Bird Seed--Twitter Poems

Tweetspeak Poetry, the fullsome webspace curated by the gifted LL Barkat, was borne out of Twitter poems, concise lines of poetry confined to 140 spaces.  I only attempted this beginning last Spring and finished my last poem in the Fall. 
Many of these lines are responses to photo prompts ('Starry Night' and so on), others just me trying to wrap words around my life.
It's way too much fun--you should try it.
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Jump rope skipping
wide door open
fragrance wafting
blue sky calling
children laughing
Spring kinda day.

Apr 21 (After Easter)
The day is empty tomb new
wide open and blazing white
with possibilities.

Here's to all the women walking busward
bags in hand, kids in care,
hard work and hope on the horizon.

Grey girders gash against the crowded sky,
filling my birds eye blue view
with dollar signs
on a horizon of diminishing returns.

Spring...death come to life,
beauty buried in bark
against a blue sky,
dreaming of green

March 23rd
Trapped in educationese
translating myself out of a corner,
I bring the child with me
but you'd rather bury us with words.

March 19th
When the flowers waltzed
back into the room
the darkness danced away.

March 18th
Ochre red feather duster
against a gray cotton sky.
Soft Spring surging.

March 16th
Reading forsythia,
preface to Spring,
 telling me there's more to come.

March 14th
Why the swirling curling
colors of sky?
Was Vincent looking for North
and lost his star?

Aug. 5
Noisy books calling 'Read me!'
I grab each spine & confine them
to their basket-y space
To Get Something Done.
I hear whispers still...
The sound of happy
is rain falling,
dropping,
tapping
tipping the watery scales
leaf-wise on this
quiet, shushing morning.
(for my son's birthday)

What the Birds Say-A Winter Poem


You could say
(and you would be correct)
the mottled, colorless sky
leaves one bereft of brightness
this time of year.
You could say (see above)
the empty, lifeless branches
are dull, dormant gray/brown
slender swords against
said mottled sky.
You could say (well, you know) 
there's little beauty 
in such poor adornment,
small pleasure in the drab and drear view.

On the other hand, consider~
this backdrop reveals the birds best,
awakens ones eyes to their
blazing joy
as they dive into their days
zooming messages across the sky
and voicing these words
with their flying song,
"Faithful, faithful, faithful."
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I'm beginning to think Winter is my favorite season as I watch the birds.  Merry Christmas!

Show and Tell

Write the world a story
--one of your very own--
with a beginning like no other.
Paint a picture only
you can paint
with brushes dipped in days
and nights of  liquid life
when it pools and puddles.
Illustrate the middle and 
tell us how it is,
with all the color, the light,
the dark and all the in between.
Catch the drips and let them dry,
make the most of the mistakes.
The last of the story is yet to come,
awaiting a frame
and at last the view 
as we step back and behold 
the work of art
that is your life and The Artist's
signature which says,
'The End'.
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This poem was inspired by a note on my daughter's refrigerator which I snapped during our recent 11 hour painting marathon at her house.