Tag: poetry

• 7/7

  sails bend across the lake winds turning, twisting to oblivion ant carries sand dodging foaming surf

  Jenifer

  July 8, 2015

  Childhood, Nature, Nested tanka, Pentwater, Seasons

  poetry

• 7/5

  cattails carousing the pond, giant metronomes swaying in mixed currents, crisscross rhythms drumming down the afternoon sun

  Jenifer

  July 5, 2015

  Garden, Nature, Nested tanka, Seasons

  poetry

• A piece at a time

  Splintering the absolute into small, uneven shards I can hold, set down, recall, be haunted by; mismatching its pieces, mistaking one for the other, a few for the whole, obscured at every try.

  Jenifer

  July 2, 2015

  Art, Dying, Love, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Yoga

  poetry

• How trees grow

  Boy trails old man along stream bed cuts into damp soil slips sapling into crevice weighs heel to seal the earth trails further pausing when old man pauses cutting when old man cuts slipping when old man slips heeling when old man heels And so it goes all afternoon and into night how trees grow…

  Jenifer

  June 25, 2015

  Aging, Childhood, Family, Father’s Day, Illinois, Memory, Nature, Pentwater, Seasons

  #dversepoets, poetry

• Unborn child

  My first lie was before you were conceived and I prayed that if you were a girl, you must have Jeff’s hair, because all my years as a little girl I had dreamt of having just that hair, waving soft back and forth, all the time knowing God does not take a grocery list he…

  Jenifer

  June 19, 2015

  Aging, Childhood, Death, Family, Love, Memory

  poetry

• If this were my only way to you

  I turn, seeking the hawk to bring my message to you, to receive yours to me, and wonder if he shall bend his wings toward me, ever or now, to dip into my heart and take from it that note, most unmixed, to swirl its eternal wings to the expanding night, to all of the…

  Jenifer

  June 13, 2015

  Art, Death, Love, Meditation, Memory, Muse, Yoga

  poetry