Recent Poems: Autumn of the Soul
Autumn of the Soul
- January 2023 (2)
- November 2022 (12)
- October 2022 (2)
- September 2022 (6)
- August 2022 (9)
- June 2022 (8)
- May 2022 (12)
- April 2022 (8)
- March 2022 (5)
- February 2022 (8)
- January 2022 (5)
- September 2014 (1)
- August 2014 (7)
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Dimmed Lights
Twiglets thoughts I must go,it calls me sointo the fog on silent feetfeeling the roughbark on the treeshearing soft scurryingof shy things.The fog is heavy,yet touches,my skin lightlyand I love this dimness,this mysterioussolemness,reverentialunspoken wordsof deityas I remain stillin this sacred … Continue reading
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Cry Baby
Twiglets The Weight of Water Tears begin to fill my eyes,pool, then drop one at a time,no matter how hard I’ve triedto stop them. The weight ofwater is so slight but thereis a torrent of hurt insidethat causes a waterfall … Continue reading
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The Title’s the Thing
Quickly “Use each one as the springboard for a batch of TITLES.” BANYAN Banyan MoonBanyan, A Spiritual JourneyJade Rabbit Fools the BanyanmanPoems as Lovely as a Tree TURNIP Turnip Brownies and other Delicious DessertsThe Topsy-Turvy TurnipThe Stranger on Turnip Hill … Continue reading
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To All the Little People on the Edge of the Promontory
Henri Rousseau Self Portrait from L’ile Saint Louis lost in the shadowsof self-proclaimed giantsbut I like yourcompany the best.Often overlookedlooked down onnot a slave to the timesyou are not justa flash in the pan. Prompt by Mz Q
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All in a Day’s Work
Mz Quickly Day 13 Imagining Machine There’s a swift wind blowingfluffy clouds across the skyherding them, urging them,as eastward they fly. The sprongbucket driverof the wind-maker machinewaves to the busy crewstidying up on the green. It is a beautiful daylaboring … Continue reading
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Mishmash of Genres
Mz Q Day 12 Music I am old country musicHank Williams and Patsy ClineBluegrassBill Munroe and Alison KraussI’m swing – pony tail bouncingblues, jazz, and rock and roll.I’m classical, alternative, emo,folk and elevator music…dependson my moodthere is somethingto stoke the … Continue reading
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The Last Sigh of Day
Mz Quickly Day 11 Wordle In that vast sky all the wayto the attic of that vaulted roofwhere birds of prey and blackwinged crows seem small circlinglike they’re in a roundaboutand can’t get out. And from my vantage pointon a … Continue reading
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Conviction
Mz Quickly Day 10 “Choose some fuzzy topic to define.“ I believein tension between two thingsfaith and doubtand how unreliablecertainty and skepticism.I hope, certainty.I hope, but not sure.I reckon, true measure.I reckon, skepticism. I believebut what I believe is fuzzy. … Continue reading
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apocalypse
Miz Quickly Day 5 Imagine that you are thirsty. The flowersthe treesgrasses and weedsunder a raging sunwiltwitherdroopbegin to brownroots cementedto thecracked ground.Thirst is an arid breathsilent gaspmummified death.
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The November Years
Miz Quickly Day 4 – Word list I didn’t ease into being carefulit came quite suddenly with a thudflat on my back, head on concrete,at the entrance of the mall. Busy mall. Aging has sentenced me – the rest of … Continue reading
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