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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
No blue hair or curls for me.
I’ll grow old naturally.
Hanging breasts and flattened bum,
crooked teeth and graying gum.
Sagging knees and chicken skin,
sunny spots and double chin.
Silver streaks through thinning hair,
dimming eyesight no repair.
Crinkly crow’s eyes and flat feet
singing as the Maker I meet.
I don’t care what you say,
I can’t hear you anyway.
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2023
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
She awoke
to a blazing sun,
brightest orb,
day’s lover.
The moon, jealous of her love,
cried for the night’s loss.
She, sleeping,
missed the soft caress,
silken touch,
palest rays
that beckoned her to waken
and taste their sweetness.
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2022
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
I wrote this letter
today
knowing you’d never see it.
I wrote so carefully,
as if I thought you could reflect
on my words and carefully fold them
within your heart.
I wish you could have heard the words
one more time before you left.
Your journey so quickly arrived
that no one had
the chance to say good-bye,
not even I.
I have spoken with you
every day you’ve been gone,
oh, these many years,
as if we were speaking face-to-face.
Not a day have I forgotten how my heart leapt
to see your face, your smile.
Your visage has never left me as many say it does.
Always
you raised my awareness,
made me use logic without losing humanity.
You shared your confidence in me and gave me
the push I needed to be the best self I could.
I confide my secrets,
my deepest, darkest thoughts,
and share with you my life and loves,
my good deeds and my bad,
knowing
you still watch over me.
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2022
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
When cheerful daisies fail to bloom in Spring
and the buds dry on the vine;
when the robin no longer attempts to sing
and the rivers turn into brine;
when the fireflies of Summer do not glow
and the rain can’t reach the earth;
when the seven seas cease their ebb and flow
and the ship is mired in its berth;
when Autumn loses its brilliant colors
and prevailing winds stand still;
when nevermore dwell ardent lovers
and hearts shed their romantic thrill;
when Winter holds no wonders to show
and the sun, no reason to shine;
when the mountain knows not of snow
and the stars refuse to align;
when you are gone and no longer in sight
and I no longer your face can imbue;
when your touch leaves and takes its flight,
then that’s when I’ll stop loving you.
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2020
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
trees tessellated
prismatic presentation ~
wizened eyes widen
(September Full Moon – Anishinaabe)
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2022
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
She sat by the fence,
the lamb struggling to reach her
for shared soft kisses.
A seven-year-old shy girl;
two souls in innocent love.
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2022
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
Now, the time has come for bawdy things
from no other than our queen of queens.
As she takes the throne,
the crowd emits a groan.
This, the reign of the Queen of Obscenes.
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2024
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
I dreamt of blue birds
and buzzing bumble bees.
I roamed with the bison herds,
prayed with mantis on our knees,
and butterflies in the breeze.
I greeted the cheery chickadees,
dragonflies, and snowy owls.
I marveled at graceful manatees.
raucous sounds of guinea fowls,
and warblers’ velvet vowels.
I raved at ravens
dancing on a fertile field.
Mice sought havens,
safe shelters that red ants build
in hopes from spiders to shield.
I spotted rain-drenched
autumn leaves in tapestries,
their beauty strangely entrenched.
Purple hues imbued in varying degrees,
of gladiolas and sweet peas.
So many perfect pleasures,
many another than these.
All of God’s treasures,
created with love to please,
arranged to calm my world with ease.
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2024
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
Memories are often deceiving
Yield to all the possibilities
Permanence is an illusion
Everything is in constant change
Reign in moments of confusion
Stretch your subconscious range
Ponder a new or different vision
Everything is in constant change
Constancy is key, not temporization
Tomorrow brings something strange
Incorporate and embrace intrusion
Venture an exhilarating exchange
Everything is in constant change
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2021
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Linda Alice Fowler Poem
Today is the first day of school
the summer too short at the pool
school days are long
this is so wrong
I think going to school isn’t cool
My father insists that I go
though I argued loud with a No
I squawk and squirm
I’m no bookworm
sure I know all there is to know
Dad threatened to kick me out
no matter my perfect pout
I’m no fool
went to school
now the classics I can spout
At university I excelled
never an instance was I expelled
got the knowledge
finished college
at graduation my Dad’s heart swelled
Copyright © Linda Alice Fowler | Year Posted 2022
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