Sympathy

Sympathy

Sometime make the time to drink a vintage port.

Anchor yourself in a chair on your deck

and pitch conversation,

over tiny crackers, Stilton cheese,

and walnuts in a bowl.

Fill your glass.

Navigate

the marrow of memory

to a place where it links

to your store

of stories.

Fill your glass.

Sink your teeth deep

into dark chocolate.

Perhaps,

a slice of Bosc pear with brie?

Fill your glass.

Tell the tales.

Tumble tears.

(Reminisce ‘til only

the deck rail

can help you

to stand.)

Fill your glass.

Soak

from your heart,

the stern shards

of loss.

And you’ll see, my friend,

vintage port

makes for a most comforting wake.

Ah yes, fill your glass.

This poem is for the Sunday Whirl, Weekly Wordle # 68.  The instructions are to create a poem using the following 12 words:  port, marrow, deck, store, rail, wake, anchor, pitch, link, stern, sink, navigate.

If you’d like to learn more or see poems written by others, click on this link:  http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/wordle-68/

Photo is mine.

Pin Ball Machine

Pin Ball Machine

Life
has a strange way
of falling
through the sublime
into the wayward frenzy
of a ball rolling down
a rough channel.

Always
after robust attack,
it will settle.

Life.


This poem is a response to Wordle #67 from The Sunday Whirl, a poetry prompt suggesting the use of twelve words to write a poem:  frenzy, strange, ball, rough, falling, robust, settle, wayward, sublime, channel, attack, life.  You can learn more about The Sunday Whirl and read other responses at:
http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/wordle-67/

What Comes Next

What Comes Next

When housewives return
Christmas balls to the drawers,
when the old year's gone...
subtracting months from eternity,
when the New Year's rind falls
off, and entices happy wishes...
then,
and then,
there is something that spurns
the ignorant
(caught celebrating),
as yet unaware of the stings
that await,
when they bite
into the pulp...
of what comes
next.


This is a poem I wrote for The Sunday Whirl, a weekly wordle for July 8, 2012 using the following list of given words:  housewives, ignorant, rind, spurn, subtracting, fall, months, sting, drawers, eternity, balls and year.  The Sunday Whirl is a poetry prompt site which you can link to by clicking here.