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ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE

...ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE*
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I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pinki...

THOSE WE LOVE

...Poem submitted to "Those We Love Poetry Contest," Mystic Rose, sponsor

ECHOES
I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the sciss...

FIRE

...River makes its final clunk
Between
Hills
Rolling boulders like turtle shells
Empty of their mouths and hearts

River bent
Flailing legs and neck
No longer reflects
The sun and moon
From wa...

Needlework of a Quiet Mind

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Written: May 2nd, 2025 for Brian Stand contest

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spools of emotion

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   d

    l

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stitching memory

a pat...

Spools

...I am an inked ribbon
fed through an old manual typewriter.
Like all old typewriters,
the machine originated
in the belly
of a behemoth steam punk engine,
one already equipped
with an Artificia...

Serious Seamstress Sue

...Her mother was a seamstress, her aunts and grandma too
She had grown up into it naturally, serious seamstress Sue.
Her house was full of fat quarters, there were pins on her floor
Tiny bits of emb...

Winding Up

...

   Spools for a day.
   Wound up with what they say.
   Tighter and tighter.
   The insanity won't go away.
   A year or two marinating.
   Chaos has won.
   Then the spring becomes undone....

no one is human on the Metro

...There is a race to get to the turnstile
Two young men jump over
A guard yells “hey” but no one leaps to follow them
I meet a stranger’s eye
We both smile but not in a wide way

Young women in t...

Season Change

...The house is colder now
  as autumn sheds its leaves
  the push-pull  falls wildly beneath the plows
  along the edges of the gutters and eaves.
perhaps because the house is emptied
  of all the...

Knots of thought

...Where to run?
There's nowhere to go
Where to hide?
I can't go below

I cry, I cry
I sigh, I sigh

The world's a mess
As am I 
So when I'm stressed
I look to the sky

Why, oh, why was I p...

Blame

...It simmers. This constant invisible, hovering 
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening 
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into black stripes meltin...

Hymn and Psalm

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Journey Journal Page
HYMN AND PSALM
By Leon Enriquez


Here we now pray
Fond hymn and psalm
Upon the way
In surreal calm


Now soul and heart
Join body-mind
As breath feels art
In...

Stars of Clarity

...Written: November 19, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than t...

Threads

..."When threads of love are frayed, 
                a heart is left threadbare and broken."
                                                  ~ by poet.


Threads from my yesteryears remai...

Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor

...Please help yarn hexed door neighbor...

Yours truly pinned down by invisible 
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague 
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly misto...

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