Morning Poem Snippets
Posted on | October 3, 2006 |
Until I catch up with my life again, a handful of snippets will have to do. Here are a few unedited lines that surfaced in the midst of my morning poem chaff over the past few days.
I am so inspired by your lists of life-altering artists, writers, etc. I want to compile them into a sidebar feature–with links to all your amazing blogs. Thank you for filling me up with new places to look for wonder, for solace, for joy, for sustainance. I spent the evening in a bookstore, with a stack of books about two feet high. So good.
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We twirl gradually towards better days, our knees scraped,
our hearts drenched in the honey of love.
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The moon bright and white, caught in the corner of the window
like a lone daisy petal or a wedge of chalk.
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Night comes too soon after sunrise now.
The days, turning towards winter, have me stumbling again
towards the center in me.
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Like a pale china bowl, upturned overhead
the sky is glazed pink and shades of lavender.
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Tree silhouettes are becoming sharp, crowns of twigs
amidst a hillside of fire.
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Its hunting season again. Bucks rake their antlers
across the sky in anguish. Stars scatter earthwards, becoming dew.
Fawns, full grown but knowing nothing of mistrust, lurch to their knees
red blood spilling onto the brittle end-of-summer grass.
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October 4th, 2006 @ 8:27 am
Your snippets are mind-bendingly wonderful.
(And the new site is up!) (yay!)
October 4th, 2006 @ 5:28 pm
delicious snippets…they filled me up…
i love yesterday’s idea so much that i’m going to write a post about each of the names i gave you in the comments yesterday…i think that will be a great way for me to pay tribute to them for touching my life in such a mighty way…
October 4th, 2006 @ 5:43 pm
your little snippets are better than just abuot anyone else’s whole posts.
October 5th, 2006 @ 12:48 pm
I love your snippets — and thank you for inspiration.