Tag Archives: Poets United

Swatches

Posted on September 23, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. Give us your poor, your proud, your purplest mountains and most amber shades of day. Give us your periwinkle, puce, your silver-gray, longing to be free, and framed. Brush my skin in 47 hues of brightest boldest mutest blue, … Continue reading →

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lullaby for a slow moon rising

Posted on September 18, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. humbleblow her something low and slow, some still small song meant to whisper soft across milky skin. our intricate voices are woven strong, adagio strains fingerstrung by ………………..stars. it’s ours, this sky. this swollen lullaby that slumbersails through ebony … Continue reading →

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Spillways

Posted on September 3, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. Take me down to the river, we say and we mean we want to be washed clean, freed from all this pain and salt and shame. Un -stain us from these words we’ve said, these lies we’ve spread, these … Continue reading →

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this poem got up on the wrong side of the bed

Posted on August 26, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. this poem is a lost soul, waiting to be chased; a loose tongue that can not erase the things it’s said. this poem wanted to be in -digo, until i stained it slightly unblushed pink. i think it’s mad, … Continue reading →

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f l u f f

Posted on May 29, 2015 by whimsygizmo

    written for poets united motif.

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Pursuits

Posted on May 20, 2015 by whimsygizmo

  Written for Poets United.

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Let’s Make Waves

Posted on May 13, 2015 by whimsygizmo

. and a hundred other things worth more than money: love, a wish, amends, be ……………….-lieve. Let’s break some laws – gravity and others, ……..averages and Murphy and his friends. Let’s throw something besides these tired stones; a party, maybe … Continue reading →

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