Mask

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mASK me

I can be anyone you want, just

mASK me

I can be naughty or nice

Sweet or nasty

Your angel or

your whore

It's really all the same

Trick

Treat me however you wish

Pretend you don't know my name

Know my shame vanishes under the mask

So mASK me.

submitted (late, sorry!) for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Sunday Mini Challenge, Masks

inspired by a glance around our local Halloween costume store in the Women's section, where every costume, it seemed, was overtly sexual and provocative

Bloom

I planted oleander along the path to my door
You plucked one
and tucked it behind your ear

You made a bouquet
of the marigolds and tulips
and tossed it into the air; it became
sunlight

In my window box, love lies bleeding
You planted snowdrops
to stanch the blood

You stood with me
beneath the willow's branches
and waited
until the rain stopped
and the sun dripped on us
like warm, sweet butter.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Kerry's Wed. Challenge, The Language of Flowers


key to flower symbolism:

oleander - warning
marigold - grief, pain
yellow tulip - hopeless love
love lies bleeding (amaranthus) - hopelessness
snowdrop - hope, consolation
willow - sadness

Two Tanka

Fall leaves red as blood
Cling to branches like pin pricks
Biding time until
Heavy, they drop to the ground
Pooling in crimson puddles.

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The cherry blossoms
Hold spring in their clenched, pink fists
The essence of hope
Released in falling petals
Soft and shy as new love's blush.


submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Sunday Mini Challenge, My Thoughts onTanka, Pt. 2

Behind Blue Eyes

dog by scavengercat808

You peek at life through your high fence

Hide behind bared teeth and demon growl

but your eyes betray

Behind blue eyes lies the soul of a pup

who wants only to be told he's good

to feel gentle strokes upon his barrel chest

and to hear,

again and again,

that I am yours

and you are mine.

submitted for The Mag, Mag 190