Even Prompter

Home 3

Home 3

We built our house on the edge,
a layer cake of logs like books on a shelf
stacked under a steaming cup for a chimney.

On the far side of the mesa a rose tree grew,
tall and holding its blossoms to the sun
that hovered above in perpetual noon.

In the distance we could see Mount Ease,
so called for its resemblance to a chair
with a band of blue tuff for a pillow.

Square clouds floated in the unchanging sky,
holding images of a dreamscape,
the fruits of our labours on the carpet below.


Line count: 12
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 18 2022
Prompt: As per illustration.