Her Smile (Short Story)

Her smile bordered his consciousness like a bridge suspended in thin air. Each step he took, the ground beneath him vanished. The old world hung like an ugly canvas, the paint peeled like dead petals in his fingers.

His eyes lassoed the golden image before him. Her smile was sliced in pieces like the sun and tasted like citrus against his lips. Now his limbs were tangling like roots and gravitating to the earth. The ground beneath him turned to stone, swallowing his toes, and his mind became a prisoner of the stone fortress.

Still, her smiled breathed hope into his soul and quickened every dead thing in its presence. The revelation throttled him with every step. Now his limbs danced joyously, sensing his desires were kissable and touchable. Her lips blossomed like a rose and he dipped into the glory of her love.

Acrostic Only: October

For this month's Acrostic Only challenge I chose the words Baseball, Faith, and Star Gazing.

Big leaguers
Acrobatically
Soaring
Envision
Boisterous cheers
A victorious
Lap surging
Like lightening

Footsteps
Aflight
Immersed in
Tranquil glories on
His heavenly hem

Souls seek
Truths universal
Awaiting
Revelations
Galaxies
Aglow of
Zest
Immaculate
Night angels
Grant blessings

OSI: Colors

This week's OSI Prompt is Colors. You can check out other beautiful poems by clicking on the link.



Awakening autumn breaths
Orange, yellow, and gold
On fallen leaves
And paints the bark
A deep mahogany

White clouds thicken
In a sapphire sky
Dipping in the glow
Of a tangerine sunset

Black outlines of birds
Suspended in midair
With feathers cascading
Like plum velvet

Brisk air with silver whips
Pinch pink and brown cheeks
Human shadows growing gray
In blue embers of winter

Red dusk of summertime
Rising like the phoenix
Trails the hem of sunset
Memories and feverish bursts
Ripen on an artist's canvas

Rain

This is a poem inspired by today's rainstorm.

Eternal liquid glistening
Staccato rising on ceiling
Sure and steady it falls
Drops like the tears of God
Playing notes
Of heavenly inspiration
Water of earth, man
And all creation
Unadulterated declaration
Of nature

Simply Snickers: Through the Reed

This week's Simply Snicker's Challenge includes the words read or reed and rest and wrest.

Look out through the reed
Waltzing with the breeze
We spy with our eyes
The dotted skies
Sweet ambiance
And pure reflection
Time and life
Embrace without detection
Morning's yellow glory
Wrests with night
The dawn yawns
With the twinkle of midnight

Fall

Happy Autumnal Equinox to all!

Fall
Leaves bleed
Red, brown, and gold
And the air
Crisply unfolds
A lace
Of wintry cold

The sun lingers
While naked limbs
Old tree barks
And green buds
Nestle contently
Awaiting springs lips

Pumpkin pie
Wafts high
Like smoke
From chimneys
Black and orange dye
Paint driveways
Beneath ghoulish skies

Skeleton eyes
And jack o lanterns
Gape from darkness
Like luminous masters

Cider brewing
Apples bobbing
Soon young hearts dream
Of wintry islands

As fall settles
On a bed of leaves
Her summertime sister
Drifts to sleep

Simply Snickers: Travellers

The following poem is inspired from last week's prompt over at Simply Snicker's. The accompanying painting is Samuel Prout's Travellers on a Path in an Extensive Landscape.

Canopies opening

Heavenly, celestial

Blue skies swooning

Darkened prairies

Cattle grazing

Brown rivers

Eroding earth

Travellers roll

Without time

Reclining minds

Cast their eyes

Upon eternity

Elated glories

Cascading crowns

On earthly vessels