Tagged: poem

haibun poetry 1

Restless Day After

Haibun Poetry A Nickelodeon version of Cinderella plays in the family room. Bella, our neighbor’s golden retriever, barks at a passing dog and walker. The pine-scented aroma from our freshly mopped tile floor reaches...

poems about time 0

Portrait — Part III

Poem   It’s fate. There’s nothing to grasp — but worn air of a future lapsing. It’s how we mitigate, how we squelch to years, minutes and the hour. It was the drag of...

Flower Poem 0

Flowers In The Darkness

Flower Poem   The vengeful light, it breaks along the hill. Your eyes are wide, but all is silent still. You lie in creeping phlox and rose’s hand. The night has died and I...

poem about hope 0

Snare

Poem About Hope   She held onto the familiar strand of hope that this silver lining will pull the clouded curtain of somber and reveal shining gold and hues of bright blue, endless happiness...

Poems About Work 1

Data Analyst

Life Poem   No direction. An insect at a desk. Knowing better, but settling for much less. Scared to death of breaking the silence. If this is life then tell me, why is it so...

Poem About Purpose 1

What We Write About?

Poem We write about oceans and seas We write about everything in between We write about love lost and pet seen We write about everything we ever wanted to be We write about nature...

poetry about life 1

Something You Think About in the Sunshine

Poetry About Life   This, the summer of blackened souls And upturned collars, This will be the first summer of my lasts. Arriving at this precipice, I must hesitate And catch myself between the...

Poetry About Feelings 0

Feelings

Poem   You cannot know how does a rock feel still echoing in the distance, you cannot know how does the wood feel reduced to ashes, you cannot know how does a dog feel...

Haibun Poetry 0

A Cathartic Question?

Haibun Poetry   Her eyes hold a distant look as she lifts her head from her book. A question Shirley asked her earlier still haunts her: How do I feel about Robert? After she...

Poem About Heartbreak 0

5.15.15

Poem About Heartbreak   Is it easier to lie with words or with silence to sleep in a bed over and over whilst our minds race elsewhere with other people other places as ideas...

Poem About Nightmares 0

2 a.m.

Poem About Nightmares   Sleep has wrapped its thick bands around me and lazily pulls me down into bed. The alarm clock sits, poised on the edge of the nightstand relishing every minute that...

Free-Form Poetry 2

Behind the Glass

Free-Form Poetry   Moving in a slow-motion daydream Trying to touch the ocean Behind my opened eyes Taking time to sense The depth of each wave Making my way through The blue water sky...