
When you’re blue,
look above:
the moon smiles,
bright with love.
Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham Continue reading

When you’re blue,
look above:
the moon smiles,
bright with love.
Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham Continue reading

Ruffled red petals,
taut with youth,
reveal, then conceal Continue reading

Tulips,
risque-ripe
purplicious
spring’s archetype
scent-delicious Continue reading
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.)

I’m fidget, friction, ragged edges—
I sprout stories that frazzle-dazzle, Continue reading

Trees in bud burst
open, unrehearsed,
wild mint-lemon taste. Continue reading

Snow fish,
flow fish,
flying toward spring. Continue reading

Brother new, sister blue, I miss you.
Both lost at age four. Pain is evermore. Continue reading

Softest bell,
highest tone,
listen well,
Winter Crone, Continue reading

Roses are red,
snowflakes are white.
The first snowflake,
like a crystal kite,
dances and drifts
in silver sunlight. Continue reading

Heliotrope was in a sour mope.
She was the last crayon picked.
She felt as if she’d been kicked. Continue reading
Sandy treasures are
tossed by storms
like living toys. Continue reading

Goodbye, summer.
Goodbye, beach. Continue reading