Garner Poems

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...Storms off Cape Verde garner strength in the Oceans.
Fed by seas of angry, restless spirits,  Middle Passage emotions....

Pure Intentions

...Speaking for a while to a person is a quest that becomes more than a completion.
It becomes the words between friends and then the quest is updated.
At this point the words become the words of rela...

My Brother's Book

...My brother’s book deserves a look
And not just for the time it took,
But for the family tree he shook
To show the need to strive.

His characters are loosely based
On relatives whose lives he t...

Cash strapped despondent citizen banker

...Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...

the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know 
like the back of my clawed hand),...

Cash strapped despondent citizen banker

...Cash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...

the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know 
like the back of my clawed hand),...

I Am Called Woman

...Sometimes, I find myself on a battleground
in the present or in sieges from the distant past
It may be a war I've been waging within myself,
a thorn that needs plucking so that I might heal
I wea...

Tomorrow will be too late

...Employing absolute freedom innate,
as the subject, the object and the means
the triad of energies shapes our fate,
with the light of Self veiled behind five screens,
the densest being our organic...

the good fight

...
* In my dad’s memory, and for all those who have dealt with the ravages of Lewy Body Dementia. *

              ~
 
oh Dad, how I wished you realized how much
    I longed throughout life to g...

hastening angel

...(A repost from 2019)

My favorite aunt is dying.. cancer, quiet and consuming as a flame..

Seven short weeks ago she was easily doing an hour of step aerobics, unaware of this intruder, this mur...

Zen mode

...What is there to think, much less do,
when breath by breath bliss beats renew, 
a benign fire in which we burn,
borne by divine grace, which we woo.

As nodes within form gently churn,
vaporise...

Recognition

...Recognising we are in truth living light,
in a domain transcending both time and space,
feeling complete we enjoy unbound delight,
yet to grow in love, steps toward earth retrace,
where once our ...

The Bride's Dreams

...She had thought that love was only a game; something one could wear like a badge to garner envy amongst friends. The chill of the night enfolds her troubled emotions where dreams are unwelcome. A Sty...

Alphabet Soup

...Alphabet soup 
Brain food
Carrying mood
Daring attitude
Elicit creativity
Fudge negativity
Garner expressions
Hold court
Imagination distorts
Jam uncontrollably
Keen lyrically
Love life 
...

Ah methinks I could sleep forever

...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever

Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by mi...

everywhere

...buttery morning
light
licks

there are daintily cupped blooms
small white weeds
that no one can name

the sun has spread its table

green rippled gardens
garner
flecks of gold

an old g...

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