sad

i may not be doing april post a poem
for a couple of days...
we just found out that my husband's father
passed away.

april 09 post-a-poem {7}

worms in the park
a shotgun in the closet
lies in the dark
cowboy junkies
captain crunch and chocolate milk
gravel pits and a motorbike
don't cut your hair

red hot chili peppers
1 floor down
toques and a nose ring
mosh pits
8 kids?
drug addict.

raincoat and rubber boots
standing beside my bus in the rain
running baths
stolen photographs
walk away and don't explain

hitchhiking
happenstance meeting
don't step on the cracks
tree built from other people's memories
snow angels
and heart attacks

playhouses, parkades and hard, fast kisses
climbing staging, forgotten keys
penny candy
and don't blow away without me...

RWP Prompt

edited to add: i don't know how long i will keep this one.

april 09 post-a-poem {6}

i am suspended
waiting
still and silent
above the trees
over the parking lot
beneath the big top...
waiting for
life
to
begin.


{followed the prompt at read write poem using this photo
by pensiero
to stir up some words...} next destination

april 09 post-a-poem {5}

everywhere is nowhere
and somewhere is here...
conclusions are far
yet resolution is near...
abiding by consequence,
swallowing down bitter fear
and calling it reality.

by any other name.

april 09 post-a-poem {4}

would you look at what i've done
would you look at where i've been
i've been stranded on an iceberg
i've been waiting for your requiem
you've been dancing away from the subject
while i've been swimming upstream
against the current of your descent
and you ask of me...
you ask of me.

i long to pass you belief
but i'm not sure where it went.