Garden art, or: Lost in high weeds

Poetry Partners #159

‘Metal Pets’, a photograph (above) and ekphrastic series of kimo poems by Marsha Ingrao of ‘Always Write’

Eyes pleading to adopt soldered bodies
No rhyme to their color scheme
No purpose or service

Standing close, begging - take all three of us
a bird, cat, and centipede
Natural enemies

Stand together in solidarity
Decorations, toys for kids
You won't be sorry. Please?

"Tweaked nose, scuffed paint, one twisted antenna,"
says one prospective buyer
"A bug with what uses?"

"A cat that's a planter or wheelbarrow?"
"Will his legs collapse with weight?"
"He's so scratched and dented."

"The bird can't stand straight and its wing is bent."
"Is it a watering can?"
"He might scare birds and pests."

"I think I'll take the gnarly bunch of them.
There's potential for my yard.
My wife will find a place."

• Always Write: https://alwayswrite.blog/

A limerick by ben Alexander of ‘The Skeptic’s Kaddish’

"Vince is such an impetuous guy,"
thought Marsha with heavy inner sigh,
"but if bird, cat, centipede
get 'lost' in distant weeds,
no one need see his daft, impulse buy!"

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Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

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