Michelle Faulkner Poet Lento

Our New Normal

Extract crimson hope, ruthless needles
Distract my dark thoughts, bleeding ink
Contact sanitized gloved sensations
Contract, as cancerous demons shrink

Dew pretty mornings carry fever
Blue icepacks chase lush, littered heat
Too many germs lurk everywhere - our
New normal household, bittersweet

1/26/20

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Constance La France February 10, 2020 at 1:58 PM Michelle, congratulations on your win in my Lento writing prompt challenge with this wonderful write _Constance

Andrea Dietrich February 9, 2020 at 1:01 PM Sad and deep one, Michelle. Congrats on your win.

M. L. Kiser February 5, 2020 at 12:25 PM I have never attempted one of these but you seem to have done it well though sad.

Kai Michael Neumann February 3, 2020 at 4:29 AM That is so sad ...

Jan Allison February 1, 2020 at 5:31 PM Sending healing thoughts Michelle, hope it's not long before you are back home and the treatment is over, keep spilling the ink... it was my hubbies cancer which got me writing my first poem 'splendid isolation hugs Jan xx Michelle Faulkner February 1, 2020 at 11:24 PM Thank you, Jan (he"s actually the one getting bit by all the needles!)

Rico Leffanta January 27, 2020 at 2:04 PM If only we could get those germs out of the White House! Bonne chance! Aloha! Rico

Gershon Wolf January 26, 2020 at 8:23 PM Pierces the heart instantly. May healing winds wing your way! ~ Gershon

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart January 26, 2020 at 5:24 PM Powerful and evocative, excellent poem. I feel it in my gut. Hugs <3 Michelle Faulkner February 3, 2020 at 9:37 PM Thank you, hugs back-

Arturo Michael January 26, 2020 at 4:54 PM Changes...really hard, even sad sometimes...I can feel it here Michelle Faulkner February 3, 2020 at 9:36 PM Thank you, Arturo