Sterile Lace

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A Dromana street edited in Picnik (just to suit the nature of the following poem!)
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One Shot Wednesday #42
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Strained
Streetscape
Sterile lace
Grand money craft
Everyone's wrapped in their own images
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*NOTES:
1. This poetic form is called tetractys....1.2.3.4.10
2. hedgewitch has written a stunning, Italian sonnet called Compost of Earthly Delights:
This nightmare of strange bedfellows slapped into a music hall sonnet of dignity is like a walk through a sideshow alley of freak shows! Fear and fascination keep us walking! An amazing piece!


One Shot Wednesday is hosted by American Poets Brian Miller, Leslie Moon & Adam Dustus and British Poet Pete Marshall

Metal Tales

Photo by James Rainsford

Click on the photo to see a gallery of his photos

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One Shoot Sunday Picture Prompt
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Poetry Pantry #45

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A moment to hold the briefcase

Clenched

And look up

Shoppers on a mission for

Must have accessories

Text to text

Words
Travelling light

All connected by gaffa tape webs of

Oily inflation

(Imaginary of course)

And those who dare to dream
Another reality

May only see

Some pseudo

Heavenly stairway

In pseudo sunlight

A hunk of

Empty
Lifeless

Shiny metal

On the move

New pilgrims to a new Canterbury?

(P.S. I just have music in my ears!)

One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry
NOTE: hedgewitch's response this week rocked me!
The title of her post is Blue Nowhere.
A blue wind wheeling to a blue nowhere! Like a tinted reality! This beautiful poem scoops up the senses and lets them flounder, delirious in a delicious nowhere!


The Poetry Pantry is hosted @ Poets United

Passing Thoughts #14 ~ February Spellbound

Passing Thoughts #14 ~ February Spellbound
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1. Revenant by hedgewitch fascinated me with the Gothic darkness of magical poetry.
My Comment: A fascinating sense of dark drama looming into a storm! Beautiful!

2. (a) Sitting With Ghosts from Poesia Torta (Crooked Poetry) - aka Kenia Cris, is a tantalising reflection on other worlds infiltrating our lives.
It's all in the way we live our lives
and the way we sit our ghosts
at the dining table...
My Comment: O what a creative, light-hearted reflection on thoughts of more eerie beings that may inhabit our lives! Loved this!

(b) Also from Poesia Torta, I loved #441.
I need life to be hectic
so I have no free time
to think about empty spaces...
My Comment: As if in being hectic, the more unsavoury elements of life are squashed and silenced for awhile! An enchanting but dark melancholy underlines these words! Beautifully crafted!