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