Pellucid Simplicity

Blue touch paper thoughts squirm in her back pocket 

moth~eaten corduroy darkly sighing

 

some will find intellectual deficiency in her

landslide of misfortunes

picked in pandemonium

          fingered in secret as she walks through dandelions gone to seed

 

but others ... retreat to prose

stored up, muttering rhyme in shower steam spiraling

upward

never able to balance a walk with no shoes

 

her trek through two divorces, squeeging through a screen

fallen to such dissolution

moves with wind gusts laughing through a bad batch

of combustible skies

 

her wings, blue touch paper thin, a ballet of disasters,

flutter through her fingers

Reviews

[Forest Green]

Sensibilities that are not dampened by rough treatment or made numb by severed hopes and untempered dreams. Instead emotion finds imagination, longing meets ink, and an awareness of the kindness that still shines in abundance is made a matter of record. Capable of bringing others through the ballet of calamities, to find the music still playing on the other side.

Wonderfully written and patiently transcribed...

[Relic]

I only wish I could write this way. Images, imagination and a skill for using just the right words. Someday...someday.

[Wondering Mind]

It IS wonderful to have you back!
Such creative expression!

[Ed Hart]

well yes, calamities, but that's how we make poets, at least ones who can write pellucid simplicities

[emmajoy]

'her wings.blue touch paper thin, a ballet of calamities,
flutter through her fingers ' .. .. fragile, beautiful.

A view into world of always-to-be-remembered by a poet worth remembering .. thank you for sharing

[Arthur Henn]

A moment of soft whisper - a touch of class meets up with each line written...

Love what this line says

as she walks barefoot through dandelions gone to seed

(J) So good to have you back

[Chris]

A touch of wistful whimsy... a coffee moment.