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Judith Ritter Leigh Poem
Because it's said of some sweet spice
A sly and wise old cook Ma Nature
Slipped into their feathery brew
While you and I, big-brained creatures
That we are – clumsy fools
Ignore cell signals
Breaking each others hearts
And holy rules, breaking each other’s
Wings and dreams of flight
Instinct informs these poets of the air
The gift of flight encoded in their genes
They find each other – rare attracting rare.
Copyright © Judith Ritter Leigh | Year Posted 2005
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Judith Ritter Leigh Poem
My tongue sings
In my head
Like a snow goose
Flying south
What used to be
An iceberg
Is melting in
My mouth
A faint green fur
Grows on my breath
Bones breaking
From my flesh
Are stems
Becoming flowers
Copyright © Judith Ritter Leigh | Year Posted 2005
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Judith Ritter Leigh Poem
(New Year’s Eve, 2000)
The world holds a collective breath
The specter of Y2K looms
Darkly on the western horizon
Like a fabled tsunami
Rolling all the way from Japan
Stock markets crash
Free falling
The economy
Plummets
Through time and space
To meet the future
Hate crime is on the rise
Promising to become a Holy War
An oily filth clings to
The underside of clouds—
Godzilla’s breath?
Copyright © Judith Ritter Leigh | Year Posted 2005
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Judith Ritter Leigh Poem
Even death loves you.
See how you glow.
As if you may have
Captured from this world
A small piece of eternity—
Stitched into the embroidered
Edge of the silky dress
They’ve laid you out in.
Tiny heels, too—
A special request
So that you will be held
In the arms of Heaven
And dance among the stars.
Copyright © Judith Ritter Leigh | Year Posted 2005
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