Raspberrys to yawl.

https://dversepoets.com/tag/see-you-at-the-movies/

thank you, Lillian, for a fun prompt this evening @ #dversepoetspub. where you are talking about the razzie awards hopefully my limerick is not a razzie recipient.

Raspberryโ€™s yawl.

#razziespoem, #dverse.

They were the lonely ladies of raspberry city,

Lived alone and only ever spoke a little ditty,

Until they each drank a raspberry cocktail,

Then chatted so much they forgot to exhale,

Now their appearance looks awfully shitty.

ยฉ 08/11/2022 rog leach

Moonset #prosery

moonset

MOONSET. #PROSERY

I am a lover of the moonlight.  Dressing in black with heavy white makeup most nights. My friends of evening do not recognise me in my lacklustre office attire knowing me as knight. My work colleagues unaware of my nights as a wandering poet.

Once upon a drunken endeavour my real friends and I discussed our grave markers and what we wished written upon them. Sat in a restaurant sharing an evening meal with oodles of red wine joking it was blood. We saved our obituaries on the social media group we share as friends. Sky street is its name.  sharing stories of life, love and death.

โ€œIn the street of the sky night walks. Scattering poems.โ€ Will appear on the plaque above my final resting place. Where I have asked to be entombed at the moonset on the anniversary of my timely demise.

This piece of flash fiction was written for a prompt left at #dversepoetrypub by Linda Lee on 07/11/2022

ยฉ rog leach

the line “In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems.” is from the poem tulips and chimneys by E E Cummings.

Scarecrow harmony #Quadrille

#Fowc harmony

De from whimsygizmo hosted #dversepoetspub this evening prompting a scare.

I have also included the word harmony from #fowc.

bring out them heads

Scarecrow Harmony.

#Quadrille (scare), #fowc (harmony)

Twas a dark and scary night,

At the scarecrow harmony,

Building night of the next,

Generation.

Two headed harmonies,

From plastic Halloween head ideas to,

Next yearโ€™s scarecrows made in spring,

This consecrated Halloween party,

Is scarecrow harmony,

On a dark and scary night.

ยฉ 31/10/2022 rog (scarecrow) leach

culture clash #limericks

This evening Punam is hosting letting us know about the language crossover words between Indian languages and English. Punam has given a list of us to choose from I have gone with Hullabaloo, Shampoo, juggernaut and bandana. so, while India and other Hindu around the world celebrate Diwali. I have gone with a light rhyming form which I enjoy the limerick.

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There was a bear called Hullabaloo,

Who could not bear to use shampoo,

Spending his days eating honey,

Always sticky and finding it funny,

His mother knew not what to do.


 There was yoga juggernaut called Yogi,

Who was to heavy and slow to boogie,

She Took to wearing a bandana,

Before learning to play the old Johanna,

Now when she dances, no longer a rookie.

ยฉ 25/10/2022 Rog Leach

Blank page #poem

Thank you, Luara, for a truly challenging prompt tonight here @ #dversepoetspub. it has given my brain a workout. A roundabout was the challenge. i nearly had a

BLANK PAGE

Across, across virgin snow,

As blank as the page,

My pen must walk,

Before we talk,

As blank as the page.


Why does my ink rage?

When rhyme is ad-hoc,

Driving round the twist,

Breaking my wrist,

When rhyme is ad-hoc.


When I ink this page,

My footsteps walk,

Virgin snow kissed,

Now Iโ€™m pissed*,

My footsteps walk.


Pen held in my tight fist,

Writing hard now,

No more blank page,

Without the inkโ€™s rage,

Writing hard now.

*Pissed used in both English and American meanings.

ยฉ20/10/2022 Rog Leach