Lacustrine Heart

Unravel the day

in solferino rivers

that flow to

Eden’s cor.

Unzip my skin,

unwrap lacustrine heart

beside the Horseshoe,

my world’s waters,

and let me simply drink

of Adam’s ale.

Inspired by the morning sky. Not adequately captured by The Droid.

. . . → Read More: Lacustrine Heart

To My Mother: A Villanelle

I held you captive in my sight
while evil fingers burrowed deep, and
I heard you crying in the night.

While you focused on the light
and pumpkin-apple deer stood watch
I held you captive in my sight.

You pulled strings, made magic sleight
with finger-writing in the air, . . . → Read More: To My Mother: A Villanelle

Photoplay From My Back: Comfortable

 

I hover over her

squint at tilted back and crooked neck.

Are you comfortable?

She looks up at me.

Are you?

No.

I tug and pull and fluff.

How is that–

are you comfortable now?

She looks up at me.

Are you?

. . . → Read More: Photoplay From My Back: Comfortable

Yellow Leaves

Nothing left but yellow leaves

they fall in earnest now

like tears

and tumble in the wind.

Stripped limps stretch

and reach through gray

to touch the sun and wait.

Hearts ache and break

for moments lost to hardened hearts

and . . . → Read More: Yellow Leaves

Cashmere Comforter

Gray billows of cashmere

spun by sacred hands

whipped cream

piled soft

heaven’s comforter.

A simple response to a T.S. Poetry Press call for cashmere poems.

Photo taken from . . . → Read More: Cashmere Comforter

Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Sunrise by Megan Willome

SUNRISE

by Megan Willome

It’s disgraceful

All this color

Splattered

Pink flung

Purple creeping

Then orange

Why orange?

The clouds grey as the sun puts on bright clothes

Who wastes color like this?

Flinging beauty willy-nilly

As if everyone would see this sunrise

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Don’t waste His color!

I got an . . . → Read More: Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Sunrise by Megan Willome

It Will Not End Up Here

 

How did I end up here

wrapped in a circle of poets

(I don’t even call myself a poet)

where we showed up

to taste peaches and wild grapes,

to crush the flesh of nectarine

and sing fig songs?

How did I end up here

. . . → Read More: It Will Not End Up Here

Poetry as Rust

There is change in the breaking

when flakes of feeling surface,

exposed, blister and bleed on paper,

transformed into a poetic patina of words

stripped from the heart.

Responding to the challenge Photography and Poetry as Rust through The High Calling and T.S. Poetry Press.

If you . . . → Read More: Poetry as Rust

Saturday Snaps: The Praying Mantis

Glimpse the grin, green metal mug
at masks the pseudo-saintly bug . . .

And faintly whisper, Lord deliver us.

From The Praying Mantis by Ogden Nash
with photos by The Droid

Lifting a prayer for you today,

So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. . . . → Read More: Saturday Snaps: The Praying Mantis

Do You See It?

Do you see it?

How He tosses His palette on the morning?

How he swipes His rainbow hand across new canvas?

How He outlines fine and brushes bold?

How He mists fresh and rains grace on parched hearts?

How He hides surprises within each painting?

How . . . → Read More: Do You See It?