Something more, well, hopeful after yesterday’s mopefest… My way in My way out The breath The sigh The ongoing conversation Memories of a Saturday morning embrace A candle in the window for your return A sign of welcome A sign of love A light in the darkness (7 May 2016)
Tag: light
Pleasantville (a poem)
Continuing my verbless journey through May… Fire in the trees color, light, heat, ash Symbolism with intent a cocktail of confusion A sea change worlds in flux jazz afternoons blues in the night Fear of knowledge fear of youth Resistance—Pushback—Struggle—Conflict One way or another the inevitable resolution Lessons from the imagination (3 M3ay 2016)
Trixie comes down from Refrigerator Mountain (A poem)
A bonus poem about one of my cats, Trixie, since I did not come up with a poem for Day 12 of National Poetry Writing Month… She surveys her domain from on high It’s not an unbroken vista, but it’s enough the time she spends there is not wasted Eventually, though, she gets bored with [...]
The smoke and the fire (A poem)
Technically, I wrote my Day 8 entry for National Poetry Writing Month yesterday, so here is a poem I wrote today. The smoke will rise in good time leaving ash and fragments of bone the proverbial trail of tears a regret or two and a reminder that everything ends The light will give it shape [...]
Whistles and buzzes (A poem)
A noisy breather sat next to me at last night’s open mic… It could be radio waves or a sucking sound I keep poking holes in hopes of learning more What will come out is anyone’s guess Steam might help this headache ease the pressure some I hear it knocking in the pipes travelling from [...]
The new day (a poem)
Sometimes I wonder why new days start in the middle of the night… Welcome to the new day here in the middle of the night What begins in darkness shall end in darkness That’s where we’ve drawn the lines— can’t turn back from it now There is a cost for lighting the flame but the [...]
An untitled poem about the intangible quality of love (A poem)
I feel I captured a strong feeling with this poem—at least, a strong feeling that I had as I wrote it. In that sense, writing this particular poem was an act of hope… So often the heart in love is portrayed as blood red that’s where passion lies, they say My heart beats on the [...]
Stars and ladybugs (a poem)
Written about a photograph of a woman participating in (I think) the Fremont Summer Solstice parade… She wears a masque that does little to hide her light a constellation of dreams radiating through her skin She walks among us always in a state of grace not one strand out of place down towards the water [...]
Cortege (a poem)
Today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano is to write in a different way than usual, whether that be in a different form or style, using different imagery or words, etc. The poem I wrote just before this one probably achieves that goal more successfully—but I like this one better. It was inspired [...]
NaPoWriMo 2015, Day 30: Who will I wake up to be? (reversed) (a poem)
The napowrimo.net prompt for the last day of National Poetry Writing Month 2015 is to either write a poem in reverse, or take a previously written poem and reverse the order of the lines. I will want to come up with a better title for this one, but I worked with the weird dream poem [...]
