Song of Oshun

Yasmin Hernandez, Yamaya y Ochun, 2003

Daughter of the Waters

Cerulean goddess

Your beauty shimmers

Chandelier crystals windowpane refracted

All the colors of life

Beneath your surface

Shine fairy wands

Flamboyant, joyful

Phosphorescent

A galaxy of playful stars

Fallen from the sky

To scamper among the fishes

Moon crochets a blanket

Of swells upon the wet

As you inscribe love poems

In the sand.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Artistic Interpretations with Margaret, Chelsea Bednar's artwork

and d'Verse Poets Pub, Open Link Tuesday (too late for Poetics, Interactions!) 

*this poem was written from a list of words provided by my daughter:

chandelier, fairy, scamper, shimmer, inscribe, flamboyant, cerulean, playful, windowpane, crochet (thanks so much for the inspirational words, Allison!)

December Sun (a collaboration w/Peggy Goetz)

The following post appears today, 1/29 in the Imaginary Garden With Real Toads poetry site. I wrote this Haiki in collaboration with Peggy Goetz, a fellow poet.

Thanks so much Peggy!

photo source

December sun

peeks through gray smiling

for late roses damp with dew

Petals of faded velvet

recall their glory days

She stands at the window

remembering, sighs

as soup pot boils over

Red cardinal alights

upon rusted sled

Scarlet melody wakes

summer memories

lovers walk entwined

Hearts naked dancing

with electric hunger

Fingertips buzzing

Each touch a playful sting,

kindling sleeping skin

August blaze lingers as owl

moon lights dark eastern sky

Silent, wolf moon stalks

owl among stars 

Plaintive howls in the snow

Soon pups will play in spring bright

dales as all begins again.

by lolamouse and Peggy Goetz

submitted for Imaginary Gardens With Real  Toads,  In Tandem