Lilacs I remember that lilacs enfolded the night in a soft June kiss, a never-never land of love in a candy store. They floated like clouds of stingless bees in mesmeric rivers of honey around your tender face. There was a sound like water falling or clusters of little bells or birds about to […]
Poetry
30 April 2019 | National Poetry Month WebPoetrySlam
Woman roar I am woman and you will hear me roar My thunder won’t be overlooked no more I have given you chance enough I have given you opportunity enough I have given you time enough But you refuse to open your eyes Refuse to identify a Queen for what she is A […]
29 April 2019 | National Poetry Month WebPoetrySlam
Stewing Onions sliced potatoes diced into the caldron of my mind. Bitter resentment knowing my time is your time: Cooking time. cleaning time. Who are the great artists, writers? Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Picasso, Shakespeare, Lao Zu. Then there were the Eliots: T.S. and George, and the Emilys: Dickinson and Bronte. […]
28 April 2019 | National Poetry Month WebPoetrySlam
Fair Air Summer morning ritual unseal the house gather chilled dawning air As if I could store it, harbor it to fight a Bakersfield afternoon. As if it would stay, soothe us when the sun’s rays bullet through double-paned windows. As if dust motes and particulates dominant in this toxic air could be quelled […]
27 April 2019 | National Poetry Month WebPoetrySlam
Final Honor It is time to lay this soldier to rest. In somber silence the path is traveled. Comrades offer a crisp salute as they line the way. The repeated crack of rifles, spent shells flying; a bugle’s mournful song. The folded flag, presented, and another hero is gone from our sight, laid to rest […]