Meeting the Bar — For my dog, Bonbon

Jupiter and moons from telescope, via astronomyonline.org

Jupiter
Is our meeting place
Since you died my light went out
Out I go each night and I see you
Prancing there

Written for Meeting The Bar—The Cinquain .. .Expanded, at dVerse Poets Pub, hosted this week by Tony Maude. Tony has revitalized the traditional five-line Cinquain poetry form (follow link to refresh your memory) by working "with the cinquain, breaking it by adding an extra syllable to each line, giving a five-line poem with lines of 3, 5, 7, 9 and 3 syllables in that order." Very cool, Tony!

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Friday Flash 55 — MH370

Image: Albuquerque by Bryan Collins

She will not look down -

    will never give up - will

trace invisible contrails

making circles in the skies

over many lands, teasing

blue waters that wave

back, then swell and fold

over stories forever untold -

    while she grows old

looking up (never drown)

as dark arcs deepen

under her arid eyes,

    and time flies.

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My post in exactly 55 words written for Friday Flash 5. Next week will be the final week that G-Man will be our Host here. Thanks so much for your many encouraging words, Galen. I will miss you!

  

.G-Man, who has been our host