damselfly
some are too tender
for this world
_________________
write from the spot
moving around inside you
it returns in dreams
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a sister song
i wear unbuttoned
close to my skin
an animal
whose howl
undresses me
__________________
he can't
be left alone
a child
tagging along
in the shadows
still frightened
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the end
whatever was lost
or missing
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rainy day
sky all over
the road
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heat lightning
i still think of her
on summer nights
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getting older
less concerned
about what's been lost
more and more
what's happening now
before it's lost
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love
everything that is
or will be
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a wild animal
has no secrets
nothing to forgive
or forget
doesn’t lie awake
thinking about death
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willow tree
the nights
you held me
the river
we crossed
in our sleep
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dusk
the birds have quieted
trees are dark silhouettes
my shadow
takes ease in the blank
screen of the sky
_____________________
crows
gather
on the curbside
strut
into the busy street
black and shiny
______________________
ikebana
arrange flowers
so simple
a poem
what's unsaid
is the beauty
_______________________
nightly
a tiger leaps through the window
lies beside me on the bed
a low growl
lulls me to sleep, giant paws
and claws wrapped around me
_______________________
our reasons
always had us
doubling back
to start again
only this time
you kept on going
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meals were important
everyone left their rooms
and their pacing
to eat
in selfless conversation
amid the occasional scream
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A knee
is all I ask.
Two would be better
but a knee will do.
A floor.
It doesn't have to be marble.
Dirt will do.
A few rocks
to grind a knee on
but that might be
too much
to ask
______________________
autumn
deep reverberations
of a falling leaf
nothing lost
or gained
take us as we are
a bunch of short poems
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Re: a bunch of short poems
Three of these worked well for me. My favorite "Ikebana"....I also liked the opening "damselfly" poem and the mysterious "a sister song"...great last 2 lines in it.
ikebana
arrange flowers
so simple
a poem
what's unsaid
is the beauty
ikebana
arrange flowers
so simple
a poem
what's unsaid
is the beauty
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Re: a bunch of short poems
Hi Billy,
I enjoyed these a bunch Michael (MV)
"rainy day
sky all over
the road"
rainy day
sky splashed over
the road
or
rainy day
sky splashed
over the road
"a poem
what's unsaid
is the beauty"
^^ I heard my brother's voice:
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter;" -- John Keats
I enjoyed these a bunch Michael (MV)
"rainy day
sky all over
the road"
rainy day
sky splashed over
the road
or
rainy day
sky splashed
over the road
"a poem
what's unsaid
is the beauty"
^^ I heard my brother's voice:
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter;" -- John Keats