Weekly Wikems. Time.

Hello, everyone,

hope all's well with you.

It's Thursday, feel like writing a wikem?

June is drawing to a close. Hard to believe, but true. Should we talk the fleeting time?

I want to honor my special friends today. My three loyal companions on the wikems journey. It would have been pretty lonely without you.

Thank you for sharing a bit of the fourth dimension with me.

"Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension." (Wikipedia)


Her gems is casting Jules,
the small verse glistens. Rose
is blooming, Janet Ruth,

the faithful Janet Ruth,
her magic's weaving. Jules,
the storyteller; Rose,

the prideful momma Rose,
the rhyme queen - Janet Ruth.
"Words are like jewels," says Jules.

Gems - Janet Ruth, Jules, Rose.

  

I'm putting wikems on hold for the time being.

We are half way through the year. If you've been with me since prompt one, you've written a chapbook's worth of wiki poems!

I'm not going anywhere, though. Thank you again for being here, in this cyberspace.


Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")

P.S. I hope you'll write and share a 'time wikem' :-)

P.P.S. Green thumbs, could you tell me the name of the flower in the pic I posted, please? (Something I have in my garden, don't know what it is.)

Weekly Wikems. June.

Hello, everyone,

hope all's well with you.

It's Thursday, feel like writing a wikem?

Frederic Leighton's "Flaming June" is in New York through Sept. 6 at the Frick Collection. Visit her if you get a chance.

"Why it's called 'Flaming June,' no one knows."   
For the review that with authority "dismembers" the painting, this line is an acknowledgement of defeat.

I say, thank goodness we don't know everything. Let's enjoy the painting.

And let's talk about June today.

Here's my wikem:

GEMINI 

"...due to the precession of the equinoxes, June begins with the sun in the astrological sign of Gemini..." (Wikipedia) 

She's flaming June, she's you, the fleeting youth
wrapped in the gauze of time, a lucid dream,
the waking orange sun, reposing truth,
she's all that you may see, all things that seem
to be within your grasp, an ancient tune
forever young, she's you, she's flaming June. 



Look forward to your poems.

Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy") 

Weekly Wikems. Pareidolia.

Hello, everyone,

hope all's well with you.

It's Thursday, feel like writing a wikem?

I was browsing through NASA photographs the other day, found this gorgeous pic - "Illusions in the Cosmic Clouds":

The first word of the description was completely new to me:

 PAREIDOLIA.  Let's explore it today.

Here's my wikem: 

RAIN CLOUD

"Common examples of this (pareidolia) are seeing images of animals or faces in clouds..." (Wikipedia)


A big gray turtle in the sky,
its mouth wide open (my, oh my!),
is crawling...toward...the sleepy...sun...
Wake up!!! Wake...GULP! 
The sun is  gone.



Looking forward to your 'pareidolia wikems' :-)


Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")

image credit

"Bearly there"

Back when the world was grandma's couch
of comfy sun-kissed plush
that would dispel our biggest ouch
while springs sang softly, "Hush",

back when the teddy bears weren't toys,
but pals, when you and I
shared tons of troubles, tons of joys
and one enormous sky,

back when beginnings had no end,
before the why and how,
we used to know the truth, my friend - 
all that we have is now.



Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (a.k.a. "Happy")

prompted by Janice Hardy

Weekly Wikems. Summer.

Hello, everyone,

hope all's well with you.

It's Thursday, feeling like writing a wikem?

Although we've had a couple of on-the-cool-side days lately, here in Baltimore summer's definitely upon us.

When I was growing up, my summer would start on June 1st and end on August 31st. And so would summer vacation. No school for three long months. Eternity.

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January." - Hal Borland 
(Thanks to The Passive Voice for the quote.)


When does your summer start? Is it Memorial Day? Victoria Day? Summer solstice?..


Let's talk summer today.

Here's your wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer



Here's my contribution:

"Solstice is derived from the Latin words sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still)." 

"When on a geographic pole, the sun reaches its greatest height, the moment of solstice, it can be noon only along that longitude...For other longitudes, it is not noon. Noon has either passed or has yet to come." 

(Wikipedia)

let me linger here

today, when the sun stands still
till my noon has passed

Looking forward to your wikems.

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer ("Happy")