Crossword Poems on Fall

(Thought-Random)
                                 
            
  by  -Ella Anika Chan Parker

                                                           
 I.                                 L -eaves can be many different colors.

                                    E -very color of the rainbow.

                                    A -lways very pretty to look at.

                                    V -ariety of sizes and shapes.

                                    E -ach leaf makes me happy.

                                    S -pecial is Fall to me.     

                     


    II.                              F -all is so nice

                                     A -s nice as rice

                                     L -augh out aloud

                                     L -augh or you're a cloud!

                                                                                 

                                                                                                   -Ella Anika Chan Parker
                                                                               

February 11 - In Between the Lines

Thought-Random:

        When I read you and  find your words turn
        just a trifle too abstract for me,
        I try to catch you instead in the cadence of
        rhyme and rhythm, of assonance and yes,
        of alliteration and, too, in the world of  tone,
        of imagery, persona,  metaphor.

       But next am I blessed with a touch of daybreak
       when in those images and allusions at hand
       can I behold an epiphany of aspects and realities
       in a dimension of my own parallel to yours,
       just like a missing segment from a wall of bricks,
       I create through that peep hole it leaves -
 
       A whole new visual field, a spectacle all mine
       Thus did I make my own poetry, thank you!