Polkadot Princess Ladybug hides
her wings beneath
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Tag Archives: Poetry
Happy Mother’s Day
Our oldest love, our first love,
unfolding from our own birth,
grows as we take our first steps,
flows in our veins,
lodges in our fiber.
The love that makes us children again. Continue reading
Happy Mothering Day
Even Mother’s Day
is a mothering day.
A day of hair braiding,
breakfast sharing, Continue reading
Fragrance Fandango
cherry-petal pink
lilacs tease green hearts,
kissing and telling Continue reading
Gratitude for Messy
Gratitude for messy moments,
with their lively, unstudied drama.
Gratitude for the fragrant earth with
its briars, weeds and teeming life. Continue reading
Self-Portrait as Wildflower
Late snow or early heat,
a green shoot persists.
Rising from fragrant soil,
toe-deep in reverie,
surviving drought,
negligence and starving deer. Continue reading
Do It Like Bees
Technology
and industry
create murky
byproducts.
Dragonpuffs of Continue reading
Riverwalk
early leaves furled —
brightest riverwalk blooms
dot sculling shells Continue reading
Lakeside
Lakeside, I am honey-drizzled,
in an inky trance, like tea
left too long in the sun. My arm
is a mossy log, lined with turtles. Continue reading
Tulips in Thyme
Tulips,
risque-ripe
purplicious
spring’s archetype
scent-delicious Continue reading
Moon Touched
A poet,
dismissed from Heaven,
trees truth Continue reading
2017 Progressive Poem
I’m here to tell you that building a poem with 29 other poets has shivered my timbers and set my castle alight. Read down, and you will see my line, bold and italicized, emerge like a flying monkey from the otherwise well-mannered unfolding. I think it may be carrying a torch. Or is that my hair on fire? (Terror, you cannot defeat me.)
The Secret Inside the Book
I’m fidget, friction, ragged edges—
I sprout stories that frazzle-dazzle, Continue reading
Friendly Fairy Tales 