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Tag Archives: wishes
eyelash flutter
we huff and puff and blow dandelion fluff from here to kingdom come. go ahead, rub the genie’s lamp. rub the buddha’s belly. catch that copper penny fountain scent right between your teeth. we are salt-over-shoulder safe, falling for nothing. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #aprpad, #inaprilwepoem, April PAD 2020, april poems, buddha, candles, copper pennies, dandelion poems, fountains, genie, stars, unfallen stars, wishes, wishful poeming, wishing stars
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Pouring hope from tea leaves
, we wish upon whatever we can scrounge: these shattered stars, the kitefluff of a drunken dandelion sun and one last candle’s kiss. It tastes like copper -penny fountains and a stolen horseshoe score, a broken silver skystone all aquiver … Continue reading
Posted in moon poems, Quadrille
Tagged candles, copper pennies, horseshoes, luck, make a wish, moon poems, moon stones, Q44, Quadrille, quiver, sky songs, skystone, stars, wishes
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Dandelion Fluff
.. They say size doesn’t matter and then they say dream big, but I prefer these tiny breaths and the way the breeze teases my heart into flight. You blink at all that sacred spotlight; I think I’ll save myself … Continue reading
Posted in dragon poems, poetic asides poems
Tagged dandelion poems, dragons, dreams, here there be dragons, Poetic Asides, wishes
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the quiet keening of smallish stones
.. we throw them in as wishes, just to see some change in the surface of things, just to watch the ripples rise. we revel in their displacement, the way they sway the river’s path, make bur -bled song of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged #amwriting, #aprpad, April PAD 2018, glass houses, small stones, stones, throwing stones, wishes
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copper penny fountains {in which she finally uses all the words to describe something other than the moon}
… With storm breath and flickered fear, we open journey-jars, spill-skip dream -coins into bubbled shadows. Dance a wish, lull-curl-whispered across spring-surface. The echo-sound’s a cued breeze, melted shimmer-grin-ghost. A boast-giggle, drizzled-green dawn. The twist leaves sparks, still-twisted scars that … Continue reading
Messy Rows
.. They waddle along, two by two as if they are headed for the ark (that of the Noah persuasion), and not just this arc of water, this fountain full of rusting pennies, drowning wishes. We watch them go, count … Continue reading
Posted in twiglets
Tagged ducks, ducks in a row, even and odd, fountains, many ducks messy rows, Noah's ark, pennies, wishes
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signaling the stars
.. there’s a dot-to-dot dash bash going on in the sky, a morse-code cue that you and i are now free to shine. look: a wish that’s burned right on straight through; a small soft mantra of me-and-you that means … Continue reading
Posted in Quadrille
Tagged cue, dot and dash, dot to dot, Morse Code, Q44, Quadrille, stars, wishes
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The Inevitable Pull of Coinless Fountains
If I’m made in Your image, why is it I see so little of You, and so much of me? – Question from the Girl in the Mirror, De Jackson 2010 .. As if hope were an echo or … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged broken and beautiful, broken hallelujah, coins, dandelion poems, dVerse poems, falling stars, hope, Poetics, sunrise, wishes
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I was just making a wish. I swear.
… Have I somehow stunned …f a r e w e l l into this sky with stars? You’ve waved, as though this breeze might carry you away. If I simply spill … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged accidental goodbye, dVerse, falling stars, farewell, Poetics, stars, wishes
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