Life Nourishment Poems

She kisses away the weariness,
Burdens – inklings of the mystery
Birthed by her dream, hope
Remembered in the evening when
The calf nuzzled – her nourishing, nurturing
Gentle as...

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What will I do?
How will I survive?
If they only knew
How much I need…
The hamburger
Potatoes, carrots
All the corn they 
Never realize
Sustains me

Despite my shame
I hurry toward...

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Sun
shining
across the
horizon, bright
whispering joy, hope
glimmering life
over the
lovely
rose
~
Rain
splatters
from the sky
singing graceful
songs that ring laughter
into the soul
raising smiles
across the 
miles
~
Earth
awake
brilliantly
praising heaven
with open palms, raised
to display hope
that comes...

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Pouring down the pane, singing
It’s the praise of soft rain
Gentle, like a sweet kiss falling
On whispering, hopeful lips

Gracious and gifted with faith
Painting the countryside in...

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poetry is the salt and bread
                 and breath of...

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movement of each echo     
  pummels  ^  til outside     
    the...

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I need daily bread
Today more than ever,
Inside life is dead.
Tomorrow seems like never.

Life’s got too complicated
For me to figure out,
I’m lost and suffocated.
Nothing’s real but...

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nourishment abounds

I lie in my thoughts of rain

feeds my empty mind.

 

(January 18, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights...

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One of many...As you recognized 
I spoke to you...Mentally 
You heard me...Physically 
Bringing you to...Life 
As the picture of the...Woman 
I came to hold...Attentively 
To...

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Upon
The tree’s branches
Lays a nest filled with young birds
They’re waiting for their mom’s return
With the food for their growth


English Pensee, 5 lines 2/4/7/8/6 syllables...

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A porcelain bowl upon the table
waits, in colored beauty,
as a stomach sits to gnaw
upon its filigreed edge,
where an artist once painted
pastel fruit, so delectably.

Emerald vines,
sweeping...

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