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- Column: The Making Of A Collaborative Poem: Kaibab and Carol at allpoetry
kaibab and Carol and a moment of Muses mirrored mirage of poetic ponderings. - Column: Some of my better responses at allpoetry
Something to consider - Column: Living A Soufully Authentic Life at allpoetry
Living a Soulfully Authentic Life
A long time ago, I garnered great respect for the healing work of journaling. In my career, I became indelibly aware that there are no words for some things. I am a writer, and I innately kn - A Sister's Harmony at allpoetry
Entwined within the words and sounds
hum and squall - Grabbing a Breath at allpoetry
As the Winds of change blow,
life is created, love is celebrated - Owning A Light at allpoetry
It flutters like lightning bug in jar
kept hidden in a dark place - Eve's Apple at allpoetry
Such fine potential for apple pie,
apple crisp, apple of my eye ~ - Soul's Slam at allpoetry
Intent~
beneath rusted hinges, - A Halting Memory at allpoetry
Some blue moon nights
settle like slather and lather - Vague Lines at allpoetry
Window darkens with deep night
but my hands create sunlight - An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe at allpoetry
Autumn blazed from her eyes
diamonds tapped on soles of her shoes - Beached Black Swan at allpoetry
relative to music
Is a black swan that stays after dark - No Doom And Gloom Beneath The Surface at allpoetry
A crushed petal is always a crushed petal;
a flower draws up into her pure bud - A Flaming Desire at allpoetry
Struggle to smuggle self
to light - Niibaa-anamaíegiizhigad at allpoetry
Cold Moon carving
of crooked stick - Love To Hate at allpoetry
Title given
Word Bank #7 - Anchor at allpoetry
reserved - Snow Blind Winter Of The Soul at allpoetry
a slow and plodding walk
to winter’s high brow - So Like Me at allpoetry
It is so like me to eat mangos only in winter,
to wish a walk when I am thigh high in snow, - one moment at allpoetry
one moment - Craven Crow at allpoetry
I know you:
heart, black as coal - Baying Of Hounds at allpoetry
Sun hides behind arms;
icy fingers and frozen palms - Ache To Be Airborne at allpoetry
having wings trimmed
is a painful affair~ - I Will Dance Poetry at allpoetry
I may dance
with decided limp~ - I Am Fire Born at allpoetry
Through fire was I born ~
through fire I live~ - Tipped at allpoetry
Night shield glitters and moon,
faceful and fretful, - Snake Charming at allpoetry
Does he feel it slither
in his night dream dynasty - Beyond Reasoning at allpoetry
smudgy sweaty voices
lifting decibels above hearing - Crow Creation at allpoetry
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Iridescent shutters its feathers - Almost High Noon at allpoetry
Silly angsty little ants:
- Elephantine thoughts at allpoetry
The mind is an elephant,
gray and rough-hided, - On Eating Chocolate at allpoetry
brown language
sensually sipped - A Sleeping Giant at allpoetry
He said
her strength washed over him; - A Palm On The Pane at allpoetry
Beyond litter and glitter
glares a frozen pane - Sunshine at allpoetry
We knew
your voice singing sunshine - Kibun at allpoetry
She is blossoming yellow
in a garden we seldom see - A New River In The Making at allpoetry
I am a river, spent;
driven forward through time, - Pulpy Passion at allpoetry
Grandmother knows ways to scatter breadcrumbs
to coax a child’s tongue to sip at journeys - Seasons' Reasons at allpoetry
Come icy earth
and brittle’s break - Drop-Dead Dirge at allpoetry
wavering line of icy seaside foam
where winter churns in its Nor’easter - A Poet’s Holy Hover at allpoetry
Hands against swirled stone,
like hand to body of woman - Ever-pressed at allpoetry
She presses her cheeks to his papyrus skin,
breathes in lingering smoke and man smell - Failure at allpoetry
The bruise above her cheek
- Loose at allpoetry
I was waiting for roses
silken petals perfuming - Watching The Retch at allpoetry
One kind of maple tree turns deep red.
