Sailing Away

Au revoir, friends and readers. It's time for another voyage away from the shores of blogging. If I come safely to the other side, perhaps we'll all meet again. Till then, best of luck to all, and much gratitude to those who have supported and cheered me through the shoals and reefs of the past.

Image: Guests from Overseas, Nicholas Roerich, public domain

Fatal Charm

Fatal Charm

Untie the leaf and let it drop.

Shrivel each wing of the stuttering moth.

Shrink the sun, let loose the dark

to stripe the sky-beast's paneled heart

heavy with more than it can hold;

let the rain come hard and cold,

each death's-head drop a memoir told

of summer's wasting, long-winded decline.

Freeze the fruit and kill the vine

that can't be mine. 

~September 2016

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Weekend Challenge

Optional Musical Accompaniment

Image: Untitled, by Zdislav Beksinkski  Fair Use
Fall Fade   ©joyannjones 2014

Left

"Don't you leave me here

don't you leave me here

but if you  must go sweet baby,

leave a dime for beer."

Left

The first time I was left

I was unborn

before I knew to flip myself

and swim upstream

to shadow's
shifting shelter in the reeds.

Leaving after leaving

set the hook,
so many hands to pull

 the finished fish out of the drink.

All that's left:
a  silver glimmer and a stink

among the weeds.

~September 2016

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Flash 55 Plus 

 Optional Musical Accompaniment

Image: Golden Fishes in a Dark Sea, 2006, © Twins Seven Seven

Fair use.