Tagged: poem
Idle, Get Your Fill
Poem about Longing You are always You are always dreaming Dreaming always, you are Getting off that train of thought Prime directives caress Roman is so easy to master Unlike you, feeling You,...
Tai Chi Practice
Haibun Poem “White Crane Spreads its Wings” Sunlight rippling off the Ramapo River Deep breath in. During commencement, I raise soft, rounded arms. They ascend, roll and descend. Deep breath out. As I...
You Were Born Of… – Part Two
Narrative Fiction Well, by the end of the next year, all that Robert Burns, my boyfriend, my rebel stuff had ended. It had all backfired on me. But I’ll get to that later. It...
The Game Of Freedom
Poem Things we want don’t stay the same because we are beings of change and solitude. It is hard to choose and fulfill the dream whilst excluding all the other paths we may...
Portrait – Part IV
Poem Up! She pushed. Up! She was still. A dead elephant. So still she felt the babe’s throbbing. They could do nothing. Her children, 5 and 6, fed and washed — she wept. Up!...
Untitled — Swearing Off
Breakup Poem I finally have to go Will I write you? Possibility will be on your side As soon as I make room with parting It’ll feel that uncomfortable sensation Of my warmth, still...
Last Laugh
Haibun Poem Sitting on a rock, cross-legged, I pretend to meditate. My eyes half-closed, hands on my knees fingers up, I keep repeating “ommm.” Even when he’s so far up the trail, I...
You Were Born Of…
Short Story I guess my being the only girl in the family, destined me to be a tomboy, sporting cutoff jeans with patches, slick backed braids and flat, knobby breasts. I believed back then...
