The Monarch #haiku #poem #art

 

beguiling petals

sweet infatuation

nectar’s captive

 

Kristjaan at Chevrefeuille’s Carpe Diem is always providing the most compelling prompts. The “Butterfly” has endless possibilities.

I enjoyed a morning studying, drawing and coloring the monarch butterfly.

Handful of Stars #poetry #photography

 

Beautifully hung

you reach grasping for  stars

falling on your face

when your balance is displaced

you try, you must again

*

striving for the lover’s kiss

when you open your eyes

its not her face you see

but the grains of sand

you hold in your hand

*

why are dreams so hard to hold

they may lighten the soul

but for all that they promise

they will no more light on your finger

than the monarch in flight

*

diligently train your sight

celestial up you go

tumbling over and over again

to what is just out of reach

for what surprise is a handful of daisies?

The theme today for wordpress Daily Post is Surprise. What would be the greatest surprise if it appeared in your hands?

Photograph: Sandy Heart © L. Moon 2013

Many beautiful surprises and twists:

1. A twist. | Crossroads
2. DP : What A Twist | Experimental Fiction
3. Phoneography Weekly: Drift and Fall | We Live In A Flat
4. Spill the (Coffee) Beans | Mara Eastern’s Personal Blog
5. You’d never have guessed it but… | Life & Times
6. Surprise stretch | Books, Music, Photography & Movies : my best friends
7. What a Twist! – The Angry Dwarf | Geek Ergo Sum
8. The caveman’s bedtime story | Phelio a Random Post a Day
9. a surprising twist | wannabepoet
10. It does | contrailsonmyheart
11. Daily Prompt: What a Twist! | Under the Monkey Tree
12. Darth Vader | Bright Moments Catcher
13. Daily Prompt: An excerpt with a twist | M. L. Trefry
14. Andy Devlin and the ramp. | thoughtsofrkh
15. Daily post: A twist | helen meikle’s scribblefest
16. Daily Prompt – A Twist from a 10 Year Old | The Mercenary Researcher
17. A shot at the ranch | MC’s Whispers
18. Spoiler Alert! | Conversations
19. Daily Prompt: What a Twist! The Boston Nanny Trial – True Story | SERENDIPITY
20. The Defeat Of Eddie Fishbones (short fiction) | The Jittery Goat
21. An Unexpected Reunion | The Silver Leaf Journal
22. Daily Prompt: What a Twist! | Stevie’s Words
23. Lurking | The Ambitious Drifter
24. alisha’s call | just another outlet
25. Daily Prompt..What do you do? | heysugarsugar
26. London surprises Paris | Mareship
27. Stolen Bread | Mind of a Mouse
28. Horror in the alleyway | Blog of the imaginator
29. Idiots twist | Hope* the happy hugger
30. A Piece – Court Case – Part 1 | In Harmony
31. We’d never have guessed! | Sue’s Trifles
32. Bioshock Infinite- I know you’ve already Heard it’s good, but… | Lord Aoshi’s Latest Finds
33. Surprise! | Haiku By Ku
34. Daily Prompt: What a Twist! >>> The Check List | From Ground to Home
35. Surprise | Flowers and Breezes
36. A Tale of a Portrait | Inception
37. So I hit the brakes, but the car didn’t stop. | SueAnn Porter
38. Daily Prompt: What a Twist! | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
39. Good-bye | Raivenne-lations
40. World Domination at the Pinewood Derby | A Stone’s Throw
41. Daily Prompt: With a Twist! | My Atheist Blog
42. The Blue Heron | Kate Murray
43. Daily Prompt: What a Twist? « Mama Bear Musings
44. Getting It Right | My Experiments with Words
45. Daily Prompt – twist – Suspicious minds | storyofmylife1993