Tag: poetry
member name: Debbie G.
|
September 09, 2009 10:42 AM EDT --
No one ever needed to shoot God bullets into my heart. Offering lilacs would have done the job as well or better. Westminister church. I sat in God's house expecting to recieve color and fragrance from . . .
more
|
|
January 21, 2009 01:03 AM EST --
Today she put her hand on my shoulder
My mother
Who though agnostic
hated how Hazel was shunned at work
and ridiculed.
Black and Pentecostal.
Two strikes too many against her
in a . . .
more
|
|
July 21, 2009 02:23 PM EDT --
It looked like cowardice to some who carried signs marching 'came out' to families, friends and employers proud and you must know it.
In retrospect I was wrong thinking their acts were only their own . . .
more
|
|
January 15, 2007 01:45 PM EST --
Bewildered I watch
spurned charity disappear.
Snow icing bread crumbs.
more
|
|
February 18, 2007 09:29 PM EST --
Wood smoke and embers
spiraling high into night
stirs something ancient.
more
|
|
April 05, 2007 11:31 AM EDT --
We see things differently, you and I.
You in your powerful places
wearing three button Armani jackets,
Firenze Italiano briefcase ever at your side.
How could you know . . .
more
|
|
January 13, 2008 01:10 PM EST --
Bogie
boxer puppy
frolicks in winter grass.
Jelly-beaning practice today
assures perfection, and treats tomorrow.
Pleading eyes, and wrinkled forehead
melting all resistance . . .
more
|
|
September 15, 2009 07:12 AM EDT --
We have shared some fine adventures you and I.
Traveling together in parallel lives
Crisscrossing often
all types of terrain.
We meet again here
today.
Sharing company before the sun . . .
more
|
|
January 01, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
Not the year ahead
but the now of this today.
Your precious canvas.
more
|
|
January 06, 2009 10:55 AM EST --
Belle titled it Forgery.
The desperate dash, the fight for unmatched blood.
She and I know
it isn't true forgery.
It's worse. Sign the doctor's name/sign your own.
If that baby dies, . . .
more
|
|
October 01, 2009 10:52 PM EDT --
Mesmerizing touch
Newborn son's fingernail grasp
Translucent newness.
more
|
|
January 12, 2007 10:12 AM EST --
Integrity is
personal, expected and
my prerequiste.
more
|
|
December 10, 2006 11:13 AM EST --
Thirsty in Texas
feline memory intact
now laps liquid joy.
more
|
|
December 19, 2006 08:04 AM EST --
Not a rehearsal.
Grow,Give,Struggle,cry and laugh.
Not a rehearsal.
more
|
|
January 01, 2007 09:38 AM EST --
Every sunrise new.
Moments make the year good will.
Count the smiles, not tears.
more
|
|
February 01, 2008 11:40 AM EST --
It was one of those flash and illuminate moments. I sat down with my first cup of coffee, and went straight to a Kill the thread article to see who was still in the running. Enroute I noticed an . . .
more
|
|
October 13, 2006 12:38 PM EDT --
Boxer believing
Slurping running bath water
prevents disaster.
more
|
|
October 15, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
This is what they said about the forecast:
Scattered storms across the area.
This is what I saw
Deep gray-blue cumulous towers
first behind the mountains
then hiding them.
This is what I felt: . . .
more
|
|
January 04, 2009 03:44 PM EST --
If you like the thoughts of friends
raining into your life
washing away your dullness and making you aware
learn Belle Waring
through her collection
Dark Blonde.
more
|
|
February 14, 2009 05:00 PM EST --
I never saw you coming.
I never envisioned such bliss.
I never hoped on the brightest star
that you could even exist.
What did I do in this lifetime
somewhere on a long lonely path
that . . .
more
|
|
|
|
