Random Words

Random. Words.

Today's theme is no theme, because there were so many words with which to contend.  So, instead, I went random.

Three Word Wednesday's words are "dainty, tantalize and haunting,"  We Write Poems' words are a 10-Word Wordle using words from Gordon Lightfoot's Don Quixote.  The March Challenge's word is 'exploration' in honor of the birth of Amerigo Vespucci, who (in other words) came into the world in 1454.

The first poem is a 5/7/5 Haiku, the second is - well, I don't know but it has words and it rhymes - and the third is a double Wreathed Sestet.

Image courtesy of LibHdate

Curiosity Doesn’t Always Have to End in a Bad Way for Cats or Writers

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” ~E.L. Doctorow

Curiosity

gets us to explore new words

as if we were cats.

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Image courtesy of Grasshopper

O Wicked Little Sirens

Dainty mini pastries

sit in a sweet box on

my kitchen counter top.

They know my name and they

tantalize me.  Haunting.

I eat them all nonstop.

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Image courtesy of spiritalchemy

Prophesy in Dreams

I dreamt I saw a saddlebag,

and this strange saddlebag was filled

with a Windmills' Tavern bar rag,

a flag, a book on hawks, distilled

ocean water (chilled) - and a tag

in the bag said, “The Prophet’s Guild.”

A drunkard from the tavern showed

out of the blue (the code of dreams)

and said, “It seems this would but bode

quite well.”  Then he strode away.  Schemes

of themes get tarnished on the road

when owed to the valley of dreams.

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The Day of the W - Works of Art, Woodworkings and Wordles...

...and it's not even Wednesday.

But anyway ~

Hello!  Today is a wonderful day, isn't it?  Well, I think so, but that's because (drum roll, please) 1.) there's no snow and ice in the forecast today, 2.) I've had the pleasure of reading a number of really great poems already today and...3.) today is my birthday! 

I think I'll celebrate by posting some poems.  Okay...I do that pretty much every day, but still...

First, for the 4th day of the Haiku-a-Thon, I'm using the artwork prompt thoughtfully provided by SIS/Few Miles.

let’s trail Old Burro

down the red clay path to home

he will know the way

Second, Big Tent Poetry, being equally thoughtful, provided a Wordle (a collection of words culled from another source) for today's winsome poeming.  Out of the twelve words shown for this Wordle, I chose five and wrote a triple limerick.

Photo courtesy One Crafty Mumma

Danger ~ Woodwork Alert

There once was a cabinet maker

who was more of a cabinet faker.

He attempted to build

but he wasn’t too skilled

so his chests looked just like hell’s half acre.

He could never remember which blade

he should use on the lathe when he made

his doorknobs and handles -

it looked more like vandals

had been in his shop on a raid.

He said, “It’s a matter of function,

with woodworking,” but in conjunction

with each new disaster

he called for the pastor

for sacrament of extreme unction.

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Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful day, too.