Summer Green

Brand new poem inspired by photo I took yesterday - enjoy!

Summer Green

Hot, humid

August day

Blue burnished

Cloudless sky

Cool, crisp fronds

Restful, fresh

Clean, clear spears

Summer green

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 8/8/2015 7:45am

Domain of the Goddess

Because of personal family things, I haven't been posting for a while.  I will try to post more often again.

I went to an Alphonse Mucha exhibit yesterday with my friend Bea and remembered that in 2010 when I visited her in Minnesota and we stayed at a friend of hers in Duluth, I was inspired by this Mucha print hanging on the wall and by her friend to write "Domain of the Goddess". 

 

Domain of the Goddess

Step into the flow

Of the waterfall

Crystal beaded shades

Soften moonlit glow

Senseless beauty all

Around surrounds in

Colored glass hugs of

Random earth kindness

As sweet voiced guitar

Strings serenade you

© Alice Vedral Rivera 2010

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Halloween Stroll

Photo by AVR 2010

Halloween Stroll

Crackle, crackle

Dusty shadows

Crunch and cackle

Follow hollow

Pounding footsteps

Cracks of thunder

Broken branches

Over, under

Snap and scream

Spooky Doppler

The Big Bopper

Sings Chantilly lace

And a pretty face

But I digress

As trees undress

On this unholy

Wooded path

To who knows where

I stroll and stare

At the murky water

The misted river

Seems to swerve

Around the curve

Of my pretty neck

As I do swear

This wretched dream

Will be my last trek

Unnerved through this

Forest preserve

On Halloween

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 10/30/2014 12:11pm

Alive in Wonderland

I realized, the other day, that I had written 19 Poemhunter inspired poems and then I wrote 2 more.  I will be re-posting those poems to PH one at a time and I will endeavor to add my own audio to some - so far the audio doesn't seem to be taking.

FYI, I am grateful for the Poemhunter website.  It was the PH forum that taught me not to take criticism so personally and helped me overcome my fear of sharing my poetic ‘babies’.  The poets I have met and continue to meet on this site have left indelible marks on my writing by their example, encouragement, critiques, comments and forum discourses.  I have to credit the PH forum for inspiring me to write a good many of my social/political commentary poems.  This poem is part of "Shadows on the Carpet I", '
Visions' section (inspired by the PH forum).

ALIVE IN WONDERLAND

Going down the rabbit hole

Ravages one’s eternal soul

photo by AVR

Shrinking it down very small

Blowing it up nine feet tall

Living in Wonderland

Not having the upper hand

A life with integrity

It’s not so easy

Listening to the queen of hearts

Scream about some stolen tarts

More tea parties to be had

Thinking that you’re going mad

Being the underdog

Listening to a pedagogue

Say: “Live with integrity”

It’s not so easy

Floating through the looking glass

See distortion as you pass

A pathetic figurine

Wants to be a real queen

Alive in Wonderland

Where life is never bland

Living with integrity

Is not so easy

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2006