the stroll

deck empty of snow
spring time sun warms empty boards-
dog takes place of snow

April Fools

April first challenge

Eyes wide mouth agape
Recognition slowly dawns
Lips purse and eyes slit

Exquisite Agony of Defeat

April 5th Challenge

Sparring
With live ammo
Emo poet's verses
The gauntlet thrown the game begins
I blink

It's a Wonder!

April 4th Challenge

Alice left for Wonderland
Precisely late for tea.
RIDICULOUS! the Red Queen screamed,
Inciting Tweedle Dee to
Leap upon the croquet pitch

Flamingoes scattered far and wide!
Oysters paused and gazed aloft
Unmindful of the Walrus' cries
Resplendent in his vest whilst
The Carpenter smiles wryly and rubs his callused
Hands. (Cheshire!)

Soldier's Triptych

Pride and rage and sorrow
three emotions wage a war
to fill the Father's heart.

Fife and drum and bagpipes
three musicians keeping time
as the Son makes his return.

Heaven earth and hell
three stations in the journey
that the Spirit will endure.

This Grain of Sand

We huddle on this grain of sand
set in an endless sea
with national allegiance
as our first priority.

Our arbitrary boundaries
we patrol from month to month
just to see another nation
won't abscond with our free lunch.

There is another way to live
upon our grain of sand
in which we don't divide ourselves
in arbitrary bands.

Together we look upward
into that endless sea
and dream of epic voyages
spelled out in poetry.

If we join hands and share the dream
we're bound to rise above
this humble little grain of sand
the key is simple. Love.