Click up & be counted!

I nearly forgot to post yesterday… guess that whole “it takes 30 days to form a habit” adage is pretty spot-on. It was late and I didn’t add in the weekly poll either, so here it is.

Every Monday (err, mostly) I will post a poll asking you to vote on which poem & picture pair you liked best from the week prior. At the end of the challenge, I’ll use your votes to pick which entries will appear in a small book I’ll self-publish. And who knows… maybe I’m secretly tallying who comments the most for a free book giveaway. ;)*hint hint*

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1517 & 1/2

I passed a curious address..

passed, but not past it.

Can’t stop wondering

about its secrets.

What happens in the half?

Does business move at a partial pace?

Do you get taller or smaller?

Or stuck forever between time and space?

 

Sushi

Photo taken at Mikuni's in Sacramento

I don’t eat sushi but

I look at the menu

for a long time

 

tasting the colors and textures

of tiny compositions

with my eyes

Miniature romance

Miniature romance

putt putt

technicolor strut

mr. loud little lamp loves

ms. ball’s dimpled butt

Morning

nothing helps rub

the sleep out of my eyes

like a kiss on the cheek

from the morning sunlight

January baby

being a January baby, I’m

cranky on hot days, always

pining for raindrops

and stormy gray skies

swooning for sweaters

wooed by the woolen

cradling cups of coffee

watching warm days tick by

Wrappers

empty snack wrappers

on my lawn

school has begun again

kids freak me out

with their grubby mitts

and disproportionate heads

full of wisdom

Summer

Summer grinds along

clinging to all its moments

wrapping them around itself

like newspapers

memories dragging in

the sun-baked streets

making the sound of dried

weeds and dead branches

scraping against the pavement

as it goes

Violins make me cry

I used to think

it was just a violin thing

but now guitars will choke me up

must be something

in the way the strummed strings sing and

hum- vibrating at

the frequency of my tear ducts

Cityscapes at the Civic Center

Roseville Civic Center, photo from their website

If you’ll be in Roseville, California sometime between now and September 16th, swing by the Roseville Civic Center at 311 Vernon St. to check out an exhibit of 15 of my cityscape paintings! The building itself is beautiful and has a great installation of glass sculpture in the lobby. It’s also right around the corner from the Blue Line Gallery, which is usually worth swinging by as well.

And now, poll time! Remember, I’ll use your votes to help me decide which pieces to include in a printed, small-book run at the end of this project. Thanks!