Best Hushing Poems

my fingertips
touch ...
tender, but with melodic intent
you tremble
just SO ...
and sigh sweetly
the delightful answer
to my questioning hands
a gentle press ...
your supple curves against me
fitting me...

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soft, soft, I ring the bells
          soft, the bluebells blooming
      ...

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Fluted hands angle on knees as glimpses 
sort the knitted threads of a late afternoon
where gathering of blooms abide.
Almost friendless, a man inhabits his space
ready...

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I 
knew
your woods
through every
quiver of bonfires...
although our music pealed a wind
flamed  evensongs   quickly  languished,
cleaving my breaths into dry twigs; and hushing...

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stared at the two passionate lines for the longest time,
       what I wrote ..I created ... as if in...

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(i.m. Nicola Bulley)

Mist-shrouds are wrapping
Around the River Wyre's weir,
Rain-swollen waters...
Currents of secrets rushing,
Hushing reed-wrapped daffodils.



31 March 2023
March Into April Tankacrostic poetry contest...

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Looking all around me and becoming more aware,
Of the people and surroundings at which many children stare.

I come to terms and realize the acts of...

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Soft, soft, I ring the bells
          Soft, the bluebells blooming
      ...

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Sleeping In Nana’s

day concludes in glory
beyond the forest wall
suspended on a whippoorwill’s song

a muffled out board glides the narrows
past Hick’s farm
humming its sated fisher home

somewhere...

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New day, the same circle conversation!
I slow speak my felt truths,
You stumble-spin lame accusations
And another valid topic will thrash itself mute.

We should just get a...

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The morning mists falling from Snapdragon eyes
Standing on high peaks viewing the verve of diversity
Starlit nights viewing the galactic milieu painted above
The promise once made...

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We’ve gathered in the country far away
from city traffic, and there is no rule
that says where we must park our cars. This day
will soon turn...

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I come consistent, end-of-day

          To lay my troubles down and pray

     ...

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Silence swarming with noise
Sounds blasting, like a war
Penetrating proof of the clamorous
Blare, blaze, flaming craze
Hues of doubt pouring out on the calm
Darkness sinking into the...

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Bleeding music into
A heart who cries
Tears so gentle, so tender
They reflect the hope
So often called to mind
By one who knows
Lost love – left behind

Breathing light...

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