Haiku for Flower fuchsia petals hangsome stand like legs poised to dancethe fall is graceful It's Friday! That week flew by like a flock of hungry geese. Did it feel fast to you as well? My eyes are heavy and my limbs are tight with wanting to sleep. But, here we go. Into another day!… Continue reading Poem 127 – Haiku for Flower
Poem 126 – Ghazal on Isolation
Ghazal on Isolation“…continue the shine in vivid isolation…” Agha Shahid Ali another dawn tugs on my skinbegging me awake in birdsong my cold shoulder longsfor the tongue of yesterday’s chorus – the extended version of a ballad I didn’t know could endghostly alive in such vivid isolation my mind is a silk slip on a… Continue reading Poem 126 – Ghazal on Isolation
Poem 125 – Go At It Gannet
Go At It Gannet “…I found my book White Magic in the cadavers of abandoned drafts, and I resurrected them…” from ‘The Craft of Writing’ by Elissa Washuta, LitHub, May 4, 2021 I must go at it gannet: increase my courage force exponentiallyrage lovingly at the white-sea page before diving into itsubjecting myself to the enormous… Continue reading Poem 125 – Go At It Gannet
VANESSA SHIELDS 