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Tag Archives: stars
True North and Other Quiet Lies
The compass says we’re therebut I still feel the pull of something greater, some crater in my soul that says we’ve got a ways to go. We wake. We give. We grieve. We take. We’re born. We mourn all those livesthat could be ours. And we … Continue reading
Posted in November Chapbook 2022
Tagged compass, give and take, grieve, lies, stars, true north, Truth
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Struggling with Stars
We’ve already stuffed our pockets, see? And still there are shards spilling loose into this infinite sky, a crown of fire and ice between you and I. :: Busy day with not much time to play. But in November, we poem.
Posted in November Chapbook 2022
Tagged infinite sky, pockets full of stars, stars, struggle
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truer than north, yet un
so we’ve gone whatcha might call a fur piece before we realize we’re following the wrong star. this one’s fallen, see, and we didn’t notice the shards or the backwards breezeor the way the trees were trying all this time to warn … Continue reading
Posted in November Chapbook 2022
Tagged dots and dashes, north star, November 2022, Orion, Road Trips, stars, true north
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last call for a wayward moon
Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…– The Sound of Music Closing time, every new beginningcomes from some other beginning’s end.– Semisonic :: she orders a whiskey, neat(there’s enough that’s on the rocks)and floats alone … Continue reading
Posted in November Chapbook 2022
Tagged last call, moon poems, moon stones, night sky, November Chapbook 2022, Orion, stars, too much is broken
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night shift
the stars are clocking inagain, twinkled noses setto grindstones. wishingmoments. filing awaythe hours. bathed in shine,we praise the darknessfull of shadowedsecretsand other unquietmatters of the heart. that swollen misfit moon,a work of art. ::I’m late to the party for this … Continue reading
Happily, Ever
They are still unshod, by god-mother. (These wayward Wildling rebel-rogue princesses.) Barefoot loose and fancy only in their own daisy-chained glee. Nobody’s waiting to be saved. No-body’s even shaved in weeks and weeks. It’s all grown wild, like weedsand flowers, ivy. Stars. Some days, they … Continue reading
i sing
, and the blood zings and every metacarpaled thing points to that bony moon. you find me here at the center of the spill and you say “these limbs don’t sway the way they used to” and the trees agree. i wanted … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo
Tagged body poems, I Sing the Body Electric, NaPoWriMo 2022, skies, spring, stars
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Orion finds another love poem in his belt loop
The three sisters have placed it there, fighting over him again. Good heavens, but he’s confuzzled, puzzled by all this shine. Tomorrow they will Braille him sweet nothings in the stars; stitch hima swooning moon of Venus, a Valentine of Mars. Ursa (major, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged April PAD 2021, love notes, love poems, Orion, orion's belt, stars, three sisters
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Act I
Enter stage left: that fat and sassy moon, the swoon of sky. A scrim of stars, tossed like pixie dust. PAD Challenge, day 4.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged April PAD 2021, moon, poems written with a headache, stars
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Borrowed Light
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
Posted in Quadrille
Tagged dVerse poems, moon, moonstones, Q44, Quadrille, sky, sky poems, sky songs, stars
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