She’s angry - I am Reclaiming This Land at allpoetry
Filling in drug-raw depths
rising like scab on clear-treed hills, - Achingly Airborne at allpoetry
Thoughts, like birds, inhabit my head;
leaving a fury of feelings, - She weeps small laughter at allpoetry
She weeps small laughter
- Motor Cross-Over at allpoetry
Round and round track
Team Canada - A Drain at allpoetry
I love you,
but I am not in-love - Generational Re-Bait at allpoetry
Arching arm, like casting line;
fly settling after its flurry in sky, - Back-braced Woman at allpoetry
Winter-belly Woman
- My Foreign Soil Soldier 1900 at allpoetry
Red felt and black strap soldier,
blistered feet limping, - Rotting Meet at allpoetry
Nettles of needle-prick wisps,
rising like sharp words, - Becoming Wolf at allpoetry
cast mask
plastered gauze - Tea and A Book at allpoetry
A Thousand Splendid Suns
curdling on coffee table, - Crusted City at allpoetry
The hour is dark, silver-slick moonlight
ices this scene like Christmas cake - Path Of Friendship at allpoetry
Tamping down a path
- I Choose Cremation at allpoetry
Depth, like felt in plunge
rocky relief to tickle water - Societal Step-ladder at allpoetry
It is always there,
not here - Soaked at allpoetry
Tears, gathered up
in trickle down rush - Never Over at allpoetry
Once
- Wound at allpoetry
Ringlets wound
round - Slipped Slip at allpoetry
After hands, scrubbed of mud,
polished themselves on her shape, - Hair's Breadth at allpoetry
Space between skin on skin,
between breath and bone, - I'm In at allpoetry
Just need some time here, but afraid this will fill up quickly. - Butter Mold at allpoetry
Grandmother put on airs;
patting kitchen-churned butter - Slippery Slopes at allpoetry
Water totters, newly,
after being raised high, like child - White Light at allpoetry
frozen lips at teeth grind
down hard - Halt Of Holocaust at allpoetry
Oh where is my family?
Wave upon ocean wave, brought sorrow - Winter's Wrap at allpoetry
I put you to bed,
tucked in bottom and sides - A Moment at allpoetry
creating - Chewing Through Chain-link at allpoetry
Once, when I was idealistic,
seashores sounded like home - River Run at allpoetry
at bridge of nose
is a crevice - Runaway Granddaughter at allpoetry
“Once a runner, always a runner,” they said.
- Headed For The Heat Of Horizon at allpoetry
bristle-cheeked sunset
rubbed me raw - A New Fire Crackles at allpoetry
Picture an old Native American Man sitting under the sun canvas
speech and prayers rising up through the center smoke hole - Looking For Scraps at allpoetry
I run fingers across spines,
stacked and pressed on store shelves, - Old-Fashioned at allpoetry
Stones, pregnant with possibilities,
unearth themselves, - Cooled Creation at allpoetry
New Hampshire’s granite:
cooled evolution - Coming Of Closed Eyelid Season at allpoetry
warm breath of summer
taken over by dry rough gasp - Menacing Monotone at allpoetry
Bone dry days
crisp lisp leaves - Dropped-down Desire To Genuine Gratitude at allpoetry
There is a hum in the hollow of my footstep
I have not silenced - Many Grey Horses at allpoetry
I thought I had forgotten
teeth of Rocky mountains - Kissed By Marshmello Moonlight - for ten thousand cicadas at allpoetry
Holy hum of ten thousand cicadas,
vibrating their voices in steady song of poems - As If Last Ones Alive - for Bunny at allpoetry
Let’s go down where water hums,
down where fronds are fanned, - No Glass Slippers at allpoetry
She ruches midnight velvet
by candlelight - Scatter Of A Swift Broom at allpoetry
whisk of straw broom-wind,
wild and with attempt - Cate Michelle at allpoetry
Thou art the voice of your father’s father,
breath of your mother’s mother, - A Hopeful Wail at allpoetry
- Membered Music at allpoetry
He knew her;
- Not Work at allpoetry
He said:
Poetry is not work - Weaving And Breathing at allpoetry
suspended
- Oh, yeah, Me... at allpoetry
too - The Risk Of Sharp Edges at allpoetry
I risk sharp edges
for the feel of papyrus - All Fall Down at allpoetry
Stipple and nipple of stunned time
drawn in like smocking on pinafore - Fatal Fall From Grace at allpoetry
I could not save you;
- To Breathe Again at allpoetry
Although I am way beyond child-bearing,
I till soil in preparation for babies’ pursed lips - Fear Of Caves at allpoetry
Sometimes when I write
I feel myself caving in - Rumpled at allpoetry
such kind conversation
crawls between - Cold Clutch at allpoetry
Glittergold bold blossom
cramped petals fried - A Godly Quiet at allpoetry
Moon moves away from being framed
by lacy curtains dancing - Forever? at allpoetry
