Keep to the Bright Side of Life

When things are bad,

Don’t give up the fight –

Even dusk darkened paths,

Attracts scattered light.

- Poem and photo by Lisa Lopresti (shipshapewithsliders)

Disguised

Vanilla wind,

From ice cream clouds,

Sweet scent of decay.

Even in the stripped,

Embrace of branches,

It is not okay. 

You are silent,

In winters blue,

This tells me everything.

And I fully believe you.

- Poem & Photo by Lisa Lopresti (shipeshapewithsliders)

Undeclared Affection

Love so close,

The thing that hurts the most -

Is almost.

Haiku & photo by Lisa Lopresti (shipshapewithsliders)



Poem published in Acumen 103

In the sun and fun of Jamaica, blue skies a portent of heaven, Omari lives in the shade of tropical fronds and the tinkle of laughter.

Micro Poem by Lisa Lopresti & photo of himself , Omari Wright.

-Lisa Lopresti (shipshapewithsliders)

Be the One to Turn a Light On

Don’t make decisions in the dark,

Clarity and Light,

The heartbeat,

After the night.

Time linear,

Dapples the stark,

In fractured resolve.

Photo & Poem © Lisa Lopresti (shipshapewithsliders)

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Ghost of summer past

Crinkles merrily in the darkles of a long January

Winter’s night

Photo and micro poem - Lisa Lopresti

The weight of rain drops make us look down at reflections, the images seem strange, but they are exactly right. They will evaporate with the sun and so will the melancholy, there are no shadows when the sun is overhead.

Photo and prose - Lisa Lopresti (shipshapewithsliders)

by d-yohoui

Even if the truth hurts

— John A. Shedd