Flow

[Johntee]

Crazy bone?
In England that's
a Funny one

[Johntee]

Coloured alarm
depends finespun
a thing of beauty
of side cast sun
yet coarse the net
with which it's dinner's won.

[Johntee]

Flow


The river unstepped in twice

voices from the past

seep in call out

and one

...

[Johntee]

Don't look back.
"Getting it out"
is helpfully
cathartic.

[Johntee]

A job that needs the cover of night.
What urgency fed your plight?
Cash withdrawal by dint of digger
machine and all extracted at leisure...

[Johntee]

Autumn Light





Offered votive to the evening skies,

red apples, green bough on a field of blue.

...

[Johntee]

It's surprising how viewpoint
alters with the lapse of time,
come back and the sublime
has grown a coat of slime.
Don't look back....

[Johntee]

Roadway assailed
by signs of mortality;
the out-placed toy
brief joy curtailed

[Johntee]

Are the snowbirds flying to Florida yet?

[Johntee]

Great work Bob.
Even your straight answer has me laughing.
At first sight I thought you'd said the junk by the deck
was picky about...

[Johntee]

It started life as a comment to Grant's "About to Shut"

[Johntee]

we meet
turned into two
different people.

Enhanced
Diminished
by interchange.
To stay isolate
is homeostasis'...

[Johntee]

Get Away


Gaunt show, the ribs of dawn

cirrus wisps, fly-away zone

ice-silvered herringbone.

...

[Johntee]

Outliving Elvis
Carl Perkins,
was the Original
"Blue Suede"
muse.
"But you can knock me down, step in my...

[Johntee]

If this is a "before
and after" shot
where did the pots
and deck relocate?

[Johntee]

Nature, red in berry, black in sloe,
only waits for man to go.
An eye's blink in the wrack of time
all it needs to reclaim.

[Johntee]

The final stanza takes a swerve
and leaves me shooting off the curve.
Are we to conceive this as patrimonial Eve?...

[Johntee]

Crossing the Bridge of Sighs


The courtier's art evident,

a maid has evermore been dressed

in honeyed word,

...

[Johntee]

I passed the original piece into the butcher's shop but have yet to find how the owner took it.

[Johntee]

After commenting on Alex's "Love Reflected" which is a 10 syllable/line sonnet (my lines usually being 6-8 syllables if not less) I trialed...