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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-01-15 03:08 PM

TURNING ON A TAP
August 1998

In the dimlit stableyard,
wind shattered the column of water
trying to flow from the tap.
Moon caught the broken column and its scattered droplets
in a dazzling display.
Wind and moon and water
danced for me
and a stablecat
one moment
on a blustery winter night.

Owl

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

1 posted 2011-01-15 03:11 PM

loved your vivid imagery and the words you picked for your poem...masterfully done!

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

2 posted 2011-01-15 04:39 PM

I'm envisioning that stablecat grinning and watching the show. Nice wordplay.

Intolerant people are the people who do not believe the way we want them to, which makes us intolerant by default.â€”July 26, 2010

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-01-16 12:06 PM

Thank you, Faith for your kind words.

Giggles, Jerry. Thank you.

Owl

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2011-01-18 03:13 AM

It takes a true poet to write fantastic poems about the little everyday things in life and do it so beautifully.
Ida

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2011-01-18 10:45 AM

Your bring forth the beauty of a moment in time. Well done, Diana.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

6 posted 2011-01-18 10:57 AM

Great snapshot and capture of the mood of the moment. I thought of you yesterday when our bunny peeked his nose out from under the hay he had burrowed under. I knew that moment wouldn't have been lost on you.
Lori

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2011-01-18 04:19 PM

Thank you, Ida.  You warm the cockles of my heart with your kind words.

Thank you, Karilea.  I am glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you, Lori, most especially for the mind picture of your darling little bunny’s precious little nose peeking out of the hay.  You are SO right.  I am smiling from ear to ear and am trying not to unzip the top of my head, and giggling in delight at the picture.  I have never had a bunny, but have held them.  They are so soft and gentle and cuddly.  My grandchildren in Australia have bunnies.

Owl

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