I planted a tree in your holy garden. Made my way through old auditoriums of memories playing on dirty screens. This place is not what I thought it was. I was not who I thought I was. I watered the sand bank until it collapsed down to the rest of the earth. Soon a stream …
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Late autumn New York City Translucent blue sky Cool Waiting for Darkness Universal Wilderness Let the leafless trees tell the story Going home to you A glass of wine Dinner in the stove Heartbeats Your Gaze This romance The post Going Home to You | G. S. Katz appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to…
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For at least one moment’s wingspan I am free from worry, liberated from all the needle voices, then memory and life bring me back down into my suit of care. The post A Free Moment | Roger Still appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
A lady’s yard littered with stone rounds where creatures dip it’s a wonder how long she’s lived here, the trumpet vines declaring her life a target at the end of the drive indicates a man lives or lived here, but he’s nowhere now and from the looks of it, the house has an attic and…
“The Power of the Fragile” by Mohamed Toukabri. Photo © Christian Tandberg The last time I saw my mother she was in a hospice bed, barely alive; I can’t remember the year. I grabbed her hand, muttered “Bye, Ma”, left the room, drove to the airport. The last, and perhaps only, time I remember my…
If he had Danced a slow foxtrot She would not Have vanished Had he swayed With the music Never could he Have forsaken her But the rains came With deafening voices And the fires Yet triumph How foolish Were they More at http://shannon50.dudaone.com/poetry-by-bonnie. The post Climate Change | Bonnie Burka Shannon appeared first on Best…
