Curious Incident with the Mirror Last Night I like the way I look when I’m wearing a tank top & I’m sitting on the edge of the single bed in front of the mirror & I put my hands behind my headthe way my armpit hair stands up & yells I'm so long & lush… Continue reading Poem 293 – Curious Incident with the Mirror Last Night
Poem 292 – Three More Words & Poetry at the Manor Tonight!
Three more words for Robin In the eye of her stormsLove Because she is resilientBecause she is fireBecause she is strongBecause she is earthBecause she is capableBecause she is windBecause she is powerfulBecause she is water She is all the weather & the landscape it kissesBecause she knows the wrath of pain & the bodies… Continue reading Poem 292 – Three More Words & Poetry at the Manor Tonight!
Poem 291 – The Ordinary & Last Day to Register for ‘Harvesting Time’ Virtual Workshop
The Ordinary It is truethese ordinary thingsthe desk lampthe folding tablethe mismatched cutleryheave home into my every day I may not take them with mebut their constant being gives me comfort These ordinary things…the brown roofthe molting porchthe tired front doorembrace me like shared skinit is true The extra in ordinary is the way itholds… Continue reading Poem 291 – The Ordinary & Last Day to Register for ‘Harvesting Time’ Virtual Workshop
Poem 289 & 290 – The Curve & Three Words
The Curve sometimes a safe spaceis in the curve of a silent smile it is not a room or a tower it is in the tangible serenity of shared communityunmeasurable – uncomplicatedbasking beyond language it is good hereto be held this way Three words - For Jim Did you know that pumpernickel translates in German… Continue reading Poem 289 & 290 – The Curve & Three Words
VANESSA SHIELDS 