a fire flicks its last warning
an ash, dances its last flaming flamingo - Satisfied at allpoetry
stipple skin
flutter of eyelet - She's Come Untethered at allpoetry
tethered to earth, like hawk to hand,
I strained against leathery bonds - Restless Riot Of Colors at allpoetry
I cannot
- Crowning The Quiet at allpoetry
a woman gives birth in deepest forest,
cleanses child of its journey, - Pouting, She Plods Off to Bed at allpoetry
I left my favorite plant
out on patio’s planked platform - After Gathering Up To Go at allpoetry
before mother died,
there were little flashes of her sunset - Shadowed at allpoetry
shadowed ~
- Lightly at allpoetry
light
- Sky And Eye at allpoetry
stipple, whipple, sky
holding up a startle of stunned birds - The Door at allpoetry
Faith swung on rusty hinges
- a walk through fog at allpoetry
oh hide me, wrap me
in the shelter of anonymity, - A Minute at allpoetry
1. Going home into the darkness of false light. - Flight Out at allpoetry
winter’s grip and rip and stippled fear of freezing
solid - Speak To Me In Tongues at allpoetry
- Hold Me Until My Heart Remembers at allpoetry
Spirits raise their eyebrows
and on high horizon, angels appear; - False Light at allpoetry
I am in love with sunny days
and you knew it: - Do-Gooders' Hypocrasy at allpoetry
Man has chiseled castles out of old stone,
cultivated gardens, fields, forests - Ticked at allpoetry
I hate those nights
when the only sound is tick - Dreading Dark Brow Of Sky at allpoetry
Sometimes, when the forest is still and waiting
for a change in the weather, there is a signal - Stuffed Bird at allpoetry
I have been afraid of your voice
even if it danced along wires, - Man or Monster? at allpoetry
I have been loved
by man - Beautiful Mind at allpoetry
Do not tell me I have a beautiful mind:
- The Will Of A Spring at allpoetry
Sorrow can not soothe this wetted cheek,
nor paint over darkened eyes, - I Love Ghosts at allpoetry
Something stumbled over my rock garden
to clip off the prettiest gourd flowers - Only One Kind Of Pelican Can Dive at allpoetry
before she stretched out her arms
and tempted the need to fly, - Love Needs No Language at allpoetry
Love is not a spoken language
in the garden - The Absolute Truth at allpoetry
One does not need mouth to know words,
nor ears to hear sound you can describe, - Creative-cide at allpoetry
*nudge* *nudge*
- Bark-bound Sisters at allpoetry
My sister, bent like a willow, full-fruited like apple,
bone-dry and ashen -faced, but bearing a new nation; - Illusions Of Moon at allpoetry
Old stories of old tragedies
recalling havoc on new boats - Between Me and Thee at allpoetry
Perhaps you thought
words I work at - Willow-Reaching at allpoetry
She wakes;
hair spread - Satin Surrender at allpoetry
Satin skin slip
- Free-Fall at allpoetry
Strapping myself to a plane
wasn’t an option - A Stone's Throw at allpoetry
Home is a stone’s throw
from this bowl of belief - me, me, mine, mine ..i wanna be 20 or heck 21 woudl do nicely at allpoetry
mememememem toooooooooooooo - Detoured at allpoetry
When East called to me, crackling on a thin line,
I was North: Cold burned my eyelashes off - He Has Gone To The Woods at allpoetry
He has gone to his woods;
a quest for truth that cannot be found - Ciphering at allpoetry
In scheme of dream and draw of color
life saturates colors of rainbows and dry bones, - Her Ink at allpoetry
Just a wisp of a woman, hovering, like bird,
over life, and leavings, and knows when to linger - The Farmer’s Daughter at allpoetry
His words have been bundled up
and kind ones have fallen - No Shelter In This Storm at allpoetry
Sparrows harvesting sky clotted with micro bits
of bully-bugs zigzagging - The Distance Between Us at allpoetry
There’s a tropical storm seething on a coast,
careening across southwestern states - Waiting On Paiute's Plateau at allpoetry
I know a Kaibab where Paiutes pummeled ground
with their paints, soft soled ponies with hand of warrior - That Kind of Loneliness at allpoetry
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- [ ] at allpoetry
Not a total eclipse of the sun, a partial
like trying to remember a whole face - She Was Once The Apple Of Someone’s Eye at allpoetry
Eden and its apple, cheeks rubbed with rose petals;
pinched pink above heavy silk skirt, - taking shape at allpoetry
feel of clay between palms,
seeping through fingers, - What To Do About Death's Knock at allpoetry
All his life was a set of directions:
He had plans and those plans included learning - Dinsosaur Daughters at allpoetry
There are stories in this forgotten land;
