jan 28 2020 #poetry #healing #metoo #micropoetry #vss

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I shatter assumptions
in one single blow
of my bubble gum

I breathe lightning bolts
and cry tears of the sun

my hopes are hidden
in amongst memory’s
forgotten songs

rage tattoos my skin
in constellations
of star patterns
that ignite
the night sky
into a thousand
worn sins

 

dawn tickles the horizon #micropoetry #mpy #vss

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dawn tickles the horizon
darkness slinks away
sunrays smile
mist nourishes
dew laden fields
pheasant calls to its mate

Turkish coffee and backgammon #vss #veryshortstory

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Once… years ago in Greece

I met a sweet old man

who was exiled from his home in Cyprus

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over strong Turkish coffee

and cheap Greek cigarettes

we played backgammon into the night

and talked through the ages of our lives

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he admired my Egyptian ankh

so I gave it to him

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he told me to not come back to see him again

until I was married

and to bring my husband and my children to meet him

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so I never did

cosmic melody #micropoetry #vss

stars spiral

singing the sky alive

drinking in sunbeams

bouncing off the moon

cosmic melody

©Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon

#mpy #vss  image by mark jenks

#COP21 #haiku #micropoetry #climatechange #vss #mpy

careless cries

can’t protect

polluted skies

from salacious sighs

acid rain

rising waters

useless tears

to government’s deaf ears

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so the deal is done +3 means climate crisis with #COP21

©Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon

#haiku #micropoetry #climatechange #vss #mpy

the wind blows #micropoetry #vss

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the wind blows strongly

I hear its calls

the snow falls

changes are coming

my people are drumming

©Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon

darkness steals into the room #vss #micropoetry

darkness steals into the room

on a mission

to swallow grandfather sun

an old friend

come to share tea

over winter longings

©Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon

I remember as a kid… #vss #poetry #mpy #herstory

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I remember as a kid…

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in a car

up a mountain

looking down at the city

like jewels of offering

on a plate of night

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laying on the grass

looking up at clouds

wondering what would have happened

if I hadn’t been born

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long, cold rainy nights

waiting in the car

outside the legion

time laughed wickedly

in unison with the drunks

at the windows

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eating the best smoked fish

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climbing tree branches

my ladder to freedom

like a dog at my feet

loyal to the acrid end

when I had to descend

and go back to

the homeless home

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building dams in the creek

water spiders skated free

showing me I could be

…

minnows nibbled toes

water spoke to me

of a future

unknown

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my dog

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the land

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these were the gossamer filaments

that held the childhood, helter-skelter world

of dark nights

and loose balloons

together

seagulls bring me sea salt on wings #micropoetry

at fresh water pond

seagulls fly in – bringing me

sea salt on their wings

#haiku #micropoetry #vss

longing and belonging collide #mpy #vss #micropoetry

ages and

moments pass

mountains whisper

sentinel silences dwell

in the space amid two people

where longing and belonging collide

pressed flowers poem #mpy #vss #micropoetry

pressed flowers in an old book fall to the floor

long forgotten bookmarks of the mortal coil

fading relics of simpler times

a breeze blows them away with a sigh

scattering them upon enticing winds

along with feeble hopes and whims

#mpy #vss #micrpoetry

let our passions blaze

scintillating across night skies

until they burn out in a spectacular burst

of the light of a thousand suns

leaving us breathless

spent

but ready to love again

I dream in coastal rainforest green #mpy #poetry #micropoetry #vss

I dream in coastal rainforest green
lush moss carpeted scene
salt air on my tongue
secrets hidden from the sun

eternal watercolour dream #mpy #vss #micropoetry

reflections upon reflections
of internal thoughts
insights flow
hope floats
in an eternal watercolour dream