CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Harmony

                    Harmony Sound flies in like angels who dance through frequency haloes. Listen. Hear earth’s multi-facet song, haunting melodies I never heard before. A tutor for my feet, a ravisher for my ears, a lover for my heart. Deep in the earth I sense vibration. nebulous ghost-notes...Read More »

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Guide me to your star

                  Guide me to your star Guide me to your star Loving you is hard Can’t know how to be Can’t be other than me Guide me to your star Lift me in my life Lift my heart to your level Tough, so tough to...Read More »

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Mad Tea Party Poetry I

                  Mad Tea Party Poetry I Hooray, hooray, today’s the day We welcome Magda back to play She disappeared to exotic places to worlds we’d never shown our faces Like an honest thief in the night She stole our poems for her delight Did we protest – Oh No no no For Magda, anything,...Read More »

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Blessed be!

                  I don’t shy away…  I don’t shy away from difficult topics in my poems, but there are so many sad poets stuck in their own heads that I now try to write myself out of my world worries, sadnesses and fears by directing my writing toward wonder and wondering instead. Mothers’...Read More »

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Hidden Places

                  Hidden Places Sintered words and pleasant places bide In every secret desire Over the shadows of our solemn times Before the word became this fire.‎ Hidden places have burdened once with hope Another patient toil to bide me through the wait No hope...Read More »

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Pentantekut

                  Pentantekut           ‘Settlers’ came and took the name    And gave it one of their own    They all call it Tibble’s Lake now    As if millenniums would know     Loon lives here and calls at night    The song that says this is home    Blue heron nests a ways down the creek,    In...Read More »

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In my secret forest

                  In my secret forest In my secret forest at the bottom of my garden I discovered a shell It was empty Yet when I held it to my ear I found it filled with sound The swirling ocean rushing, roaring, crashing on to the beach The whistling of the wind whipping up the sand stinging...Read More »

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Hardwired to Connect

                Hardwired to Connect human-to-humanwe are rooted in earthhuman-to-non-human we live in this spaceand the space in betweenwith a new sense of place innate self knows…gifts are life’s birthrightand our intuition flows interdependenceexplores past separationand tears down defense from a supportive placewe hear ourself and othersfrom a compassionate space we gain newfound respecttread gently on mother earthhumanity...Read More »

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Bagua

                          Bagua Bodies float in rivers. Women are sacrificing their lives for the Amazon jungles they call home. Women are mourning their men and their children. Oil wells and rainforests, uneasy bedfellows in each other’s tricksy embrace, with profit the sole measure of progress. Killed in the...Read More »

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Cast Down from Your Heaven

                    Cast Down from Your Heaven   I have been cast down from your heaven my tongue cut out No more words do you wish from this fiery throat that spilled such warm sugar into your pinkish ear Oh, you never kept your promise to cure my lovesick heart instead you called on the gods who have sworn to silence my words for you Like...Read More »

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