Tag Archives: sea

sonata scribbles to my someday self

Posted on November 12, 2022 by whimsygizmo

breathe, girl. you’re fine. the moon moats in her sky, and you (of also borrowed shine) can hang awhile longer, too.  breathe in these starsand mark them well, treble-tremble your fingersalong their sharpest notes.  whisper yourself some wings of feathered things,of flutter, stuttered syllables soaked in salt and … Continue reading →

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moon bare and blue

Posted on January 9, 2020 by whimsygizmo

magnetic poetry 

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Hey,

Posted on December 2, 2019 by whimsygizmo

won’t you spirit me away to moon or mountain or ocean sway, say that salt and sea are all we need? see, let’s just feel the breeze, squeeze ourselves into some smaller space, erase the fears. lace hands. scribble our … Continue reading →

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Sea

Posted on November 25, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… I’m not sure where …….the moon went, …but I think it might be ………………..my fault. I miss her. So please, ……forgive ..my salt.   .. Poem ketchuping.   

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That which she is of {tossed above}:

Posted on October 9, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. Beauty (perhaps) and light, and the fight of wind on skin. Pain slow -slammed into truth. Proof of second chances and first -blush glances turned to 20 years. Tears. Sky and moon and sun -burned tongues and languages she … 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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Red Sky

Posted on April 11, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… in mo(u)rning, we sing our sacred dawn-songs, allow the bell to toll for all we’ve lost. We’ve tossed and turned all night, held the world tight in trembling hands and too-full clouds with false linings. We’re pining for some … Continue reading →

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Perhaps She is the Thumbprint of Some Wayward Queen

Posted on January 31, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. You say to talk about her in a new way and I must tell you I am exhausted. She exhausts me. My nouns. My verbs. My inky veins. I have quilled her a thou -sand poems in paper sky, … Continue reading →

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like water for sky

Posted on January 8, 2018 by whimsygizmo

Casperson Beach, January 2018 .. the sky’s on fire and so’s her soul, so much foam and salt. she’ll leave a piece of her self here, take some peace home with her. be. still. ………..know.    

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{What Stayed Behind}

Posted on November 24, 2017 by whimsygizmo

Please remember me  when the sun goes down when the moon is round remember me. – The Reverend Horton Heat   . Remember her in moon -light, words spilled to sea. In the slight slant of sky that says rain … Continue reading →

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