Indigo Inkling #quadrille

It’s Quadrille Monday!

Indigo inkling.
#quadrille, #inkling,

I have an inkling that I might,
Might dream in indigo, 
Dark fractured nightmares.

I have an inkling that I might,
Be the fractured indigo dark,
That hides the monsters.

Am I the inkling,
That indigo dreams rule.
The way I share my poetry.

© 24/02/2025 rog leach

hello LillIan and all @#dversepoetspub. my head went all dark with Indigo.

re imagine

Poetics: Reimagining the Familiar

Butterfly unhinged.
#everyday, #reimagined

Unhinged I dream,
Dream of butterflies of steel,
Steel hinges, all a flutter,
Taking flight, I awake.

The beauty of hinges,
Shine @ opening the doors,
Where would we be without,
Unhinged and stuck indoors.

© 04/02/2025 rog leach

dora has invited us to reimagine something everyday @ #dversepoetspub this evening.

In limbo

Haibun Monday 2-3-25: Celebrating Groundhog Day

In limbo.

#winter, #groundhogday,  #dverse, #haibun.

In mid winters limbo I wait. Traveling the same route under grey skies. By the one- mile mark as I pass the fuel stop. I start to pine for a seaside trip. By the two-mile mark as I pass the rail station. Winters cold bites my fingers tips. A few weeks until the warmth of spring adds weight to my pining. another day the same groundhog day.

Salty seashore bliss,
Awaits until spring is sprung,
Until then limbo.

© 03/02/2025 rog leach

it’s haibun Monday @ #dversepoetrypub, all i know of groundhog day comes from the Bill Murry film . i am surprised to find out it is not a fictional day.

Creative Poems from Opticians’ Words

Tuesday Poetics: The Optician’s Words

Fairy vocals.
#fairysong, #poetry, 

No nose wrinkled,
one cause even tempers,
Were you here crone?
During our summer,
Fairy name use means flowers arose,
Near people can remove magic for sure.
Fairy vocals rise in song,
Crow verses hoarse,
see the light to renew,
Assume nothing,
Once van delivers sum-mer,
Aware that the caves are haunted,
Fairy voices rise into sea shanties,
Over cream teas.

© 28/01/2025 rog leach

Hello all here @#dversepoetspub we are creating poems from the words on some opticians test sheets.
 the words being 
nose-one-cause-even
were-crone-our-summer
name-use-means-arose
near-can-remove-sure
crow-verse-see-renew
assume-once-van-sum
aware-caves-sea-cream

the challenge being to pick one, two or all the words in order and create appoem fro them.

Hello Darkness

Meet the bar positively through negation

thanks Bjorn for an interesting challenge here @ #dversepoetspub.

The line you shared from Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17 ” I love you as certain dark things are to be loved.” it truly intrigued me. it also got me thinking of a version of The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkle by the rock group Disturbed. with the line “Hello Darkness my old friend.”

Darkness negated.

Hello darkness my old friend,+
Your embrace my home for so long,
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,*
Watching those who dwell in the light of love.

Every Monday the blues beckon,
Tedium’s embrace my home for so long,
I love the comfort of the home tedium supplied,
Never trying to keep up with the Joneses.

Cliché expectations always grate,
Chaos’s embrace greats my mind daily,
Loving the calm after storms chaos,
Watching the storms power from within.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,*
Cliché expectations always grate,
Every Monday the blues beckon,
Hello darkness my old friend.+

Never trying to keep up with the Joneses,
Watching those who dwell in the light of love.

© 23/01/2025 rog leach
*Credit to Pablo Neruda 
+Credit to Paul Simon and Art Garfunckle.