Borrow the wind and toss its worries furrow under marshmallow clouds tomorrow daylight moves a mountain stow thoughts under nighttime’s shrouds Ride the wind through the cattails wayside thimbles lost to the blue guide the daydreamer we once knew night’s rich tide enveloping you I wrote this poem for the Wea’ve Written Weekly prompt fromContinue reading “Cattail Dreams”
Category Archives: Poetry
Cyclical
Listening today under nature’s tapestry I sit quietly to catch autumn’s last whisper voiced in papery red leaves The path underfoot holds their laminous stories left behind until spring when we pull back the pages worn thin by winter’s thick glaze Deer tread the meadows summer’s birdsong now silenced Wild geese preen feathers and prepareContinue reading “Cyclical”
Treble Clef
crisp orange leaf floats like a melody its music reverberating through the silent woods I wrote this septolet for this week’s Wea’ve Written Weekly at the Skeptic’s Kaddish. Here’s the prompt for the week: The Septolet is a poem consisting of exactly seven lines containing exactly fourteen words with a break anywhere in between the two verses. Both verses deal with the same thoughtContinue reading “Treble Clef”
The lens through which we see the world
the camera reflects the lens through which we see life captured light glistens bright and speckles the soul with sunbeams fractured lens the camera pretends tells only half the story squeezes hope bitter note looking for glory heartened now we are learning how to share love camera’s hope the story behind the lens empathy warmContinue reading “The lens through which we see the world”
Crisp Earth
I cross the field’s crunching cornstalks, brittle limbs whispering in a gentle breeze. The shadows slant across tree branches, narrowing daylight into frangible bits. The packed dirt is crisp underfoot, damp with autumn rains and hardening overnight to cement today’s footsteps in frost-crusted morning light, memorialized in nature’s ephemeral season. This poem is in responseContinue reading “Crisp Earth”
In Memoriam: Cedar’s Song
how can we but admire your pure joy? the gleeful abandon of diving into snowbanks only to burrow up and sneeze, powder white hat atop your head, fervor unmatched for the next winter storm. your eternal curiosity kept you adventuring, turning your head to see our slow feet always just steps behind as you boundContinue reading “In Memoriam: Cedar’s Song”
Autumn Hue
At the hilltop, I breathed in rich fall evergreens, felt short curls tickle my face and my arms stretch to encompass the peace of this place. “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite,” gliding over the clouds, melting into azure skies with wind billowing beneath us, buoying our souls as we rose aboveContinue reading “Autumn Hue”
Journeying
for the love of adventure, I’ll cross these prairie lands of waving grass and sun-speckled hollows, the pastures hidden beyond winding county roads and no-named hillsides, sleeping under yesterday’s roof and weaving tomorrow from scratch Oh my goodness, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve written a poem on WordPress! I’ve missed that. This semesterContinue reading “Journeying”
Golden Heart
There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in, There is a sun that will be seen, Somber rays will glisten again, A golden heart make break apart And leave you in its wake, But the river’s wise, will calm your eyes, And cradle you, for hope’s sake This week’sContinue reading “Golden Heart”
Maui Fires
the orange blaze stole our tears and bled our hearts leap into the Pacific as the banyan tree groans on Front Street the moans of hurricane winds history in flames Kanaloa, hear our call the world cries for Lahaina On Tuesday evening, I sent my husband, who was away at work, a message: I’d justContinue reading “Maui Fires”
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