i write my poems
for clouds, bees; for brown sparrows
; for flowers; not you
.
haiku
i write my poems
for clouds, bees; for brown sparrows
; for flowers; not you
.
haiku
fall in love
with a writer
you’ll live
ever after
pressed between pages
.
haiku
it won’t self-destruct
but I ask that you eat this
poem
soon
with cream
.
haiku
any one could have
written this poem i’m not
the only one here
.
haiku
napowrimo day 18
.
look inside
the loon at the edge of the pavement
holding up half the sky ~ a woman methinks in
a bloom of candles armed with insurgent poems in
pockets and purse ~ looking up from dirt-pretty puddles
ripping bits of life into fist-sized mid-knight words dulled
picking stars and galaxies out of the wrinkles of her eyes sweet
and sour milks stirred in
with the littlest sounds bleats
clouded moans no-one
remembers to tether
anymore ~ elating
a quiet sentry to other-worldly floating
world artist masquerading as no body ~ look
inside
the gutter – paper scraps machete dance
away
away
a way
.
btw april 18 2021
.
p.s
dear amazon, you didn’t provide me a “Look Inside” option, so i’ve had to improvise
This one comes to us from Stephanie Malley, who challenges us to write a poem based on the title of one of the chpaters from Susan G. Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. The book’s table of contents can be viewed using Amazon’s “Look inside” feature. Will you choose “the poem squash?” or perhaps “grocery weeping” or “the blue socks”? If none of the 60 rather wonderful chapter titles here inspire you, perhaps a chapter title from a favorite book would do? For example, the photo on my personal twitter account is a shot of a chapter title from a P.G. Wodehouse novel — the chapter title being “Sensational Occurrence at a Poetry Reading.”
open the windows
of my poetry hoping
you’ll find the trellis
.
haiku
write you a poem
( felt in tongue or sent in heart )
in sky or in dirt
.
haiku
i’m not a poet
i sighed
i am a poem
keen to read the sighs
.
haiku
up to my elbows
unable to describe ~ in
need of a fresh page
.
haiku
Haiku
.
an airplane ticket
to the place where his poems
come from? sky written