Two Zucchini Flowers - A Word Challenge

You have me feeling as green as a zucchini
I’ve had lovers before, you and many more
But I’m a girl at heart; I don’t want to be seduced
I just want to be enchanted, so enchant me

My heart opened like a zucchini flower
But then you dropped me like a zucchini flower
You hit me with a zucchini flower
When I refused to cook for you last night

The memories of the good times will hold me
Though your fraying love for me has thrown me
You use to sing to me of blue goodbyes, over open skies
You use to enchant me

It began on a Sunday, as affairs often do
We went to the markets,
you juggled three zucchini flowers, dropped one
And I fell in love with you

Later, you kissed me in the garden
And we lay down in the summer sun
The sweet scent of crushed vegetables
The sweet tremble of your hand, your heart
I didn’t know it wouldn’t last

I’m feeling green and blue about you
The push and pull of love is true
But I watch you playing games with me
The push and pull of heart strings

I tried to make it work, but there isn’t anything left
I’ve peeled away our skins, and the only feeling left is hurt
If you hadn’t been so rough, if I hadn’t been so sharp
I just wanted to be enchanted, I forgot that that’s
just not enough.

I realized just last night, the clue was there
It was there right from the start
When you juggled those three zucchini flowers
You were really juggling with my heart

"Many Many" Challenge (A Creative Brief)

Anyone can live with many

Many ways to live with all,

but then there’s many, many

hungry, and many more are feeling cold

Many reasons stop us giving

Many more tell us to wait –

but when there’s many children crying –

there’s just one beating heart and hand at stake…

There are many, many ways to leave things too late.

Fallen Lucy - A Song

Lucy, was looking into the clouds

Matthew, was looking at Lucy

Lucy was falling into the ground

(Into the ground)

Matthew was diving at the clouds

Lucy fell into the ground

Matthew dived into the clouds

Their worlds circled round each other

the sky, wouldn’t meet the ground

(meet the ground)

Lucy looked at Matt and smiled

held up her hands and caught the sun

and said, this is for you

Matthew looked at Lucy and cried

you gave me the sun

when I fell through the clouds

but I would have been happy

just to have your smile

(to have your smile)

Lucy fell into the ground

Matthew dived into the clouds

Their worlds circled round each other

the sky couldn’t meet the ground

(meet the ground)

Lucy’s smile lit up her face

through Lucy’s lashes Matthew

saw himself reflected

and, echoed Lucy’s smile

(Lucy’s smile…)

but the sun flew out

from Matthews mouth

it was too much for him to bear

and the ground opened up beneath them

and swallowed Lucy whole

(Lucy whole)

Lucy fell into the ground

and Matthew dived into the clouds

Matthew, dived into the clouds

(Into the clouds)

Their worlds circled round each other

the sky wouldn’t meet the ground

sky wouldn’t meet the ground

meet the ground

meet the ground

meet the ground

meet the ground

sky wouldn’t meet the ground

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus; a majestic tree

Stark, powerful and magic

Weeping fronds, droop like keening women

towards the red earth

Claylike, the earth supports the tree

in its solidarity.

Haiku Attempt 2 - The Spring of Each Season

Creeping coldness eats at

Summers warm and tender rays of light

Speaks of autumn leaves

Orange burnished shadows

falling silently from trees

crackle on the ground

Twitter and shuffle

of small creatures on the leaves

create seasonal song

Heat fades with bitter rain

wind drifts, moves autumn along

the forest cries

Summer dies, autumn cries

Winter springs, into new life

flowers curl open.

Haiku Attempt - A Petite Cat (Gets even with the Goldfish)

A petite cat lifts

her soft paw - bats at goldfish

The fish shimmers, reflects

Water in the bowl

A strand of weed sways gently

To the filters tide

The pebbles spin, shoot

And spin from the goldfish mouth

The cat paws her prey

Visitations and light bulbs in the night

It’s official. I’m scared of ghosts. Can I be scared of something I don’t believe in? Well, after experiencing my lights turning on and off for no reason – even when the light switch is in the other room – and my fan suddenly turning itself on, depressions of air making sounds like footsteps in the hall and my friend in the spare room emitting high pitched giggles and mumbling at 2am … yes, I’m freaked out.

Of course the fan and the light wires might be crossed – which makes sense when I turn the light on and get the fan instead – but what about when the light turns on by itself, waking me up at 11pm and again at 3am last night. Freaky.

I’m up late at night now, exhausted and still sick, but a bit too squeamish to go to bed yet. I’d better go soon though – TV is fast turning in to a bunch of sex phone line ads, and some retarded exercise routine called “Zumba”. I’ve been watching it for so long that I’m almost considering it – even though the “previously fat people” all look like professional dancers and the guy who’s selling the dvd (for the low, low price of $145) looks like a real wanker. And their ear to ear smiles are almost as scary as my ghost.

I’ve been trying not to talk about it much, the ghost, except to laugh about it … because otherwise it’s just going to freak me out even more. But right now I just need someone to hug in bed with me and scare away the ghost for me.

I never should have watched Paranormal Activity. I thought it was a stupid movie and I didn’t find it scary at the time. It’s the ideas that the movie put in my head that started all this off; it doesn’t help that I live near a cemetery …

Right. I’m going to bed. And I’m not taking the Zumba dvd or any ghosts with me.