Desire

Desire Burns Within, photo by smkybear from flickr

Desire

Hunger and thirst

Until what is inside

Comes out in a burst

A yearning tide

Until outpourings

Release and reside

© January 29, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

“I charge you: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.” –Song of Songs 8:4


This poem, Desire, was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

On the Flipside

Flipside Burger Bar, photo by drew robinson, from Flickr

On the Flipside

If this end is up

And the other is down

. . .If upside-down . . .

Someone is making

A turnaround

© January 21, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

This poem, On the Flipside, was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, October 1, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Tenuous

Insecure, photo by Sagise from Flickr

Tenuous

Tread lightly

Upon my heart

Burden slightly

Insecurity

Comes nightly

© January 17, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

Pour

Pouring Liquid Gold, photo by The Puzzler

Pour

Soaked in

Love

Filled within

Then poured

Out again

© January 4, 2012, Robbie Pruitt

“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.” –Titus 3:4-7

This poem, Pour, was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Starting Out

Start, photo by JakeandLindsay Sherbert, 
from Flickr, jakeandlindsay

Starting Out

Just begin

Start out

From where

You are

And go

To where

You will end

Just begin

© March 14, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

This poem was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Coffee Bean

Coffee Beans, Photo by Nate Steiner, from Flickr

Coffee Bean

From bean to brew

The roast, the grind,

The water—

It filters through

From cherries on trees

To peaceful aroma and steam

The nectar that puts us at ease

© June 25, 2013, RobbiePruitt

This poem was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Hierophany

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“The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” –John 1:5

Hierophany

Facing into a new night

Darkness

Did not comprehend

The Light

Facing into a new Light

Facing into a new Light

Light

Did not comprehend

The Darkness

Facing into a new night

© March 1, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

This poem was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. To see more poems submitted, please visit the site. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Wisteria

Wisteria photo from Flickr, by Rick Kimpel, 
rkimpeljr, © March 28, 2007

Wisteria

Purple

Wraps around

And intertwines

In gripping love

Adorning

Vine and tree

With Purple

Majesty  

© February 21, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

Wisterias, photo from Flickr by formatc1, © May 10, 2008

TweetSpeak’s poetry prompt and musical playlist this February is Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-good Poetry Prompt).  This week TweetSpeak Poetry offers Let’s Go Crazy–A Potpourri Purple Poetry Prompt Of Tyrannosaurical Proportions by Seth Haines here.

This poem will also be submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday. To see more poems submitted, please visit the site. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Purple Passion

Love Aura, photo from Flickr by Jsome1

Purple Passion

Grapes are fruits

Of royalty

And we feed on

Grapes in ecstasy

One at a time

Purple as satin

Sheets and silk

Purple Roses

Indicate love

At first sight

Purple hue

Transcends

The bluest night

A purple moon

Returns nightly

In varying shape, shade

And degrees of light

Illuminating slightly

© February 11, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

TweetSpeak’s poetry prompt and musical playlist this February is Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-good Poetry Prompt).  This week TweetSpeak Poetry offers The Symbolic Duke And A Purple Play (A Poetry Prompt) by Seth Haines here.

This poem will also be submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday. To see more poems submitted, please visit the site. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Color Purple

Purple Roses in a Bowl, photo from Flickr by Mason2008

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." –Alice Walker

Color Purple

Alice Walker

Never met a purple shade

That she did not admire

Which did not persuade

Her regard for it would not tire

She stood with God

In fields of purple flower

With beauty that would not cower

Amidst splashes of the finest color

In the countryside assured

© February 11, 2013, Robbie Pruitt

TweetSpeak’s poetry prompt and musical playlist this February is Purple Rain and Indigo Blues (A Plum-good Poetry Prompt).  This week TweetSpeak Poetry offers Purple Plays (An Associative Poetry Prompt) by Seth Haines here.

This poem will also be submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets. To see more poems submitted, please visit the site. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’spoems.