Boomerang This particular fearis a boomerang I’ve thrown herwith all my might bid her good riddancewilled her to Mars yet she persistspropulsions a return so graceful & spectacularlystunning I mistake her for awe welcome herin an embrace when she settlesI feel her grip & understand my faultmy power shrinks This particular fearis a boomerang will… Continue reading Poem 130 – Boomerang & This Week’s Virtual Tour Events
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Poem 128 – Booty Elegy & Thimbles Book Tour Events
Booty Elegy Since birth round & plumpProud skin hills for shakingHands did cup said rump& squeezed in ecstasy’s quaking Weight loss gradually strainsOf the padonkadonk storyOnly the padonk remainsGoodbye big booty glory New muscles tight & seriousA curious shape holds spacebut(t) still can dance deliriousAny time any… Continue reading Poem 128 – Booty Elegy & Thimbles Book Tour Events
Poem 127 – Haiku for Flower
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
VANESSA SHIELDS 