Snack time with Moriarty and Watson

 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 8

 #AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 8

He kissed me. I couldn't believe it. 

He actually kissed me!

And then I woke up.

Damn.

© Osquer Campbell 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#kiss #microfiction #flashfiction #dream 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 7

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 7

'The Royal Box'

“My Lady, he turned. “Will you see if I’ve left my program?” He recalled placing it on the rail.

She picked it up in her gloved hand, “Here it is, Your Majesty.”

He took her in his arms, “Won’t you call me Peter?” He pressed his lips to hers.

“Peter,” she murmured, closing her eyes.

© Osquer Campbell 2022

#kiss #flashfiction #microfiction 

#AtFirstKiss Vol. 6

 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 6

"Country Waltz"

Ages of waiting came to this

For the first time could had overthrown should 

He bent his head for our first kiss 

Beer and cigarettes never tasted so good

© Osquer Campbell 2022

for Kiefer Sutherland

#poetry #kiss 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 5

 #AtFirstKiss 💋Vol. 5

I awoke

with the memory

of your kiss

on my lips

though we've never met

© Osquer Campbell 2022

#kiss #micropoetry #poetry #poem 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 4

 #AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 4

That moment when a gasp becomes a sigh...

© Osquer Campbell 26 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#flashfiction #kiss #micropoetry #microfiction

#AtFirstKiss 💋Vol. 3

 #AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 3

I dropped to the floor

in front of him,

moving closer

so that we were

knee to knee,

thigh to thigh,

hip to hip,

belly to belly,

heart to heart,

and, finally yes!

Lip to lip.

#kiss #poem #poetry 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 2

 #AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 2

His kisses went from timidly tender to exploratory to starving man with a pear with startling rapidity.

© Osquer Campbell 24 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#flashfiction #kiss 

#AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 2

His kisses went from timidly tender to exploratory to starving man with a pear with startling rapidity.

© Osquer Campbell 24 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#flashfiction #kiss

At First Kiss 💋 Vol. 1

 #AtFirstKiss 💋 Vol. 1

"Is it possible?" he asked.

"Possible..." She laid a hand against his cheek.

"...probable..." She slid an arm around his waist.

"...likely..." She pressed her body against his.

"...and very definitely true." She kissed him.

#flashfiction #kiss

Beaux Rêves

 Beaux Rêves

(for Paul Bettany 

as Dustfinger in 'Inkheart')

The room was familiar

I had been there before

In a previous dream

Now I'd come back for more

I remembered your face

Though I had lost your name

I'd forgotten the rules

And the point of your game

The steps of the dance now

A mystery to me

Though I'd once known them all

Someone's stolen the key

Every egress is barred

The door shut, windows closed

There can be no escape

From the questions now posed

© Osquer Campbell 11 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Smug Mode

 

haiku

 #haiku

It is much too hot

to write about it. Even

my parchment is parched.

© Osquer Campbell 12 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Worry Beads

WORRY BEADS

I made these from the remains of me.

I formed them out of ashes and bone.

Everyone wants to collect a fee

Though I forged them all quite on my own.

Some are blue for my poor broken heart.

Some stained grey for the shadow of debt.

Others green for the sake of my art.

Some dyed colours I haven't named yet. 

Clicking of beads and ticking of time,

Pray, what will this revolution bring?

Will there be rhythm? Will there be rhyme?

Will I finally feel free to sing?

© Osquer Campbell 10 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Micropoem

 I was early for my date 

with destiny. 

Unfortunately, 

Fate was running late 

and we missed each other.

© Osquer Campbell 10 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Who's Been Touching My Stuff?

 WHO'S BEEN TOUCHING MY STUFF?

I can feel spilled ink

sloshing around 

in my head,

staining my brain,

my hippocampus

smudged

with fingerprints

I don't recognize.

Where did these

marks on my memory

come from?

Who's been

rearranging my ideas?

Someone has gotten

too comfortable

in my own thoughts.

© Osquer Campbell 9 August 2022 🌞❤️🌻

CRUSHING QUESTIONS

 

CRUSHING QUESTIONS

I will never look into your eyes

or rather, you won't return my gaze.

I can't become the cause of your sighs

though dreams of you drift throughout my days.

Would you believe that I fancied you

if you and I were ever to meet?

Would you bother to think of me too?

Would you find fantasies of me sweet?

© Osquer Campbell 8 August 2022 

(for Brendan Fraser)

Trollsome

I invented a new word:

TROLLSOME

It's the opposite of wholesome.

haiku

bleached white and bone bare

still reaching skyward giving

itself for support

 © Osquer Campbell 30 July 2022 🌞❤️🌻

haiku

 #haiku

A seagull broods on

the busyness of the beach,

alone in a crowd.

© Osquer Campbell 24 July 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#poetry 

 Magical things do happen.

SGT Dominick Cutalo, Vietnam Veteran, on meeting Kathleen Ryan who was a young girl when she wrote a letter to servicemen in Vietnam in 1971. 

He replied and she traced him 51 years later. 

"With all what's going on in the world today this is a little bit of happiness. I can't find anything wrong at all with a little bit of happiness."

Seen on NBC News 23 July 2022. 🌞❤️🌻

haiku

 #haiku

The cats and I nap

under an open window.

The rainstorm moves on.