sand and tumbleweed tortured earth, - Book of Sorrows at allpoetry
Without you, I would not have had such sad poetry
and perhaps, that would have been the saddest thing of all. - Prophets For Profit at allpoetry
Storm on horizon: Watered down sky
and a grumbling and rumbling - Pounced-Tight Tapestries at allpoetry
Pigtailed tucked beneath our collars
so briars and brambles would not snatch and drag, - Fine Line Between Heaven And Earth at allpoetry
A tree is an arm I lean against to count stars;
braced as I make spackled wishes - Grandmother’s Photographic Moment at allpoetry
once she wore flame clinging to her legs - No Proof Needed at allpoetry
Clinging to a shadow as old as ground; - Casket Calmness at allpoetry
A fixed moment like butterfly pinned - A Weep In Montana at allpoetry
a speck of fractured rain slapped prairie’s dry tongue - Sound at allpoetry
You were the sigh I heard in pines when leaves list to orange hurt of fall - Lethbridge's Leavings at allpoetry
I was suddenly grateful I was a smoker And no one smoked in the house - Hecate's Halt at allpoetry
Suddenly it ends; that blackberry stain of cave-dwellers’ crawl down thorny stem - Lost, Found, Lost at allpoetry
thought like a crow feather dropped - Blessed Liar at allpoetry
Jittery whoosh and push of truth spills hot on shrinking roses - Long Before The Train Wreck at allpoetry
We do not often think of Love as “Train”, nor do we cling to Love as Journey; - That Kind Of Silence at allpoetry
I. a fog moving over an ocean spit, - minute here at allpoetry
Quote - 'The blossom may drift away upon the softest breeze, but the scent remains forever'. - Caution's Call at allpoetry
In caw and craw of cairn’s call is a paternal pleading for us to know - Butterfly's New Nook at allpoetry
In wheat-shaft draft of winnowed row. sway green-grown skirts of weave and leave - Last To Come, First To Go at allpoetry
Circle, stir and silent whir of what we see as black, - Words under glass at allpoetry
one moment - Inukshuk With A New Name at allpoetry
Sharpening teeth on caribou ribs barely cooked over a winter’s picnic fire ~ - [ ] at allpoetry
Enclosed spaces, like that of birth, womb or tomb of rite - Mud Pie at allpoetry
Once begun, they say, the whole pie is prize - Eminent Goodbye at allpoetry
They gather: Taupe strokes of sumi brush seeping on wet canvas of deepening blue - Bark-Scrubbed Wounds at allpoetry
Oh, Amir, I will grow a new tree in the very spot of your demise - Smoke Whispers at allpoetry
whispers on cheeks, on throat, on chest; tears trailing down your hand - Sampson Shearer at allpoetry
thinking you were asleep brush cut bent out of shape - Adding Spices at allpoetry
Brown garden plucked empty of orby obvious promises, subjugates a gainful gardener to jolts of joy - Playground Pathos at allpoetry
We were see-sawing; you were up and I was down - Annie Gets her Gold at allpoetry
I’ve had my hair done, in secret; pink and purple stripes - Yearn of Yawn at allpoetry
Anguish arches like a broken bird attempting to glide, one-winged, - You Are Toast at allpoetry
rings stamping tabletop coffee collecting, not dust, - Mouthing at allpoetry
Your manness, bidden by brawn and bravado bold and brave bidding for no favor but for this: - [ ] at allpoetry
After the act of making love - Black Holes And Empty Spaces at allpoetry
You were figment of some black night’s imagination - Bracelet at allpoetry
I no longer love you: I love the very loss of you I resent that drag, like grabbing fists - Re-Vision - 3000th poem on AP at allpoetry
Like dog that circles round and round its bed, like flock of geese spiraling over the downed, - That Kind of Depression - for Sarahs at allpoetry
I. she sees things in shades of gray, - Altered Most Beautiful Thing at allpoetry
It was not aroma, nor hands clinging to beer mug, - [ ] at allpoetry
There are colors I can describe, but not without comparison - Bent To Frond at allpoetry
breath on a window pane memory etching a name on my heart - I Shall Call You Vincent at allpoetry
I feel your hands on my sky, the tortured concentric swirls - The Proposed Journey Of A Drop Of Water at allpoetry
does it have a voice? it has a word, maybe a phrase, - The Lady Who Spins at allpoetry
one day by one year - Be Night, Be Fear, Be Knock at allpoetry
Moon has surrendered to her sleep, trees have settled in to sigh, - A Muddle of A Monsoon at allpoetry
Thundery brow breathes grit, foam laps gaping white wounds, - Knitted By Night at allpoetry
In the dusk a woman calls to me; that one knitting stories,
