Road Trip

    Image by cyclingdutchgirl.com

I want to

get in my car

and drive

fast

down a road

I’ve never taken

before.

I want to drive

over the curve

of the world

into the sun

and glance, just once,

in the rear view mirror

at the dust rising

in my wake;

a mushroom cloud

of goodbyes.

This is for Words Count with Mama Zen at the IGRT and for G-man's FF55.  Also posted at Kellie Elmore's FWF.   Click on the links and check them out. 

The Secret Life of Socks

    Image by susandayley@wordpress.com

I wonder, sometimes,

      about the space-time continuum,

          and the economy and global warming.

             But today

I wonder about socks.

I wonder why one sock wears through

     before its mate.

I wonder where all my missing socks go.

     Is there a single sock parade somewhere

          in a parallel universe

               that I’m not invited to?

I wonder…

These 55 fanciful words are for G-man's FF55.  Click on the link and check it out.

Want a Light?

    Stanley Kubrick for Look Magazine, 1949

She holds the tension in her shoulders.

We all do;

along with the weight

of all the decisions

yet to be made.

Yes or no,

left or right,

forward or back.

A lifetime depends

on each and every one.

And now when you are old

looking back to 17

would you choose differently?

What would you change?

Where was the hinge that

swung your life?

Can you turn back

and follow your life line

like string through a labyrinth,

back to the starting point,

to the place

where it all  

changed?

Written for The Mag.  Click on the link and check it out.  Also linked to IGwRT for their Open Link Night, which you should also check out.

Nomenclature, Sort of

What do we give with a name?

What power is held within a name?

And what of the names we give our gods?

With a name so sacred

none dare speak it,

or a name so intimate,

we wear it against our skin

familiar and sweet,

in naming

our gods we define

ourselves.

Written for G-man and FF55.  Click on the link and check it out.

Who?

You come to me

in whispers of leaves 

outside my bedroom window,

soft as a moth wing

my dark love.

Memory curls around a signpost

at a fork in the back of my mind.

If I return and choose

the other path

who would nestle

between my breaths

and be

my dark love?

This is for G-man's FF55.  Click on the link and check it out!

Heartsong

     Image: Charleston Farmhouse Door

Come on in 

it's open...

Check out The Mag creative writing group hosted by Tess Kincaid.

Upon Reflection

     Image by Leovi

Listening to the world,

do we filter out distortions

or add them?

When looking through my lens

do I see enemies or

do I see friends?

What do you perceive

from the other side of your eyes

and mind?

And when the world

looks back at me…

what’s the version that it sees?

This is for G-man's FF55.  Click on the link to see more 55 word responses.  The picture here is from fellow blogger who was featured at dVerse Poets Pub.  It's too late for me to post there, but you should still have a look.  And, as long as you're at it, you should click on Leovi and see his wonderful photography blog.