_______________ I want poetry to be my mother to be something I can count on I want it to know its loving firmness and learn the difference between right and wrong _______________ I want poetry to be happy to be what it is confident poetry that shares what it knows and isn’t afraid to disagree [...]
I look up words like a single woman reads want-ads looking for an eligible bachelor as though my poem were a lover looking for a partner and I was a matchmaker setting up a date ________________________ More dVerse poets HERE.
Crepe-myrtle is summer’s answer to lilacs in the spring happy girls with red berry pom poms shaking in the breeze while ironweed purple and goldenrod yellow in September school colors play the field _______________ More dVerse Open Link poetry HERE.
________________ High-pitched crickets drone like a phone off the hook. Waking from a dream, I ask, “Won’t somebody please hang it up?” ~ Colleen Redman ________________ More dVerse Poets Open Link Night poetry HERE.
The Moon gets top billing in a black tie night In a star studded ballroom it shines a high note of light
Cat’s bowl of cream tips into the night light soaked stars track light
_______________ Does Jasmine fear the sound of thunder from the grave? Does she care that a wild rabbit is living under the porch and nobody’s here to bark? _______________ Is my brother Dan who died too sick for the liver transplant list still mad at our brother who lies to our mother and she believes [...]
I want to write a poem that doesn’t feel like homework or look like a grocery list/one I can float down the river for my friend Mara’s birthday and trust it knows its way to the ocean ~ From The Cheap Therapy Poem You’ve heard of patty cakes? My poet friend Mara had poet cakes [...]
__________________ I want to write a poem that doesn’t feel like homework or look like a grocery list ________________ one I can float down the river for my friend Mara’s birthday and trust that it knows its way to the ocean _________________ I want to write a poem that earns its own paycheck and doesn’t [...]
Bare bulb dangles from night’s dark ceiling Suspects give up secrets Lovers steal looks
A golden coin with light to spend burns a hole in night’s dark pocket
__________ Leave me alone to press my thoughts like rare flowers in an hardcover book __________ Give me time to write the lyrics to the melody of morning to pray on a rosary of silence __________ I need to measure each day by the stretch of light and shadow see the moon as a bowl [...]
___________________ If you are quiet be loud If you are loud be quiet ___________________ Don’t laugh if you don’t get the joke Don’t cheat Wear red _____________________ If you are generous be frugal If you are frugal be generous ___________________ Give away all your poor fitting clothes Give up your place in line ___________________ It’s [...]
A soggy lament weeps in drips melting ghosts and sugarcoats exposing every telltale line and wasted time that pools like soured Christmas cream drowns me in clichés and sorrow __________ Short days crimp cramp my limbs wind kicks loose the gloss of December clouds hang over nagging dreams shamed by glaring sun __________ I’ve taken [...]
From a luscious scoop of moon at the milky way counter the stars have spilled over in an icy cold night _________________________ Note: The above photo was taken on Wednesday in Roanoke 12/15/2010.
Cornucopia moon Filling with light Feast on the stars of November
Consonants are the carbohydrates that give language bulk Vowels are like proteins needed in every sentence We burn up verbs and nouns stick to our ribs Adjectives and adverbs add flavor
Waves of oak and poplar An ocean of October A million paper ships set sail in a race to beat November ~ Colleen Redman
