Category: Dying

• Day 11

  white bird flickers through tree branches, landing low, behind rusted fence onto the unseen river

  Jenifer

  April 11, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 6

  empty lanterns, with leaf-littered, winter-worn skin, dangle in the dark breeze, biding your time, doubting

  Jenifer

  April 6, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Seasons, Tanka

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 4

  wind obscures all it runs through does not know its own name or mine; I give it my leaf

  Jenifer

  April 4, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 3

  dried wheat bending, kneeling in the soft breeze open a path to deep underneath

  Jenifer

  April 3, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Twin waters

  Water runs in streams through sandy swales, clear and cold and quick, carves underedges along tiny banks, trails pebbles too large to carry forward, and returns again in its own path to the great, wild churning. .. Water glides over broken asphalt, shifts its course over sharp, jagged cracks, deposits mud, clay from baseball diamond…

  Jenifer

  March 10, 2015

  Chicago, Dying, Meditation, Nature, Pentwater, Seasons

  #dversepoets, poetry

• The dying thoughts of a poet from Gorham’s Cave

  I do not know what I should expect you to come to know as you unwrap my bones and the tissues of my belongings. I carved this mark for you, no one else, hoping it would make me known to you. But when young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shines once more, it will be…

  Jenifer

  January 22, 2015

  Aging, Ancient, Cro-Magnon, Dying, Memory, Muse, Poem sampler

  poetry