Gentle shuffling, tumbling,currents flowing, opening, closing, oozing, knowing, bubbles floating, soft insides trembling,hard shell shielding. Stomp, stomp.Crack the shell.No more fortress,all is not well! Pain inside flowing out,only the shell remains.The rest is finally freeto merge into grains. Carried then by waves onto the sand, hard still,but oh, so fragile;I lie in your gentle hand, waiting. © 2000 Joanne […]
Poetry Corner: Teddy
He lies now in her memory bin,chocolate and cream,sandwiched between herdaughter’s board books and herson’s lambswool comforter. Not as plush as in the picture,that hand-tinted photo of the two-year-old girlholding him, silky-new, not yet smelling of lost youth’s dust. She looked passively into the camera,just inks of black, white and grayuntil the tinter stroked her […]
Poetry Corner: Job, a Conversation with God
“The Lord has given,and the Lord has taken away;blessed be the name of the Lord.” Blessed? I’m not so sure.My faith feels shreddedby shards of painfrom the broken windowof my life.(And Job groans) “All the world’s a stage….”and I am the master player,tossing Jobs from stage to stage,castles to dung heaps every day.(And God smiles) […]
Poetry Corner: Your Sword of Luck
Suffer your heart’s gateway open.Rust those blades with your tears. May the point of luck be with you. Smear that blood upon your cloak.Hold fast the opening in your soul. May your staff of will be your luck. Spin your wheel among the stars.Hang on dangling for the upswing. May the luck of Jupiter shine […]
Poetry Corner: Angel That You Are
Oh, it can silence your song of love,that voice of judgment in your ear;lock you up dark in that prison of fear. Release the heart of your courage, then;break those bars, spread your wings,let loose your golden voice to sing, Angel that you are. Release the pain that holds you tight,dance to the tune of […]
Poetry Corner: In the Beginning
There is One,the infinite circle,and it just…be. No sun, no moon,no water, no land,no drama, no trauma,so…. There be light!There be darkness.There be sound.There be silence. The circle folds,infinity twistsinto showering stars;world bends and is born. Flowers stretch beautyagainst a curtain of rain,a canopy of leavescreator calls sane. Crawly bug is born,feathered friend,then a furry […]
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