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”
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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”
Fishy Adventures
The horse trampled his water dish leaving beads of shimmering gems where shimmied the rainbow fish slithering through tall iris stems, making his way uphill: his wish to see his favored ocean chums he caught a ride on a floating dlish covered with sweet apple pie crumbs it flung him with a great swish acrossContinue reading “Fishy Adventures”
Cumulus humilus
fog drifts over distant ridges like the earth’s smooth exhalations turning foamy cirrus into stubborn nimbus the tug of rain eases life’s pain I’ve mentioned previously on WordPress how much the sky interests me, from watching storms roll in to gazing at the star-filled night– and I’ve shared more cloud-centric poetry. The fact that peopleContinue reading “Cumulus humilus”
Healing Wounds
sneaker squeaks linoleum floors distant beeps machine hums fear curtailed under bright lights wrapped in curtained walls bandages slowly counting steps counting days nature’s rest scar tissue’s perseverance heaven’s endurance existence fickle yet bolder striding near holding dear what wounds look like as they heal faith, friendship, love, hope This week’s Wea’ve Written Weekly promptContinue reading “Healing Wounds”
in the before and the after
time, for myself, is now bifurcated, cleaved around its natural disaster channeled endlessly, sometimes I hate it tunneled through disease: before and after I comb through the past but can’t reconcile before the hourglass flipped on its side, pooling in hollow in-between miles, pouring sand through fingers splayed, I reside on the other side, aContinue reading “in the before and the after”
Turtle’s Reverie
stopping for a breath the world set atop our back bowing like branches bathed in filtered mellow light sifting silent rivulet This week’s Wea’ve Written Weekly prompt from the Skeptic’s Kaddish comes from Lesley, who asks us to do the following: This weekend, we spent some time at my grandmother’s cabin, which is a coupleContinue reading “Turtle’s Reverie”
Words and Coffee Writing 