I am present
in this photo
of an empty chair
I am still
steady and enduring
not rocking
I am the eye
that sees
an oddness, a beauty
and presents it
in a frame
to you
now you
are present
too
pic and poem by rachel mcalpine
daily prompt for Daily Post https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/present/
from bubble to cloud
from surf to souffle
to fermentation and fizz
in the sea on a screen
on a plate in the sky
in bottle and brain
this froth has kissed me well
and will do still
when lather turns to mist
——–
poem & pic rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
A good thesaurus does not simplify the hunt for a word: the hunt is an experience in itself, complicating, elaborating, elevating and mocking your earnest wish to get it right.
Daily prompt for The Daily Post, 9 Feb 2018: Simplify
with such devotion
one by one
you kill those baby caterpillars
pic and poem by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
Daily Prompt from The Daily Post: Tend
follow
the Way of the Wife
the sermon on the tea-towel
——
When I read these instructions on how to be a good wife, I’m bewildered. Somewhere, sometime, a woman wrote these words, that’s not in doubt. But did she write it for the money, knowing there was profit to be made from self-improvement books even a century ago, or was she slyly and cynically undermining her lord and master?
Pic and poem by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
Daily prompt from the Daily Post, https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/bewildered/
do do do do do do do
now stop
and be
pic and poem by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
closed and furling
flowers retire
into a future world
pic and haiku rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 