Blasted past ripped from the news paper tattered by the birds with hard beaks beating into a pulp fiction stories of lovers entwined rings of a stump torn apart pages pressed tightly together by wind and wet rain blurs words worm worn pathways eaten weather weakens crumbles remnants of the Blasted. ∞ Submitted…
Yesterday’s Lament
Yesterdays dreams in a drawer Paperbacks promised cascade dog eared devoured once a Word was enough Mother Nature’s Country boy reaching Across the universe across the daffodils distracted abandoned Ask me why? Bad boy? Because? Please, please, me Carry that weight slide it close Writer dried up pens inkwell waiting yellowed clippings recordings ramblings No…
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…
Writing Snowflakes
whatis it liketo writeSnowflakesout oflife? All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck …. more of my original Poetry on EatsWritesShoots here.
Quills
Dip a sharpened quill into the bluest ink of time and link it when then drink it now. Draw forth the weather’s breath through walls Nasrid built and exhale princes, all, are bid adieu measured now for red yellow red. Abdicate the past, passed caliphate and amir, proclaim an indigo crown to roost and rule…
Ribbons Ridden
Ribbons of asphalt Ridden and flung — Ribbons of flesh Ripped and wrung. © Dale Schierbeck 2014 Read more poetry here
What Man is Made by Woman
Oh what man is made by woman A spirit made of flesh A psyche breathed with life. Oh what body is made by touch Desire fired in a forge Hardened pure upon a kiss. Oh what heart is made by love A metronome made to move Sets life to swing with purpose. © Dale Schierbeck…
A Room of My Own ~ My Canadian Voice
Any discussion of a writer’s voice will surely evoke allusions to Virginia Woolf’s emancipating book, A Room of One’s Own. Writing with her own strong voice, she breaks barriers and all but seizes a voice that she proclaims her own … and in the process she creates an anthem for women writers the world over….
An Anniversary in Blogging
Today is the one year anniversary of EatsWritesShoots. Thank you all for making this the best year of my life. A year is a long time. Much can be done in a year. But it is a long time to be doing anything. When I began this blog a year ago, I had no real…