Showers and Flowers

Front porch or back porch,
         after a shower,
it's not the fault of bees
         that you smell like a flower.

Where the Hell Have I Been?

Since this blog is primarily my fiction and poetry, see here if you really care to find out just where the hell I've been for the past 7 months. 

Lazy Little Bitch

Trifecta Week Sixty:
Idle: 3: a: shiftless, lazy
           b: having no evident lawful means of support

I was a bit intimidated by this prompt. I don't know why. Possibly is was because I was so energetically creative that I was afraid of "idle" being anywhere in the atmosphere. Ah, the best laid plans...

The pajamas remain, daytime TV tuned in

Chips and soda, brownies and cigarettes

Animals curled ‘round about in solidarity

Sunlight glares through crystallized windows

Vitamin D blossoms useless yet welcome

The joyful execution of unexpected inspiration

Satiated to overflowing and now requires rest

Senses to settle and gather to burst forth again

Creatively drained, artistically hung-over

Or, viewed from outside, shiftless idleness

Yes, that’s one lazy little bitch

Love Eludes me

Again, inspired by Jem's poetry at A Poem A Day - "Good Morning Love"

Love poetry eludes me

As does the thing itself

Yet, as with feathered hope

Still, it serenades quietly

Majestic Silence

Inspired by my friend Jem's "A Winter's Night," this is a an image prompt. I saw this image somewhere on Facebook, and it took my breath away. 

Pure majestic license

Commanding silence

Life Is In the Embers

The Trifecta weekend challenge is 33 words for (of) "a new beginning." This is a recycled piece for the prompt.

"Gleaming Embers' by Hameed

This day is done

A thin pink vein

On the horizon

It descends behind

Treetops devour

Images in a mind

Flames lick the timber

Moments’ ashes remain

Life begins again in the ember

A Hades Day

So, yesterday I had the pleasure of reading this delightful poem, Aspects of Winter, on a Facebook friends' blog. It was created by choosing five things that signify winter without using weather. It inspired me, so I put out a Facebook call for words. It was by far the most commented on post I've had in a while. 

In case there is a need, I've included an explanation of the title from Wikipedia:

In Greek mythology, Hades kidnapped Persephone to be his wife. Zeus ordered Hades to return her to Demeter, the goddess of the Earth and her mother. However, Hades tricked Persephone into eating the food of the dead, so Zeus decreed that Persephone would spend six months with Demeter and six months with Hades. During the time her daughter is with Hades, Demeter became depressed and caused winter. 

Photography by Jim Denham

Cocoa steam puffs from the cocoon of a down comforter

Diffusing the shortened aurorean Mie scatter

Cardinal crimson flashes against the pure whiteness

Spirits' gifted remedy for the lingering darkness

The joys of abbreviated days and extended nights

Visions of sugar plums and mountainsob fights

Cocoa traded for hot mulled wine

Fireplace glows warm and all is fine