Tag Archives: Wesun

The First Kiss in the 1950s – SunWinks!: Simile and Friday Writing Essential: Youthful Memories

  In the olden days A girl fifteen, going on sixteen Met a boy seventeen On a summer night Side by side they strolled On the Adriatic coast His bright blue eyes As blue as the sea She could not … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Fear –Third Version (SunWinks! October 19, 2014: Metaphor)

Angry wasps Fill my ears Wildebeests stampede Through the savannah Lions and cheetahs Ready to pounce Parched earth Ready to swallow me Burning trees Ready to embrace me Hungry vultures Descend Gasping for air I turn into A stump! Copyright … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Fear – Second Version (SunWinks! October 19, 2014: Metaphor)

I can hear the angry wasps Buzzing around And the stampede of the wildebeest Through the savannah With the lions and cheetahs In wait, ready to pounce I can see the parched earth Gaping – ready to swallow me I … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Fear (SunWinks! October 19, 2014: Metaphor)

First a flutter in the chest Then a thudding Elephants stampeding Through the savannah Sudden drought In the throat Words freeze On the useless tongue Gasping for air She turns into A statue * Copyright © 2014 Irina Dimitric * … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Looking for a Metaphor (SunWinks! October 12, 2014)

Where can I find A metaphor For my poem today? I look around I listen to sounds Of all kinds I scratch my head I enter The garden of my mind And all I find Is A desert! Copyright © … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , | 17 Comments

Funny Bunny (SunWinks! 5 October 2014: Abstract Poetry)

  Lazy Daisy Crazy Maisy What a pair! Fair is fair In the prairie Little Bunny Quite a dummy Very funny Hopping madly Hop hop hop Lollipop Up and down Up and down The prairie green Up and down Until … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 16 Comments

In the Dark of the Night (SunWinks! 21 September 2014: Playing the Field)

  Silence   I can hear my own breathing In the dark of the night Thoughts dancing the Eternal Dance The dance of whys and ifs in the whirligig of my mind Images of Innocence of  childhood joys and fears … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , | 13 Comments

On the Terrace (SunWinks! 14 September 2014: Gently Down the Stream)

Late afternoon On the terrace The sun is warming my back He’s facing me, eyes shut A jackhammer in the distance Drrrr drrrr drrrr drrrr drrrr A drill in the neighbour’s house Then a hammer Bang bang bang Rainbow lorikeets … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

A Poem is like an Orange (SunWinks! 7 September 2014 – Shuffle)

      An orange is a fruit. Fruit it is with pips. Pips, pips, pips and Juicy orange flesh It is full of vitamin C. It is good for you. Orange juice is an orange juiced, with no pips. … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , | 19 Comments

SunWinks! 27 July 2014: Ars Poetica

Ars Poetica My poem can be whatever it wants to be Free to sing Free to laugh Free to cry Free to rhyme Or not to rhyme   My poem is free and can be whatever it wants to be … Continue reading

Posted in Poetry | Tagged , , , , , | 16 Comments