Flowers vol. 2

Can’t you feel the magic?
The air is alive.
Your hand is in mine, feel the electricity rise.
I’ve spent the last year tightrope walking for you in my dreams.
I’ve been talking to the flowers again. (You know how I do that.)
They whisper I got it right this time.
I find you in the hand knitted pieces of the sky.
You’re always there when I don’t even try.
You’re liquid sunshine.
I find you in every silver lining.
You arrive right on time.
I wish I could bottle this feeling.
Maybe I could just watch my heart healing.
Because I can’t forget you.
You’re engraved on my heart.
All days move exactly the same.
You encompass my brain.
It’s a silent refrain.
I sat still in an ever moving world.
I watched everything around me turn to rust.
I watched the flowers in the vase turn to dust.
I pressed down and left my fingertips on your heart.
I just want you to remember me.
Lately I hope that the memory of the warmth of your heart can’t be lost to time.
I wanna be where you are.
Because I know somewhere you’re mine.
Across the oceans or maybe in another timeline.
There is no way we don’t work when I know your hand fits perfectly in mine
She’s the music in the movie without her it just doesn’t make sense
Because when the book finds its end she is where we begin.

Anxiety

Making them shorter doesn’t
make them any easier. The panic

rises heavy handed. Sorrow
so deep my chest aches brings

out memory, the flashes.
Nothing to do but breathe.
Nowhere to go but through.
Medication can only carry me

to my crystalline end. I will
shatter to slate. I will shatter
again to pebbles. My veins
run with ice and glass, my heart
banging on the door to my ribs
screaming to be let loose.
Breathe and release.
My skull is a metaphor.

Hour 18 “The ultimate conversation won’t start with words.” Kathaleen Donnelly

It won’t begin in dialect song or verse

only in action.

Our hugged embrace,

kisses on cheeks,

sparkles caught inside one another’s eyes

smiles across our faces

burning sensations

we call butterflies.

Tears will mix with laughter

sweat while it is bitter cold,

frost in a heat wave

instrumental music without lyrics,

gestures radiate it is safe.

Everything else can be left on paper.

 

 

 

❤️

dopamine fuck fear and food
everything is drugs
suckle oxytocin
for the serotonin gut
skin prickles
deaf and dumb
expand and contract
uptake and release
adrenaline, pain, and longing
likes, replies, emoji.
everything is drugs.

Prompt hour # 18

Text Prompt

Write a poem about a moment of joy.

Joyful

Today I choose to be joyful.
Revel in the little things.
Bask in the sunshine
of my everlasting glow.
My skin warms up.
My nerves lost control.

Recall my purpose- I am.
Forget all the reasons why I don’t think I can.
Today I am just going to be.
Breathe in, breathe out.
Leave the rest to be dealt
with a joyful streak of a smile.

Smile at every single person.
Twirl if I need to…
Sing, break into movement
to celebrate this moment of relevation.
My presence- my glory, my moment.

Joy is here to celebrate me.
Empower me,
Flowing through me.
Flowering my expression.

So while I am here,
I choose joy everyday.
Let the sun shine on me.

 

Photo by Fuu J on Unsplash

If You Say So–Hour 18

My participle is dangling

my modifier misplaced

look under the hood

supercharger disgraced

un-muddy the waters

that flow through the brain

and ring in the new year

with a merry refrain

If coffee can do

what coffee say do

I’ll make it to nineteen

and so will you

 

 

 

 

 

Grandparents Feathers

My childhood is tied to Dr. Mario
and the ten inch portable tv

stationary in my memory, a gift

from the man I’ve loved best.
There were always gifts

and birthday cakes.
Saviors, the both of them.

nymphettes (prompt 11)

we still sprint through the park with our tops off
with hopes of belonging to the wind
our mouths wide and grinning
joyful shrieking like banshees
ravaging silence from the siren space
within our throats

we vanish into the trees become the shadows
hardly able to speak or breathe
sides splitting – flaking bark
barking back at neighborhood dogs
howling untamed with them
a leaf-limbed pack of teenage hyenas