In the Kitchen: Just Havin' Fun

Between Heaven and Hell, 1989 by Jacek Yerka 

Between chaos and inevitable peace
I take eggs and ham for us each
for our Sunday Easter break fast,
A stirring that should not hamper
my making a delicious repast.

The pastoral view on my left
keeps me grounded, while the cleft
of dark clouds from the scorched earth
on my right wonders if it's worth
my frantic search for an inbetween.

I'd rather look through the clear window
than step through that yawning space so near
to my back door. I think I'll have to stay in,
between heaven hell, in my own kitsch in.

-Gerry@Strummed Words

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Facing Forward

Not to be Reproduced, 1937 by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte

I watch myself facing forward,
Turn my back to the past,
Veil my features from those
who watch behind me.

I would not have you peer
unwanted, into face and eyes,
those windows of the soul
misted with a mystery

I will not share.



 -Gerry@Strummed Words

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Reflections: Poetry Jam

Reflect

My face in the mirror of your eyes

Comes back to linger,

 memories

Time gone by, an evanescent future.

Your views of broad blue waters

Outside a glass of wide recall,

deep dwellings

That run over my own warm seas.

- Gerry@ Strummed Words

for Poetry Jam 

The Artist and His Muse

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Faun, Horse, and Bird, 1936 Pablo Picasso

Horned beast, the half-man,
Part bird, part horse,
The artist describes
His muse.

A beast looking to the ground,
A winged creature flying through the air,
A four-footed animal neighing in the wind,
The artist complete. 

Or does he ponder life, the world,
and not himself, in all it's aspects?


- Gerry@Strummed Words

Origami Haiku

for Haiku Heights theme, Origami

A red flower folds
Bright pink petals in a curl
Nature's artifact

-Gerry@Strummed Words

Sea Haiku

Meal Beach, Burra Isles, Shetland by Robin Gosnall 

Sky in sea water
Sparkles over blue and green
Warms my summer heart


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A Clenched Fist: Magpie Tale

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photo by TheFoxAndTheRaven 

A song, a smile and she
opened her heart,
only to have it snatched by
a dark raven intent on a steal.

Why, oh why?
The hollow hurts where once
there was harmony
with a clenched fist.


-Gerry@Strummed Words