Imaginary Garden

Open Link Monday is on view in the garden. I have been struggling writing poetry, for the past couple of months. A lot going on with Mom selling her home, a surgery and a lot of sinus issues(headaches). It has zapped my poetry and other creative endeavors.  The only way back is to leap in,frog like fashion of course and try, try again.  Here is one of my leaps:

semantic mood
erupts flow's focus
dolls, crayons and collected shells
once my Disneyworld

sea glass memories
toss n' turn
gently buffed
blurring the sharp points
shades of gray alluvium shake the ribbons
of red from my hair

Mica's sparks appear
loyal ripple remains
in modest nature
data bank walks through refracted light
down streets of tall oaks, ocean's breeze, and New England homes
blue logic jars muse
investigates n' collides with Sedimentary thought

red roses brighten mood
hot ash, flames flicker, igniting glowing dream
smoldering hope laps the picket fence
doll china plates encircle grand, massive Maple


paralyzing thoughts appear
like heavy stones
candles outline shadows of guests
music buffers the fortress
concrete thoughts set in time's quicksand


unkept roses, wilt and fade
clusters of purple dignity forced to bloom
tight budded dream still green
encouraging unfurled Starbursts
in lingering horizon to come into focus


death's door robbed edges of final youth
alcohol erupts families' dinner plates
words cut like knives at carnival's fun house
economic pulse like a drive-through window
expansion of dust billows
in lingered thought
fault line
scars fragile core