APRIL-12

                                          image posted by M. Bednar

What is your name?

Green Flame

Oh are you fire?

No, desire

What is then your demand?

 The polka dot sky and the Land

And pray tell me why?

I want to grow

Till I die        

Posted for Margaret’s prompt A Child’s Voice @ Real Toads

 

APRIL-11

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Wisteria vines

Stand for immortality

With poison in pods

Political men

Promise a garden of rose

And thorns intended

Young couples get spliced

Beneath the lavender-glow

Best wishes for them

Posted for Hannah’s prompt @ Real Toads

   

APRIL-10

LEDA AND THE SWAN*

                                        

Leda And The Swan, by Odilon Redon

The white swan with its huge wings beating hard

White lilied Leda couldn’t escape that glance

The painter saw and Yeats and the blind Bard

Leda fought, bled and went into a trance

Omnipotent Zeus looked upon the Earth

Lilies shuddered and waited for the doom

While Leda laid eggs and saw that strange birth

The Earth counted days for that huge Mushroom

Shadows roam about the necropolis

 Whistling of heavy sighs still could be heard

Unnatural children grace mothers’ wombs

There are still takers for poisoned chalice

In the sky one can still spot that huge bird

In the same world lilies dream of their tombs

*Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces, or rapes, Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In the W.B. Yeats version, it is subtly suggested that Clytemnestra, although being the daughter of Tyndareus, has somehow been traumatized by what the swan has done to her mother (see below). According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus. In some versions, she laid two eggs from which the children hatched.^[1] In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.

courtesy : wikipedia  

Posted for hedgewitch’s prompt The Art Of Odilon Redon @ Real Toads

 

APRIL-9

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She tiptoes

With a faint smile

       And

Butterfly blooms

Blooms buzz

Nectar’s brimful

     Then

Petals brown

She’s scorched

 Breathless

      It’s

All a moment’s glow

Posted for Words Count With Mama Zen @ Real Toads

 

APRIL-8

ABODE

The terrace

Promises a sky

Greenery

Blogosphere

Promises my guests

Poetry

They’re my home

Where you will find me

I promise

Posted for Helen’s prompt All About Abodes @ real toads

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Shared with Haiku horizons prompt Home

  

APRIL-7

THE LONELY ACACIA

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It was a long dark journey

For a drop of life     

It drank flame with leafy mouths

To be the light

 The Tree of Ténéré*

Was the living lighthouse

To the wayfarers of sands

It was a solitary tree

That behaved like a tree

With no pretensions

Like Lithops Julli**

Nomads revered it

 No man dared hurt it

The stars forgot to twinkle

When the drunk truck-man

Knocked it down

*Tree of Ténéré, was a solitary acacia, of either Acacia raddiana^[1] or Acacia tortilis,^[2] that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth^[3]—the only one for over 400 kilometres (250 mi). It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara in northeast Niger.

**Some plants use toxins to avoid being eaten. Some use thorns, or turn into carnivores. The Lithops Julli survives by pretending to be a rock

 Posted for Open Link Monday @ Real Toads

 

SUNDAY

A gem

Each facet

Unique hue

Poetry

Music

Indolence

ETC.

posted for Kenia's prompt @ Real Toads

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shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United