The Unfinished Like flags at half mastKnow this position won’t lastFor change comes on steady blowsWhen the hours fill fastAnd grief slips slowly into pastAnd strength to rise up grows On darkened mornings in rough seesThe writer learns to know her abilitiesAnd fear takes the plank then does a diveThe words are generous with their… Continue reading Poem 334 – The Unfinished
Poem 332 & 333 PLUS Reading tomorrow night!
Poem 332 - Why I Forgot to Write Yesterday's Poem Why I Forgot to Write Yesterday’s Poem it was Carlos’* faultI opened his bookstarted reading & got suckedinto his labyrinthone hundred pageslater & night waspulling its star-studdedquilt over the skymy eyes succumbedto closing all rememberings for poetryfolded into his storyit was Carlos’ fault& he’ll make forgetagain – I… Continue reading Poem 332 & 333 PLUS Reading tomorrow night!
Poem 331 – At The Cottage Monoku
At The Cottage Monoku time sloths, sofa orbits planet pause: outside it snows streaks
Poem 330 – At 3 O’Clock
At 3 o’clock, for Karen M. the walls tumble down & the voices turn arachnidexisting webs of worry moisten with the heat of losing focusthe ‘be in the moment’ ability turns terminal come fifteen hundred hoursso the drive home in the vehicle filled with teens is a travel througha kind of hell through the pot-holed… Continue reading Poem 330 – At 3 O’Clock
VANESSA SHIELDS 