Lisa Lopresti

I am an English West Country poet, in the ship shape and Bristol Fashion city, who when not working is taking iPhone photos on walks with my Patterjack terrier, Rosie. Often times caught making home made elderflower champagne or scribbling poetry to languish in kitchen draws. Until that is I joined Tumblr. I am very pleased to meet you all. How do you do.

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Poem and picture - Lisa Lopresti(shipshapewithsliders)

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'The Skating Party'. Elisabeth Sommerville.

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Dilemma 

High on this globe of earth,

The rain,

God’s tattoo on your face,

Talisman reflected surface.

Maybe finding courage is easy,

Keeping it is the difficulty. 

Photo & Poem © Lisa Lopresti (shipshapewithsliders)

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‘If you are offered a rose garden relationship,

remember the feline thorns.’ 

(Quote © Lisa Lopresti)

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Jay

Parrot of the park,

Flash of blue against the bark –

Peach charisma.

- Haiku & photo by Lisa Lopresti(shipshapewithsliders)

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Poem and picture - Lisa Lopresti(shipshapewithsliders)

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This Thursday evening, 1st May, at Waterstones, The Galleries, the book launch of in Bristol UK ‘Land of the Free' by Allana Raine King and Lorraine Martin. A wonderful novel with proceeds to charity, Allana was a regular Satellite of Love open mic poet and writer. https://www.waterstones.com/events/land-of-the-free-book-launch/bristol-galleries Come along to this warm and lovely event, would love to see you there - Lisa

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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)

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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)

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Undeclared Affection

Love so close,

The thing that hurts the most -

Is almost.

Haiku & photo by Lisa Lopresti (shipshapewithsliders)



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Poem published in Acumen 103

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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.

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I dream of horses as I awake,

from fitful sleep that races to dawn.

Sometimes they are bronco’s in the waves

crashing consciousness to sand

but mostly they fly, before elegantly

dropping as if the world were glass.

Poem by Lisa Lopresti( photo an ancient sculpture)

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Moth wing skies, as twilight darkens, to even shade the moon.

The Pines needle the embroidered clouds, into dramatic patterns.

We walk from the party, Irish reels with heels of thunder and fiddles lightness.

Poem by Lisa Lopresti and photo(Ashton Court)

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“Everyone deserves a second chance, but not a 3rd, that’s just ammunition to hurt you automatically “

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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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