Best Gusted Poems

In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled in the purity of security 
for what seemed like eternity 
a lamb in His white embrace 
especially when flocked in...

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Oh look here— behold a dandelion woman
the original wild flower!
I go where I want to go
I grow where I want to grow —
don't matter if   y o u   say no

dandelion wine summertime
relax and recline —  remedy just-in-time
I’ll intoxicate all your...

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Old Maid Hadder, Got Madder And Madder


Old maid Hadder, got madder and madder
wind blew her bonnet and wet upon it.
Soaking showers from a blackbird's bladder
taken aback, next she fell doggone it!

Did not matter, her day in a tatter
rain pouring down, gave her another frown.
Wind drove...

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The wind gusted over the forsaken hills
The grasp of its strong, imperishable hands causing a trill of noise 
Echoing and rebounding over the delicate curves of the Earth.

The smell of strong grasses and pollens stuck to the winds never ending lungs
Sending both dirt and leaves...

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What if we live in and out
among and yet autonomously
with and sometimes against
LeftBrain dominant enculturation?

Colonization,
predation with ego-logical economic secular outcomes
too often predicting compromised long-term health
in exchange for conserving an evolutionary win/lose model
serving industriously degenerating corporate conglomerate capital expansion
of wealth devoid of health care giving and...

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Fertile Fields
By Migdalia Torres

A cobbled stone made of red brick, which 
I picked up and placed on a solid white 
rock pressed against Venus whose tales of 
Fertile Fields were just not true 

The myths of the Greek Goddess Blue Moon 
which shined against the...

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Wild is the winding wind
    blowing    breezy       gentle
     blatantly  bold           unafraid
      blustery ...

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Unconventional, they mocked the establishment
Clad in paisley  tops and bell-bottom denim,
With a symbol hanging on necks  wrists  or belts -
An emblem  of inverted V , the birth of  protest
Where murmurs from unrest gusted through lyrics,

In  Woodstock of dreams hailing...

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unexpected changes

winds belied August
gusted from October cold
geese are flocking now....

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Oh, God and Goddess are all around us.
from place to place unguided, 
they’ve found us.

Land of limpid eyes and skies, 
where mystery abounds.
‘Mongst lisping lips, oft heard 
Gaelic limericks sound. 

While gale gusted winds whip wave 
dashed waters to mist;
atop the high cliffs of Moher...

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commissioning and attempted escape
“Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go
And tell them of their great impending woe;
Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.”

But Jonah ran; he traveled down to Joppa.
(Wait, Jonah who? Oh, Amittai’s his poppa.)
Yes, Jonah, in his wisdom, tried to flee.

Escape was...

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I am truly concerned
as i leave my Laskrizon
but,it is a three day's journey
my next black moon destination

I trust all will be well
in my absense
infiltrater's are persistent
Ahpla and pack more than capable

A dreary journey thus far
wind gusted blackened skies
bring stinging rain

Comfort come's from
my two traveling companion's

Nev,an...

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The budding appearance
On the cylindering lily
The fast forming interference
Heating the night chilly

The bird eyed the sparks
Yielding flowering tickles
Clouds ballooned in the parks
The desire designing the sickles

As the colouring heightened
The river curved and charged
The wind gusted and tightened
The poems clouded and enlarged

The sonnet emailed me
Oranging with...

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Sent to the dreary realm that is now my home 
Made to seem I had no choice of what I had to lose
Only memories of my mind which I am left to roam
A captive of  a battle, a judgment I could not refuse 

Maligned...

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Honorable Mention 
Opening Candlewick 
Patricia Cresswell 

she speaks with gentleness to the walls 
leaves her memories and hopes in words 
between the layers of fresh spring paint 
she finds her mother and grandmother’s there 
rising up before, whispering their lives 
as the brush passes in...

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