You taught me
Shackles
They’re not imagined
As I’d hoped
Houdini
Cannot help me now
None magic to be had
Trust, intuition
So much platitude
And for others only
Words
More cheap than ever
Counterfeit Currency
I learned
Tag Archives: Poetry
White Lace and China
All the time you wished to fly
I held out hope
As birdseed at a tiny flowered threshold
To tell you, not tempt you
Take me with you
Stay home
Loved Lies
Love cannot look
As strewn doubt
And decimated rock
As supplanted fear
Amongst trust’s ghost
As words, bright and dark
And words alone
Love cannot be
So long: A Haiku
So long being served
A meal I never asked for
From some strange kitchen
Street Artists
Some yet unseen truth
Some conclusion
To be drawn
Pulled through your lips as poison
What medium
What color-filled aura
Where abandoned wall
And penalty to this vandal
is never
Even before this grand lifetime
I have loved you
Everything else in the meantime
I triumph through
Sitting Up Straight: A Haiku
Have I told you yet
It bleeds effervescent orange
The scent of sunburst
Black Diamond
Here is the why
Certain you’d know
The placement and count of each fleck of amber against the jade green
Iris
Knowing for certain
The from-deep red song you’d hear in your blue bluesy
Heart
This is most difficult
akin
What then
If you’d suffered as I
And I’d shown no passion
No care
To pull you to here from there
Where it’s safe
What then
Could I claim Humanness
Or say I’m your Sister
Come here now
To this side
And thrive
LisaMae
First fearfully made, consecrated one
Then daughter, blessed by a blood second to none
An auntie, to dear flesh -my heart did they steal
Now “Hi Mom” to Tiger, a cub with my zeal
He blessed me, here I stand, in nothing but grace
Surrounded in mercy’s why I seek His face
