Tag Archives: songs of myself

something more than someday, too.

Posted on October 3, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. she’s doing it again; layering her skin with doubt and promise, polishing the way she says I’m fine when she means to scream. she’s counting all the clicks and the tics and the tocks and the way that the … Continue reading →

Posted in moon poems | Tagged sigh, significant skin, smudge, songs of myself, still talking about the moon, tomorrow, waxing and waning, {talking to myself again} | 1 Comment

the girl hates bios, mirrors. loves the sky.

Posted on April 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… she is sans serif 10-point type, often italicized never bold. she is onion paper see-through skin. easily erased, truth untold. she’s scribbled whim and ellipsis salt, ridiculous blessings, cacophonous grace. she’s words in margins, indigo fire. moon swallowed, sunset … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bio, garden with toads prompts, indigo, ink, onion poems, rough draft, sans serif, sky songs, songs of myself, Words Count | 14 Comments

17 American Sentences (that may or may not make sense)

Posted on April 27, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. When it comes to grocery shopping, I’m a bona fied full-cart girl. Poetically, not so much: give me 12 items or less, some space, please. Wordy drawn-out sentences present me in southern drawl, chaos crawl. Whitman had his leaves, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American sentence poems, Leaves of Grass, long lines, NaPoWriMo 2016, songs of myself, Whitman | 3 Comments

Finders Keep-Hers

Posted on April 24, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. She is covered in in(k)visible skin, a mask (her aid) of moonspill and mermaid fin, a small puddle of color -full string. Just apply a little lemon juice and see-water, loose your pen and grab your secret decode-her ………..ring. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged April PAD 2016, decoder ring, ink-visible, invisible girl, Poetic Asides prompts, secrets, shawna will like this too, songs of myself | 1 Comment

Kenning Me Softly

Posted on April 24, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Have you met her? She’s a mess -age of murmurmoan, an ink(trovert) blot caught on a cure-ious spinstring, a gypsygonegirl (nevermore) moon(mer)maid of de -versity. She’s paid only in breeze-sigh whisperwhy and skysong spare change. But give her a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged coined words and phrases, garden with toads prompts, kenning, loves me loves me not, nevermore, phraseology, Poe, poe-humming, poeming, shawna will also relate, sky songs, songs of myself | 12 Comments

Sonnet for Swallowed Sorrow

Posted on April 23, 2016 by whimsygizmo

All that glisters in not gold. – Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice . Why dress myself in shadow, shade and haze as the sun glimmers through a broken sky? Why hold the moon aloft on tongue for days, just … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Merchant of Venice quotes, moon, NaPoWriMo 2016, Shakepearean sonnet, Shakespeare quotes, songs of myself, sonnets, swallowed sorrow | 3 Comments

Braiding her own names into a strange new song

Posted on April 10, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. As the day takes its final breath, Persephone puts on pants, quirky girl under a paper doll moon, sleepwalking through slivers of limbs, and liquid skin. (We are) string theory sugar spun star sisters shouting yes to no one … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged braiding, cento, cento of my own poems, crazy April, garden with toads prompts, poem titles, songs of myself | 13 Comments

Observations of a Lunatic

Posted on October 14, 2015 by whimsygizmo

… What’s the world got ……against in -sanity? We watch that lonely moon dance ,,,,,,,,,,,partner -less all the way across the sky, and wonder why she wanes. Explain for me, please, the whisper of the breeze – the things it … Continue reading →