Pendant

[Johntee]

The shingled surf
The dash of spume
The grind of youth
How soon it's gone
Right on, write on
with passion

[Johntee]

Couplets construct
a necklace
of pearls.
You are acing it!

[Johntee]

Purpureal, ultra-purple
a ray beyond indigo
snaps out Puerperal
a shade beyond letting go

[Johntee]

Bob Grant KC is a year younger than me. So no, I'm ancient

[Johntee]

Water into water be one
cloud, sun, ocean or again
rain, river, ocean

[Johntee]

The last four lines were a separate entity that came to me before Chameleon and were conceived as

Would I portray it as if
there had been love

...

[Johntee]

Pendant


Three times

large a moon

low on the horizon,

the optics of illusion

a

...

[Johntee]

Chameleon


Oh chromatophore of disguise

with trembled gait to ape the sway

of leaves, the swivelled turret

...

[Johntee]

Graved and striated,
bedded of the weary earth
in Auroral dance they stand
and of the ages, wait.

[Johntee]

In competition
there's a threat.
Will you wait
or get in
first retail-iation...

[Johntee]

What sentiment is weaved upon
that libidinous loom.
Flood-tide for the fullest moon.

[Johntee]

Geometric progression
How the world was won
( Genesis 22.17 ) by man
Offspring as the gains of sand

[Johntee]

You hit back pretty quick there!

[Johntee]

Welcome

To have
and hold dear
and lose weaves
the life all must wear.

[Johntee]

With a tune to lure
like a honeycomb
the ice-cream truck
is a kids dream home

[Johntee]

This is the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
Persuaded of love, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread to find his way back
out of the...

[Johntee]

Methinks thou do protest too much.Your verses do pretty well.

[Johntee]

How did I miss this
at its first outing?
Sister Greed
was a dynamic
presence.
Thanks Fragon
for pulling it back.

[Johntee]

Impressive
and newly welcome

[Johntee]

Recall at will. Nevermore,
memory now not Top Drawer.
A word eludes a day or four
then obtrudes when no pen is near.