So very many things In this fractured world connive To come between us, love. It’s hard to keep the white noise Of busyness and distraction From thickening around us. But tonight I watched your trousers Tumbling with my t-shirts. Now embracing, Now parting, Now meeting again. And can there be less hope For us than [...]
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Of Love and Laundry
Posted in 3 Word Wednesday, poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on August 26, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Inauguration Day
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts, tagged inauguration, loss, poem, Totally Optional Prompts on January 20, 2009 | 12 Comments »
When he stood before us all And took the oath as many have before, Did some small part of his mind Retreat to thoughts of his beloved And absent grandmother, Who did not live to see this day? Just as at my wedding, When in the midst of joy A momentary shadow fell – My [...]
On Belonging
Posted in NaPoWriMo, poetry, Totally Optional Prompts, tagged NaPoWriMo on April 3, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Waving palm fronds may Shade her brow today but No matter where she goes Her toes are sunk deep In the red clay of Georgia. Once you’ve lived there It is in you always.
Why
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on January 31, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I am but a tiny speck, a mote A dot a clump of the universe, Grown eyes to see itself. My boundary is not my body is More than my body is mine Are the leaves on the trees The wind the sky the birds Are my body are mine. All love is mine, all [...]
Nocturne
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on January 10, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Sun sinks, Shuts the day With an audible sigh. The birds know the truth of it, Folding themselves into leaved bowers, Settling in for a frigid night Of cricket melodies and the Occasional mammalian footfall, Felt more than heard, Down, deep beneath their Lonely avian dreams. -~-~-~-~ For Totally Optional Prompts
On the Road
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on December 5, 2007 | 18 Comments »
There was no sign that said This way to leave your youth behind, No map that pointed out the stops along the way, Here be rental agreements and bills to pay And broke-down cars and sore muscles, 47 miles from office job to expanding gut. And since there was no limit posted We sped up [...]
Fauna
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on November 28, 2007 | 14 Comments »
-~-~-~-~ O tiger, tiger, spirit dim, In the Feline Habitat, Do you dream behind your bars Of the wide savannahs where Your forebears once burned bright? Pray tell, why is an elephant, What purpose has a panda? Surely not as ornament For idle human fancy, To be a pretty backdrop for Our more essential [...]
On Waking
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on November 8, 2007 | 18 Comments »
Dream shadow, You color my morning blue. I wake but linger clouded As your ghosts whisper in my ear. Fevered, I will them gone, So day eyes must dance no night vision As the young light seeps in the open window.
She’d Made Her Choice
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on November 1, 2007 | 10 Comments »
It followed her home, shadowing her steps, lurking in dark corners, and forced its way through the door behind her – she never had a chance. Was it truly any wonder that she often envied the fast food workers, department store clerks, sullen grocery baggers? She truly loved her job, of course she did, though [...]
Worst Player in the Orchestra
Posted in poetry, Totally Optional Prompts on October 18, 2007 | 13 Comments »
The young violinist struggles to keep up with the conductor’s baton. Safely in the back she knows she’s the least of them but she treasures her spot right in front of the drums, a better place than first chair for a girl who longs to sink into the cadence of the symphonies they play. She [...]
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