Just give off light flowing like lava from the heat held within, just bathe in light letting pores and capillaries fill with energy pockets, just flash by like light, a storm streak in a dark night of wishing.
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For today’s post I point readers in the direction of Plume, Danny Lawless’s astonishing literary magazine. A recent issue features three poems by Nicole Cooley, all entitled “Trash” and all dealing with mothers and daughters and complicated loss. Here’s one: Trash I have no wanting, I text to myself. Which terrifies me. I circle the…
Sonnet LYII Man, you’re being way too hard on yourself; Don’t bang a hammer on your own head. If you want to make a good statue of an elf, Use a big piece of wood or a rock instead; People’s weak spots are always easy to find, Especially your own, which is why they’re weak;…
The owners of the garden Where the May flower tree Lives Want it to last only for three years But the flower wants to live for four years The bees argue, vehemently, that the flower Always had the right to live for four years ‘The reduction is unjust’ They shout They are punished for that…
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Typical, your weather smitten by love now the wind rushes untimely, ungainly, you were a near disaster the day the quake shook you, me, your culverts, your innards, the wind is stoic, promises change in a pedestrian’s cleft. Leave me alone in these hills, knowing only that the earthquake may or may not arrive in…
They tried to pull her back, but the day had come when she realized there was no going back, Enlightened means no return to the way things were – they could never understand that So, they grow more frail by the day, limited in their vision, as ignorance takes root More at https://wovenstanzas.blogspot.com/ and https://lyrical-discovery.blogspot.com/….