© Osquer Campbell 22 July 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#poetry 

tanka

 #tanka

bales stand in a field

shoulder squared against shoulder

in another field 

they say don't be such a square 

man just let the good times roll

© Osquer Campbell 20 July 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Hyades

The salt of her tears as he kissed her was the most delicious thing he had ever tasted.

for the Hyades

© Osquer Campbell 19 July 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#MicroPoem #MicroPoetry #poetry #rain #mythology

haiku

 #haiku

The grass is crunchy 

and the leaves are limp. Plants beg

me for a rain dance.

© Osquer Campbell 15, July 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Heaven, Nirvana, The Afterlife...

 Heaven, Nirvana, The Afterlife...

Now we see through a glass darkly...

I think when we die, we no longer experience what things look like or sound like or even feel like. I believe that we will know what they really are. We will be able to know the individual atoms of a leaf and the entirety of the tree, of the Earth, of The Universe at the same time.

© Osquer Campbell 27 June 2022 🌞❤️🌻

55 Word Fiction

 

Speaking Out

 I usually keep pretty quiet, but I see too much these days that makes me want to be loud.

♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🙏🏻🙏🏾🙏🏿🤬☮️🕊️

#WomensRights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ  #TransRightsAreHumanRights #UkraineWar #BLM #SayGay #Pride #FreeSpeech #Peace #love #GunControlNow

A Delightful Nonsense Twitter Conversation

 

Top o' the World Ma!

I was looking out the skylight at something Mr. C was showing me when I noticed something odd: blossoms in a tree where I'd never seen any before. Then I realized that it was the clematis which had grown up through the branches and was blooming near the top. 🌸🤯

#flowers #garden

Whiskers Wednesday

 

Van Gogh's World

 

Flash Fiction

#FlashFiction

"Is it possible?" he asked.

"Possible..." She laid a hand against his cheek.

"...probable..." She slid an arm around his waist.

"...likely..." She pressed her body against his.

"...and very definitely true." She kissed him.

© Osquer Campbell 26 June 2022 🌞❤️🌻

#MicroFiction

To The Entwives

TO THE ENTWIVES

I have known you when 

your leaves were green and supple 

as the Western wind.

I have known you when 

your leaves were brown and brittle 

as any promise.

And I have known you 

bare as the barren Winter 

in your slumbers deep.

But dearest I have 

known are the new buds that formed 

on your fingertips.

For in each season

I've loved you but most as you

woke and stretched in Spring.

© Osquer Campbell 23 June 2022 🌞❤️🌻

 

Crochet Forget-me-not Pattern

 Crochet Forget-me-not

Sport weight yarn: yellow, white, blue

Size F hook (3.75 mm)

Round 1 yellow: Magic Circle, 5 SC, cut off, invisible join (5 SC)

Round 2 white: 2 SC in each stitch around, cut off, invisible join (10 SC)

Round 3 blue: *SS, chain 3, 6 TC, chain 3, SS* in every other stitch around (5 petals)

SS in first SC to join.

Chain 13, SS to create a loop for hanging.

Fasten off.

Weave in all ends.

© Osquer Campbell 29 April 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Haiku

 Where primroses once

adorned the ditches, now they

are clad in stitchwort.

© Osquer Campbell 10 April 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Haiku

The sky that morning 

was forget-me-not blue and

so, she remembered.

© Osquer Campbell 10 April 2022 🌞❤️🌻

Branching Thoughts

 

Magnetic Poetry

#MagneticPoetry

#poetry

© Osquer Campbell 2021

Breakfast

Rewatching 'The Tale of Despereaux,' I finally realized who my breakfasts by Mr. C remind me of.

Haiku

 The cold howls at the

window pane, a frost furred wolf

hungering for Spring.

Osquer Campbell 7 April, 2021 

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth

Haiku

 The frost creeps into

my bones like an aching for

the warmth I once knew.

Osquer Campbell 7 April, 2021 

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth 

Haiku

 Great cloud shapes today,

I see a ram and a lamb...

🎶 a lama ding dong 🎵!

© Osquer Campbell 6 April 2021

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth 

Haiku

 Dandelions dance

in the chill spring breeze, faces

still bright with sunshine.

 Osquer Campbell 6 April, 2021 

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth 

Haiku

 Witch cloud bends low on

her broom as a wee dragon

tries to steal her hat.

© Osquer Campbell 5 April, 2021 

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth 

(Look to the right of the oak tree.)

Haiku

 Branches scratch at the

memories of sunsets past.

Some old wounds still itch.

© Osquer Campbell 4 April 2021

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth

#sunset

Haiku

a chilly morning

a mug full of hot tea and

a lap full of cat

© Osquer Campbell 3 April 2021

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth

Haiku

 I shared a smile

with some not so shy violets

I met by the road.

© Osquer Campbell 2 April 2021

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth

Haiku

 Getting garden dirt 

under my fingernails cleans

shadows from my mind.

© Osquer Campbell 1 April 2021

🌞❤️🌻❤️😻❤️🐔🐔

#NationalPoetryMonth

#haiku

I wrote this a few months before Mr. C and I first "met" on Twitter, before the first time he called me "Sunbeam." Feels prophetic in retrospect.

🌞❤️🌻
#haiku

#dream #haiku