Sandra felt detached, as if standing looking at herself from a few feet away. Somehow surprised at her imagined facial expression, it was certainly not how she felt. Inside she was smiling. The casket stood dark and aloof, the lid balanced on end. The face inside was ashen, smooth, parchment dry. Her mother, released from life, freeing Sandra from her years of denial. She had expected more emotion, probably not sadness, a feeling more akin to relief.
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(Image: Jose Guadalupe Posada.)
Would you like to accompany us to Lucifer station madam.
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When the explorers finally broke through the dense, green, forest covering there was a collective sigh of relief. At last we’ve found it they exclaimed. No more digging a trench by torchlight away from the safety of the camp and squatting over it, vulnerable to any creature of the night.
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life, ephemeral,
from the corner of my eye
the spectre sighted,
she drifts, part of the forest
and yet leave men’s minds doubting
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Nestled in his wings
yet unseen, the playful sprite,
plucks tunes from her hair.
Unknowing, all she hears is,
snare-drum stone midst cooing foam.
Filed under nature inspired, On the lines of romance, Self compositions, Tanka
each fragrant frond will sacrifice it’s spirit to the bee
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“Oh no, not again, Mum, mum there’s something wrong with me,”
”What’s wrong Billy,” said his mother with a smile, “and why do you keep on going to that little tree and standing in front of it?”
”Well you remember when I was three, you stood me up to it and made that mark where my head was?”
”Yeeess, why, did it bother you?”
”Well you told me that that would be half my height I’d be when I grow up.”
”That’s right dear, that’s what they say. Why do you keep on checking it?”
”Well, mum, I’m getting smaller and smaller. I was a lot taller then, I’m never going to reach twice the height that mark is now.
Filed under As you read it, Inspired by fable, Self compositions, Short story, Whimsical
When Humpty Dumpty
waved at a passing tinker
a tumble ensued.
Filed under Comic verse, Haiku, Inspired by fable, Self compositions, Whimsical
Across the verdant fields and petal-painted meadows the crystal water plots it’s steady course. At times snake-like, writhing as if to swallow itself, each turn and meander eroding and undermining fragile banks. Only the destructive hand of man can stop the river in her unhurried seaward progress.
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Ebony trees and mottly skies
contrast the walls of snowdrop white
with latticed glass and black oak beams.
Magpies peer down from lofty eaves
as cross and chevrons guide our eyes
to telltale wisps from tall chimneys.
While on the lawn at close of day
badgers emerge to take the stage
witnessed from the trees, the deer.
While yet nervous, bowed heads feed,
poised ears, black nostrils, watchful eyes
each white rump signals silently.
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