Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Category: Poetry
Writing, Photography, Culinary, Crafting
Beyond the Drapes
I oft’ deny a few more precious winks, To rise from down-soft sleeping place, sublime. Beyond the heavy drapes, as night moon sinks, The light is changing with each tick of time. Feeling blindly, camera case inclined and leaning close aside the rattan chair,… Continue Reading “Beyond the Drapes”
Mid-winter Song
I loll, just sheltered inches from the gray, Mid-winter bleak capitulates the scene, I wait and watch for signs of Spring, and pray! Generate sweet thoughts of tots at play. For weeks on end they gayly splashed and screamed, I loll, just sheltered inches from… Continue Reading “Mid-winter Song”
Teardrops
Trodden, verdant shafts beneath her soles Bled cool and damp and flattened here once more, Ritual oft-repeated, silenced but unfold- ing her dismay, despair and wounded core. It reached within, like sword in days of yore, To twist and grind the sorrow hidden well,… Continue Reading “Teardrops”
Undertow
Abandoned now, ‘neath looming storm-clouds gray, Banana-bunched boards, the only light, But undertow compels she cannot stay. He’d sing to her, life on review, he’d stay, Through sunniest of days and darkest nights, Abandoned now, ‘neath looming storm-clouds gray. He smiled to mask the… Continue Reading “Undertow”
“D-man’s” Decision
Again with focused diligence he trains, Some days he wanes in purpose, yet remains to bear the load, the challenge of this journey, Culminates this day, his black belt tourney, He beams with pride, a new belt girds his waist, Accomplishment, endurance, leadership embraced.… Continue Reading ““D-man’s” Decision”
Happy Anniversary
A handsome man and lovely lass were wed on New Year’s Day, in city without sleep, They loved each other truly and for life, Now, seven decades since, I ponder deep. Recalling them together warms my heart, His easy, crooning voice untrained but free,… Continue Reading “Happy Anniversary”
The Gift
Whilst gathering Christmas photos, Ingesting sugar stuffs, Of garlands hung with stockings, And tots with ne’er enough. I’m wistful in my silence, And laughing low, I sigh, As scars of scrapes and tumbles pale, with church chimes nigh. Alone at midnight’s wakening, I’m watchful for the sign of holy incarnation,… Continue Reading “The Gift”
Warmth
Warmth can be a cozy, comfy chair, Upon which thrown, a hand-knit afghan quilt, Awaiting little boys who tumble in, and there fake-wrestle for first dibs; no signs of guilt. A grandson hiding in the fort he built with tablecloths and sheets from grandma’s… Continue Reading “Warmth”
Curtain Call
We stand alert and waiting, muscles tight, Our eyes burn, focused on the stand like rays of sunlight, magnified and bright As Maestro takes the stage, baton in hand. A thousand hours since I first began rehearsing brilliant music, t’was my choice, A single… Continue Reading “Curtain Call”
Life Beneath The Canopy
Upon closer look: Unseen, teeming life ‘a-thrive’ O’oer moss-crunched wood path. Haiku Friday Photo Friday: Tiny
A Noble Life
While trudging through the forest dark and deep, I spied an eerie crossroads sight, a tree, Alone amid the leaves and crocus heaped with fervor, ‘top her rosebud roots – her feet. She once had noble lean and leafy shine, Where children found their shelter from… Continue Reading “A Noble Life”
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
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