Tag Archives: dragons

Dragon Squall

Posted on October 9, 2018 by whimsygizmo

She tumbles until she has nothing left but the rise and fall of sky as breath , and a mouth scarred thick with stories.   .. .. twiglets #97.     

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This is one for the loony bin.

Posted on September 25, 2018 by whimsygizmo

Image from Wikipedia.    .. This poem is just one or two steps shy of everything I might want to be. I’ve added stars and salt and sea and sigh -lence and the violet violence of one last sunset. Yet, it … Continue reading →

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Dandelion Fluff

Posted on September 12, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. They say size doesn’t matter and then they say dream big, but I prefer these tiny breaths and the way the breeze teases my heart into flight. You blink at all that sacred spotlight; I think I’ll save myself … Continue reading →

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That I Might (Not) Be a Trochee,

Posted on April 24, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. I am wearing my most significant scales, an anti …………{love} -poem, unformed. A snap -dragon(fly). An elm. The helm of a whispered ship, …………………..a tintype moon. Soon, you will see that I cannot stop the quiet casings of these … Continue reading →

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Tiny Dragons and Gathered Lightning

Posted on April 13, 2018 by whimsygizmo

Dragonflies We can forgive them their lack of talons and fire for the sake of those stained glass window wings , and the way their damsels (in distress, in bright blue dress) flit and fly on by, rescued by the … Continue reading →

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as it turns out,

Posted on January 29, 2018 by whimsygizmo

  … we are smallish dragons, wayward songs, tiny poems waiting to be caught …….{fought, taught} by the tail, flailed in storms.     ..

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves, In Order {To Stay}

Posted on November 28, 2017 by whimsygizmo

Love bites, love bleeds. – Def Leppard . We say we might flee. That these bleak skies are too much. That we might touch peace again if only we leave. We say we might be better apart. That the stilted … Continue reading →

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Stranger than Dragons

Posted on November 15, 2017 by whimsygizmo

A short-term effect an echo and a stranger’s hand – The Cure .. The clouds have teeth again, and the echo …………(echo, echo) of skin and talons on whale-sized bones. They breathe in great fire hands that reach for nothing … Continue reading →

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Objects in the Rearview Mirror are Farther Than they Appear.

Posted on November 1, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. This poem is a brand new day, the quiet silver buttoning of my lips. It’s the scribbling of my heart. The starting of something startling, the plowing of inky crow through fresh fallen paper snow. This poem knows her … Continue reading →

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Dragon Moon

Posted on June 1, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. She’s a white curl snarl of bright stone, shone in fire and song. We watch her tail turn black, wane smudge into this talon-punctured scrim. She swims across the inky ocean, curved into her own dark flank. She’s listening … Continue reading →

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