Month: March 2014

Missing

SFoxWriting’s Alphabet Challenge ~ “M”

This is not at all what I intended to write about when this letter came around. However, a gut-wrenching image taken of the families of those missing aboard Malaysian Airlines 370 quickly changed my mind.

Conjecture
Reported as fact
Odious
Intention
Today’s impervious truth
Tomorrow denied

Fingers point
Accusations fly
Did it crash?
Did it land?
The agony of loved ones
Is not the story

Grim faces
Twist in agony
Used to sell
Articles
Grieving images stolen
Yet stories untold

Too wrapped up
In the mystery
The intrigue
The missteps
Our humanity is lost
When empathy fails

Las Vegas

Alphabet Challenge ~ “L”

Las Vegas, my favorite escape. The embodiment of love and loss, lust and luster. To complete the “L” factor, the poems below are in Lanturne form (5 line poem, shaped like a Japanese lantern, using a 1-2-3-4-1 syllable pattern).

Hi!
Nice to
meet you. Will
you marry me?
Yes!

Hopes
of wealth
Drunken dreams
Untold fortunes
lost

Skin
exposed
Sensuous
stimulation
Sex

Vast
desert
asylum
Jewel in the
sand

Kylie

The featured photo was taken of me and my daughter on the day she graduated from cosmetology school at just 18 years old.

On day 11 of the Alphabet Challenge, I celebrate my middle child, my only daughter, my favorite “K”, Kylie. Love you!

My little girl
With big blue eyes
That sparkle bright
Like summer skies.

Tiny princess,
Great big heart.
Meant for greatness
From the very start.

A scholar’s mind,
An artist’s soul,
A future within
Your own control.

You got this now
Do me proud.
Never stop living
Your life out loud!

Kylie has dreamed of a profession in cosmetology since she first picked up a brush. Immediately upon graduating high school at age 17, she began cosmetology school. She has been recognized for her achievements in make-up and hair on a national level. These are photographs of her early successes:

Make-up

Before/After

Follow Kylie’s career: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kylie-Rose-Smith/435685946511365

Jorio Poetry

SFoxWriting’s Alphabet Challenge, Day 10 ~ “J”

Given the lack of inspired ideas for the letter J, I decided to write a few poems, in jorio form, about topics that begin with this letter. Jorio poems have 4 lines, each line with 4 words.

Photo courtesy of DeviantArt.com

Jealousy
Conceived in a quarrel
Bundle of mistrust born
The green eyed monster
Lay waste to love

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Julius
My satin haired companion
My little orange shadow
Purrs like a lion
Thinks he’s one too

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Photo courtesy of NASA

Jupiter
The Jovian home planet
Adorned with vast halos
Untold satellites watch the
Red storm rage eternal

Icicle

We are 9 days into SFoxWriting’s Alphabet Challenge, the letter “I”. I am closing in on a record for number of consecutive days of posting. I hope this momentum carries even after the challenge has ended.

Icicle
Crystal javelin
Dangles precariously
Prepares to fall and shatter

Satin spear of ice
Never so beautiful as
The moment before she dies