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Cheryl12 here. Glad to be back, looking forward to others' inspirations
 

Beware the wedge
at the edge
of your ledge.

Cicadias Cidadas’ droning-droning-droning, rhythms sawing through layers of memories to summers in central Illinois... Cicadias they were called back there back then by aunts fixin’ to fry up some taters , greazy and right tasty, slice some maders a young’n had just brought in from the garden out y...

A red ribbon is pinned
to Grandma's pillowcases.
The county fair
isn't.

Plaque Attack cheryl12 so I’m flossing my teeth a generally mindless activity  allowing ideas to get a toe hold  in my discombobulated attic  when this metaphor comes to mind about flossing plaque from between my dentals and flossing it away from my beleaguered dendrites rasp abrade scrape scrape sc...

Reflections

So I’m sittin’ here
along the Arkansas River
and ponderin’
how clear water
and invisible air
can make white bubbles.
I suppose I could Google it,
but I think I’d rather
sit and ponder
along the Arkansas River.

The Hidden Treasure Yeah, it’s me, over here in the corner under Grandma’s afghan, your first purchase of new furniture many years ago, your oaken rocking chair. Alone on the second floor of the furniture store, remember how you dithered about, comparing wood grain patterns, simplicity of design, c...

powerful images - crumbling hummingbirds, DNA retreating to the stars (my version as I don't have your poem in front of me), trees forming sap for naught... Makes me ponder... What would I do today if this were happening around me? Thanks for sharing

The crab apple tree
is loaded with pink blossoms.
A gust, and then... Poof!
The powder puff vision bursts
into talcum memories.

Yellow daffodils
peek now through knee-high weeds.
Poet must desist.