PROMPT: Nostalgic

What makes you feel nostalgic?

In order of frequency: 1.) music; 2.) some random memory; 3.) a pattern of colors.

PROMPT: Sports Team

If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?

Black & White; the skunk (but one with character, though more bellicose and less French than Pepé Le Pew. Like Yosemite Sam possessing a skunk.)

Poppy Trigger [Lyric Poem]

Two hikers on a mountain trail
pass a solitary Poppy.
One remembers a lost loved one;
one, feeling high and floppy.

Fall Tenacity [Haiku]

dry and yellow,
 fall leaves hang on like a thick
  head of gray hair.

Green Fairy [Free Verse]

Bohemians
   gathered around 
   the absinthe bottles,
  the light hitting 
   the bottles shone
   a radioactive shade
   of green.

That green light
   threw blotches
  against walls &
 floors & people &
  anything else there
  was to illuminate.

The more they drank,
 the less green the mottling --
  not because the empty glass 
   was clear, &
 didn't refract, or spray green,
   but because the splotches
  turned every color --
   every color there is --
  and the colors danced
   around the increasingly 
  amorphous surfaces.

 Until, at last,
  everyone was asleep,
 and visions of Green Fairies
  danced in their dreams. 

Autumn Rust [Haiku]

the year shows its age,
 a coating of rust flushes
  the hilltops.

DAILY PHOTO: Autumn in North Carolina

First to Fall [Haiku]

by the green river,
one tree prematurely
takes Fall colors.

DAILY PHOTO: Jack-O-Lanterns by Day & by Night

DAILY PHOTO: Neon Nights, Kolkata