Mother Simile Poems

Yaldabaoth, the lion, ripped open Adam’s side 
Divine life busted out of his bleeding hole 
The mother of life flowed out and became his guide...

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**  Mother Nature Draws the Dawn  **


Already, 
Dawn sets off 
This longitude’s waking,
Displaying nearby trees
Into their scribbled silhouettes
In shades
Of gray with blasts of...

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Time Passing

I can see the wrinkles in the mirror, 
even without my glasses. 
What does that mean? 
They are deep and permanent. 
Youth has fled...

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A beautiful creek running through the fall array
Reflecting the woes of mother nature
In a slice of bliss surrounded by concrete.
Casting worries aside, problems fade away.
The...

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Blue can be a pretty color light to dark it is up to you.
Loving my first Soup write, "Big Blue."
U must not sit around feeling...

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Mother Nature's magnificent, all know:
     when spring imbues new life, year after year,
rays of gold feed the land, and the plants...

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Our America is not a world stage,
And we the black oppressed
Are not mere players; rather, our story here
Is a bloody reality—a bloody reality of our...

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The circadian rhythms of birth, death, and eternity,
Play on in the sunrise of time:
The dread of winter left you naked and bare;
Your bark skin, scale-like,...

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Akin a tumbleweeds  
aimlessly blowing in the wind
umlaut punctuation 
courtesy of let herd Mother Nature 
nsync with markie mark, 

(or other faux nuke heads...

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Mama's Golden Pond Cried


Mama loved to chew 
off the Golden Pond
bone
chew the fat
of their autumn leaves, 
dressed in splendor,
a scenic lake and cabin,
her pseudo stage,
of...

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Katelyn Kirkconnell
4-20-17

Mère

The way she combs her fingers through her hair is captivating;
She always checks herself in the mirror before work to make sure her hair’s...

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rippling

chipped off
the rock of time
a lone pebble pierces 
the soft water of life’s dreams

ripples of hope
spread across the pond
of blurred reality—
ripples bouncing
and dissipating—
curved banks confining
efforts...

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crossing over…

her chilled breath
caressed my cheeks

no reddening here
just a darker ebony hue

the color collage 
of  foliage

canvassed my eyes
falling rainbow tears

dripping to nourish
mother earth

matting
her joseph’s...

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IN THE FAMINE OF JUSTICE

Besieged with wrenching pangs of hunger,
bloating a belly of despair, I painfully called out
to my mother—justice—cold just-
ice.  
With a Mona...

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Shot out like a cannon ball
As mother lay there in her bed
Twisted and contorted 
Push down hard the nurse had said
Audience at bottom end
Were quick...

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