Tumbling Into Deceit

 —Untitled Painting by American Artist
Ann Leggett (1941-2014)

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—Poetry by Fay L. Loomis
—Photos Courtesy of Public Domain

 

 

THEFT

red-orange tulips, purple irises
flung across the canvas

how dare they bloom
on an aqua dappled crest

how dare I long
to pluck the red one

open, black center
daubed with gold

I steal through the portal
gaze at my beloved flower

grasp, mistake my reach
tumble into deceit

tiny globes of white
fall in this forged world

 

 

 

 

SILVERED MADNESS

witches’ fingernails
scrape the edge of the sky

wind howls
through hoary caverns

goblin’s feet relentlessly
drub the earth

window-glass
eyes stare

laser of light
pierces fury

Psyche lifts
translucent veil

softens slivered
madness

 

 

 

 

MY EIGHTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY

it’s a miracle that
I reach eighty-seven years
the whys of it make no sense
the whats not much more

here I am
embracing the flawed
yet shimmering  edges
of my life

___________________

Today’s LittleNip:

LILLY
—Fay L. Loomis

There once was a girl
named Lilly.   

She lived where ‘tis
rather hilly.       

When she jogged into town           
she bobbed up and down.

Some say she seems           
willy-nilly.

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Fay L. Loomis leads a quiet life in the woods in Kerhonkson, New York. Member of the Stone Ridge Library Writers and the Rat's Ass Review Workshop, her poetry and prose appear in numerous publications; her poems are included in five anthologies, and her first chapbook, Sunlit Wildness (Origami Poems Project), debuted this summer (https://www.origamipoems.com/poets/551-fay-l-loomis/). Welcome to the Kitchen, Fay—don’t be a stranger! (And congratulations on the new book!)

Note that Fay's "Lilly" is a limerick laid out in an alternate form. 

 

For more about American Artist Ann Leggett, see https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Ann-Vaughan--Leggett/CD4978758E20444D/.

____________________

—Medusa

 

 

 

 Fay L. Loomis

 

 

 

 

 

 

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