Archive for July 2022
This Charming Night by Jen Curry
Calm content, completely spent. Descending deeply softly slowly down upon the mysterious mattress of careless air. Capricious clouds scatter no need to customarily count them like sheep sheading and shearing the days succulent thoughts. Free from drama and demons. Was late, past midnight. Hours slip away being much better than ok. All bait was left…
Read MoreI am in thought by Christine Kennedy
Instead of rushing through life I have taken on a new posture of time . I am meandering in a moment . How blissful it is . The peaceful moment of a moment . There is nothing, not a sound , just silence. I hear my heart beating , a need for a breathe which…
Read MoreSTANDING TALL by Annsofi Hjärtström
No muting No diminishing No blaming Of myself I did not let myself get dragged down into their dark hole of emptiness People with grey souls Cannot numb me anymore Cannot take my joy away Cannot suffocate me I am standing tall And proud Watching old patterns Fade away
Read MoreUNLIKELY PAIRINGS OF THE ZODIAC by Karen Marie Christa Minns
You were born a Tiger. It is reflected in your piercing, noble eyes. Your hair streams shades of fire: orange and gold, flashes of silver. Your muscles move with lightning power, graceful Dancer, killing my heart. Love I am the Monkey, born in a different year. Chatterer, comic, pulling your tail or ear. Always jumping…
Read MoreElevate And Heal by Kristi Kirby
The mother and Son Have a deep Love Mutual respect for One another Dynastic promise Taste the words Steadfast love Will never be Withdrawn Faith’s touch Is always Represented Feel the Frequency Elevate and Heal Every day.
Read MoreI am into popsicles dropped by Beth Haist
I am into Popsicles dropped I am into you Fun bright young screaming now I am in to you I am into chotskies Independent Radio Underground messages I am into you I am into Antique shopping Bull Riding I am into you What I don’t care for Words that sound The same- In and Out…
Read MoreWhen you appear by Fiona Goodwin
When You appear I will throw a lasso around your waist Kidnapping made legal An ethical way to not be alone When you appear I will be my charming est self It’s a magic trick You will never suspect The stringency of my demands So-called sensitivity Concealing The ‘ keep me safe“ law. When you…
Read MoreSound Bathing by Jen Curry
Baptized! by a babbling brook. flowing melodic chants. For summer’s … slender transparent souls. Dressed in apparitional white. Under thundering currents of rock and a hard life. Disappearing arrows fly. Like the speed of light wounded and grounded by vacuums and voids. Constellations roam in Van Gogh’s starry night skies. Reflecting in the mandala of…
Read MoreCorn Sweat by Laura Merritt
The fields lay beneath a haze conjured by thousands of living emerald stalks of maize. Yet green in the July heat. Respiring breathe in mosture to the flat broad leaves hanging still in the mid-day sun. In the breezeless air droplets steam and stiffle in the heat. Vaporizing. Hanging thick clouds shimmer in the distance…
Read MoreORDINARY MAGIC AFTER READING EMILY DICKINSON IN THESE BURNING DAYS by Karen Marie Christa Minns
You are clinging to Ordinary these days, You say. Foxgloves, butterflies, clouds and blue skies. The simplest ways. But Love, there is poison in blossoms, It can kill as well as cure. Soothing or stopping a Hungry heart. Creation’s confusing Art. Butterflies come from ravenous Worms, transformed by goo, emerging with Wings of all things!…
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