Opal Reflections
Perspectives through Prose, Poetry and Photography
Tag: Studio 30+
Portrait: “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune”
Surrounded, Framed in leafy green, Foraging the foliage, Startled, sensing she was not alone, Warned by wafting air of danger near, Beware! Hidden, Waiting for the frame, I spied in silent awe, Inwardly, I laughed my nervous laughter I, the unobserved observer, I, poet… Continue Reading “Portrait: “L’Apres-midi d’un Faune””
Haiku: Precarious Perch
Precarious perch Clinging; gath’ring gust is nigh, Crash – quick and lethal Written for Studio 30+ using prompt: “Quick and Lethal”
Time After Time
Images conflate, though tossed and torn, Long since forgotten, left on hooks, Wrenched away from neural nooks of memory, hanging bare, forlorn. Which rested dormant through the years, Outliving weddings, day-to-days of married bliss, They hid, obscured, through nights and years of tears, Outliving schooldays,… Continue Reading “Time After Time”
Lucid Dreams
🌲🌲🌲 He’s entering the woods as oft before, And still his heart is thumping, resolute, This path has been the backdrop to his more lucid revelations, thoughts astute. The crunch of long-dropped pine cones underfoot, Reminds him, well, that feral denizens, inhabit near, ‘neath torn-asunder… Continue Reading “Lucid Dreams”
Calendar Conundrum
Since I happily left corporate chaos behind eighteen months ago, my calendar, once overflowing with teleconferences, meetings, travel and ‘to-do’ deadlines, is now regularly sprinkled with doctor appointments, diagnostic procedures and preventative check-ups. It’s not that I hadn’t paid attention to my health when… Continue Reading “Calendar Conundrum”
Villanelle: Maysong
Their song arises to celestial realms bubbling o’er the cliff in coiling curls As hawk’s wings soar and float atop the elms. and top tall branches in the clouds entwined as ring by ring, the puffs of song unfurl Their song arises to celestial… Continue Reading “Villanelle: Maysong”
Beyond The Bubble
Globule jiggling Reflections wriggling Within black-rimmed sphere. Kaleidoscopic shimmer as images glimmer through the bubble. Horizon dipping lower, Rim receding, slower and lower still. Vision quest paced As floaters erased: My eye-view mending. Notes: Beyond The Bubble. Though retina surgery is not something I… Continue Reading “Beyond The Bubble”
Blight or Blessing?
I watch in sadness Helpless, impotent. Unable to shield My shade givers From incessant infestation. None spared; Branch by branch, Tree by tree, They all fall victim To infection. None spared, save one: Radiant, red apple tree Standing strong in southeast corner; Her green… Continue Reading “Blight or Blessing?”
Evil, Be Gone!
Words to live by, golden lesson true, Came unexpected; dousing lies, casting aside her wicked, evil spell; her ungodly cauldron brew; ‘mid bursting night-sky flares. Truth will abide: “Let your conscience be your guide!“ I wrote this cinquain*(see below), my first endeavor to… Continue Reading “Evil, Be Gone!”
Driftwood
🌊🌊🌊 It lay that morning in gaping ghastliness, aside the strangling seaweed, clumped on my solitary stretch of sand. A beached shark, whose sharp tooth splinters protruded forward, in a last gasp of survival. 🌊🌊🌊 Having just returned from a Disney world vacation, I browsed… Continue Reading “Driftwood”
Pirates’ Plunder
I knew that D-man would band them together – again – transforming the ragtag bunch of cousins into a well-tuned troop of plundering pirates, exuberantly mounting their quest. “Yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate’s life for me! Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me!”… Continue Reading “Pirates’ Plunder”
On Miracles
🎵🎵🎵 The same old butterflies returned to her stomach and her pulse quickened with uncertainty, as she turned into the familiar road that led to her mountain retreat. Her friends and acquaintances from prior years had opted for other weeks, other programs, other Directors.… Continue Reading “On Miracles”
Lighthouse in the Mist, Cape May, NJ
Bandit
Festive View from the Pub, Peddler’s Village – Lahaska, PA.
Home Sweet Home
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