Tag Archives: Miz Quickly

Quickly. Quickly now.

Posted on September 17, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. Tell the sky she’s bold and beautiful and vast and strong. Tell the ocean she’s got someplace else to go. Tell the world we’ve got a song to sing to all these spaces, broken places stitched together with ash … Continue reading →

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When I Found the Poem at the Center

Posted on August 3, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… , I played it in a scribble and a song. . You played along, and the sky took the shape ………………………………….(escape) of my brightest tears.     .. Playing around with yesterday’s words for Quickly.          … Continue reading →

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Later: rinse, repeat.

Posted on August 2, 2018 by whimsygizmo

This is the first part of an exercise for Miz Quickly. Later, I hope to refine it into something shorter, sharper.    .. I dreamed I wrote a poem in invisible ink. I dreamed I wrote a poem dot-to-dot, with … Continue reading →

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Mast (Mask) and Sail

Posted on July 31, 2018 by whimsygizmo

I dreamed I was more than moored, but less than Lake. That the shaking of these limbs (this breeze) was about more than trees (and less than song.) I dreamed I belonged to the sea, and that she gave me … Continue reading →

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Breaking Blue

Posted on March 23, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. See, here’s the thing: Shape-shifter, soul -drifter, wayward wandering gypsy skydragon. White wisp. You’ve got a thousand other places (things) to be, and I can see them all through cloudy eyes.   .. Prompted by Miz Q. Quickly.  

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suspended moment

Posted on March 16, 2017 by whimsygizmo

(a leaky bit of moonlight)   under a dark-haired driven threadbare quilted sky, driven bursts of clawing breath and the muted cry of unglazed small -boned crows dreaming murder, death – muffled blooms and fretful sleep.   .. Cool visual … Continue reading →

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Travels with Haircuts

Posted on March 2, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. She trims the tresses of the masses, shears near ears and hears the stories in all their long (and short) glory. Shaves miles, time. Runs with scissors.   .. Prompted by Miz Q. 

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downward

Posted on January 24, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. she dreams in spiraled clouds, candy spun of nothing-dreams. she seems a wayward soul, a lost girl in dragon skin. she’s begin -ning to believe in something, anything, this thing that is her own dark soul. she knows the … Continue reading →

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Schizophrenic Poem

Posted on January 21, 2017 by whimsygizmo

…. This poem has multiple personalities, a couple of voices you might want to (fear) hear. It can converse in verse and tone and tongues, say one thing or no thing or some thing else entirely. It’s (banana) split with … Continue reading →

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Candle

Posted on January 17, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. See it at center. We walk around it in concentric circles, wonder-wandering. Hear the tock; we are the clock, arrows pointed out -ward as it stands, anti-time. Sublime. You sketch it all you want. I shall paint only with … Continue reading →

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