Speaking(A) Poems

More Than A Soft Toy

...Your fur is worn thin now,
patches where love pressed too hard,
but to me you were never just a toy -
you were the voice of courage
when the dark grew too loud.

I held you like a secret shield...

Dreamtime in Dreamland

...(“Dreaming Gaia”, 2020, original encaustic)

Dreamtime in Dreamland

Over the years I’ve logged a lot of time sleeping
With much of that time in dreamland.

I’ve had plenty of mundane d...

A Quiet Becoming

...What happens when I don’t play my part?
When I stray from the script, and show you my heart?
Speaking a truth that’s too raw and too real. 
No longer wearing a mask and too numb to feel?

This w...

Fly

...
                                Fly

Why must  I die to grow wings to fly
soar like the eagles into the blue
It is not the same riding in a plane
you can never have that view.


           ...

Speaking a Foreign Language

...
   When I speak a foreign language
       I cross my eyes and dot my teas

   Little wonder I substitute ~
                  ‘Thank you’ for ‘Please’
...

all of us free

...Tabby cat and I choose a sunny spot
Loving all the warmth and Vitamin D the sun has brought
Both dogs sit under a shady elm tree
All of us opinionated, all of us free

There is a tiny breeze on ...

A Future Love's Past

...In some future I will voice all that is true,
how I swear your eyes glow, and whisper to me.
But the nonchalance I show, back turned from view,
keeps me a shell, a lock rusted without key.
We was...

How About

...
I have done everything.
I have survived the harshest winters, braved the fiercest jungles, and fought the most heroic battles.
You have too.
You looked to your friend, your eyes gleaming with se...

The Creep Alias Harvey Specter

...got what he wanted at my expense.

Said crack fast talking
hacker and scammer
pulled figurative wool over my eyes
going incognito and speaking a clipped
English mien his disguise.

He appeare...

A Confession

...“Guilty, Sir, if you insist that I am--
Yes, ‘twas I who cut her with a knife and
Took her heart out, so very gently while
It was beating--still beating in my palms.
From the cavity where her hea...

Untouchable

...Sometimes the rain never falls , drowning in the overflow that falls from above
Speaking a word or two , something to do about love
Why do you even care , about all there is that you couldn't even ...

Rushing To and Fro

...Sometimes the rain never falls , drowning in the overflow that falls from above
Speaking a word or two , something to do about love
Why do you even care , about all there is that you couldn't even ...

Hummingbird

...I hear the  whirrrrrr
  of hummingbird
hovering 'round  my head
speaking  a language
   I know not,
Much like  perhaps
  the speak  of life....

The Dreadful Day

...See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their pare...

Looking Back With the Hand Break Off

...Being older than I once was, inevitably places have changed,
yet where I was born now looks like an alien city to me,
it’s now a tourist destination for the ever rootless.
Back then people were da...

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