Monthly Archives: November 2024

Celebration of Life

Posted on November 28, 2024 by whimsygizmo

We call it thatas we hug and laugh and talk a r o u n d the reason we’re all here. His photo up front (too young, too young) a row of grown boys fighting back tears. We’d rather be anywhere else but we gather in quiet circles,clasp … Continue reading →

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let’s celebrate this cobalt sky

Posted on November 28, 2024 by whimsygizmo

our outstretched handsthe simple joys of this quiet place , the wonder of each other a gratitude of grace. ::PAD, day 28.

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love looks like this

Posted on November 28, 2024 by whimsygizmo

a kiss goodbye,the woo of moon. the clouds carrying you home. PAD, day 27. This is a remix/abbreviation of my poem from day 5.

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breathing fire

Posted on November 26, 2024 by whimsygizmo

watch out, she’s got a pen-chant for wielding words as spells, gasping grief to sky. here a cloud, there a star. the borrowedlight of moon, a sherbet scoop of sun. these incantations swell on embered breath, hold life and death in grasp of flame. gulp worlds. pull sacred … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Asides November Chapbook Challenge 2024 | Tagged cobbled stories, death, embered breath, fire poems, grief, skyfire | 2 Comments

Fire & Ice

Posted on November 26, 2024 by whimsygizmo

kindling let’s build it from the tallest branches, tree’s broken bones. we’ll stoke it slow withtiny poems, sky -fire and other things worth breathing. :: a freeze of days everything is gray, as if the sky’s got nothing left to say. ::PAD, day 26.

Posted in Poetic Asides November Chapbook Challenge 2024 | Tagged breathing fire, breathing sky, fire and ice, fire poems, here there be dragons, ice poems, tiny poems | 2 Comments

this poem

Posted on November 25, 2024 by whimsygizmo

she’s the breeze in those trees, the whisper of wind on wood. the good good hum of wings. the pebbled stream. the stretch of sky, and all spells bound between. you could hold her against your heart to hear her thrum, or burn her to keep warm. {by … Continue reading →

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if you follow the path

Posted on November 24, 2024 by whimsygizmo

(these breadcrumbs, your heart) , there’s a place at the start of the trail where you can feel the breeze on your skin,begin again. if you ask the moonshe’ll bid you not to quit too soon; the only way out is through. if you sing … Continue reading →

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if you stay

Posted on November 24, 2024 by whimsygizmo

(rewinding time, for Hay) , we’ll sit and talk awhile.i can show you the moon. we’ll find your smile. your dad can breathe,your mom won’t grieve. our aching hearts will go away. but onlyif you’ll stay. ::PAD, day 24.

Posted in Poetic Asides November Chapbook Challenge 2024 | Tagged 8 weeks, grief, Hayden, poems for Hayden | 3 Comments

{Pin this to the tallest oak.}

Posted on November 23, 2024 by whimsygizmo

This poem is a WANTED poster for a wayward rhyme, an elusive slice of time to stay and play with all the pretty words (and horses). It’s a plea for peace,a picking up of pieces after storm. A warm em-brace of softer syllables and a quiet space … Continue reading →