Nature leaves fingerprints ∞ Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo). Today’s prompt: try your hand at a minimalist poem. What’s that? Well, a poem that is quite short, and that doesn’t really try to tell a story, but to quickly and simply capture an image or emotion…. 30 Poems in 30…
Poets
I am purple — royal — wrapped a monarch with a sceptre — scented gold be the purpose — powdered ink that divines — my kingdom I am a ray of white — sunlight blinded — impenetrable — bright a dissected rainbow — in my sight reflected on the unscribed — wax I am an…
Swallow-Tails
Like a ribbon of verdant grass curled around my finger I remember my youth of running barefoot through the grass and clover chasing the flight of butterflies over Okanagan air like the wind whispering love to the tail of a dancing kite pale sulfur sails panel the blue as long crooked legs come alight upon…
i see
i see — with the light with each season and my mood, i see differently — my eyes change with the afternoon with the wane of the sun the see a shimmer of skin in the shadows of a a candle my eyes alight inside the twisting fire but in a lens they blink and…
What did the Grouse Hear?
What did the grouse hear as the Father talked to his Son — what did it hear in the reassuring speech, practiced over a glass of rye, in the repetition of “I will always love you”? Walking among the thin ground cover, random and haphazard, the mottled markings passed on from grouse to grouse as…
Oh Pinot
Oh, you, breaker of hearts, you awaken my palate with burgundy kiss fill my glass with celebration but just as often rot … just within reach sweet fruit for yellow jackets who suckle upon your tightly packed vines. Oh, you, breaker of hearts I salivate waiting for your mineral kiss soft soft soft upon my…
Red Sky Tonight …
My lips are painted with the red sky tonight … she has kissed me hard pressed against the weather pane — I’m twisting in her words, full-sail, piercing air, a dappled blanket sheathes a sorceress’ spell spoken Burn me, melt me, make me whole, cleanse from me a darkened soul, calm my waters in a…
you remember when
I awoke … Asleep with a weight upon my upper lip and a hush upon my ear. My unconscious mind was struggling with a conscious world of pain the torments and disappointments of my memories tearing at my being. A mother who wept when I was born a father away much of the time and…
Insomnia
What is this? this thrashing and turning this hunger for an end this thirst for peace and nothingness? What is this staring? this spot upon my lidded shades this search for darkness this looking into night for a piece of blackness in shadow? What is this quiet? this rhythmic breath this autonomic pull I count…
Unmade
Cast your eyes into tomorrow’s sky Steal perfection from the light Make the room dark for the night Squeeze the jasmine around the twisted air Tear the feathers out the angel’s wings Stuff a pillow with heaven there Fire the wick upon reflecting eyes Project our figures onto an unwritten wall Melt my hardness until…
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