Tag Archives: sky songs

how then shall we scale this sky?

Posted on November 23, 2020 by whimsygizmo

if you bend low, i can stand on your should-ers and stretch up up up on my tiptoes to reach Orion’s belt                     and fly.  ::written for poetic asides November chapbook challenge.

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tell me again about the dragons

Posted on November 21, 2020 by whimsygizmo

and their embered breath , scales scar-scraping the  sky. tell me of their kind-ling songs, the twisted  wrongs of talon, tongue. whisper me their battle -blazed cry, the sacred why of tinder hearts. sigh me the cindered center of their flame, that i might  … Continue reading →

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fairywren falling

Posted on November 8, 2020 by whimsygizmo

the sky is calling, so i wing my way                          up               up    up to say a few words to that lonely moon. now  waxing, Icarus fooling no one, melting into cloud cover and ebony’s small still voice. twitter-pated by stars,  dot-to-dot-chalk -trying to figure out where to begin.  but sometimes you just … Continue reading →

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while we wait

Posted on November 5, 2020 by whimsygizmo

pleasecome, sit with me for awhile  and try to let your hate be ruined by this vast forgiving sky.  written for poetic asides November chapbook challenge

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purple diamond delirious

Posted on September 21, 2020 by whimsygizmo

Quadrille #2. Come play! Play magnetic poetry here.     

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Borrowed Light

Posted on September 21, 2020 by whimsygizmo

Even  After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky. ― Hafiz  .. … We wonder if we’ll ever get the hang of … Continue reading →

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bitter sky

Posted on September 15, 2020 by whimsygizmo

Play magnetic poetry here.

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Eve’s Dropping

Posted on September 8, 2020 by whimsygizmo

And that full fierce moon is rising again, untying again, setting herself loose, a balloon unstringed. She’s got a whole new helium-heck of hallowed …………………..(waning) reasons why , and those trees are setting their limbs for (l)eavesdropping, finding new space … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 2, 2020 by whimsygizmo

whether we write, or knot (daisy-chained phrase) we tie ourselves to moontoo soon, to storm too late. we debate ink over ocean swell. we tell ourselves the words won’t swim, fair-weathered whim will ragequit in mid-line.  we find ourselves a-dangle, participles waning. verbs complaining, tangled in theirown bright … Continue reading →

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a clean slate, with your own face on

Posted on August 18, 2020 by whimsygizmo

, you find yourself indigo -clad and clapping like thunder, a blur of turquoise tutu and treehouse battle scars. the earth underfoot is a song, a sigh, a silence. the sky’s got both wings and teeth, a dragon -fly in … Continue reading →

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