Category: Love

• Wondrous grit of life

  o’ wondrous pain, illuminating discomfort — how you have painted this earth to suit your ease, the slow swing of your step it is perhaps a sign of your privilege that you praise cuts and bruises to small children who do not know to defend your princess could not sleep with even a pea under…

  Jenifer

  November 4, 2016

  Death, Dying, From Hafiz, Grief, Love, Mother, Muse, Pain, Tanka, Violence

  poetry

• 9/3

  to be lost for this ever, to drink the moon when no one is looking, to return washed clean

  Jenifer

  September 4, 2016

  Ancient, Childhood, Garden, Love, Muse, Nature

  poetry

• I think of love

  I think of love as something that grows form as it ages, sometimes firm, sometimes round, broadening, ambling if allowed. I think of love as an elemental discovery, unwrapping itself time and again, ever revealing eccentricities, hope, a whipped dog who greets the morning with joy. Yes, even then. I think of love as the…

  Jenifer

  August 26, 2016

  Aging, Death, Grief, Love, Meditation, Poem sampler, Public, Violence

  poetry

• Fear and hope are like two wings of a bird

  Today I woke up afraid, hope struggling to be born on this very brink, for my sons, for my city, for my unborn grandchildren (who may choose to never come forth, so unpleasant are we), indeed for my world — for all that is prized, hard fought won conceded cherished revised overturned allowed to decay…

  Jenifer

  July 10, 2016

  Ancient, Grief, Love, Poem sampler, Public, Violence, Yoga

  poetry

• In the sea

  Sometimes, my wife thinks she is still a saber tooth. I call to her to come back and we rock slow, to and fro, in the sea of here and not here. She turns to quiet me, to make me believe, and I lie that I do in our unquiet sea. Shifting away again, she…

  Jenifer

  July 2, 2016

  Ancient, Cro-Magnon, Lake/ocean, Love, Muse, My family

  poetry

• 6/24

  we lay here in our pod the world screams crazy past you ask, ‘What is the world?’

  Jenifer

  June 25, 2016

  Art, Bite-sized sampler, Childhood, Dying, Grief, Love, Mother, Muse, Yoga

  poem, poetry