Category: Other people’s poems I’ve reblogged

Originally posted on Xanku:
Dinner with best friends Such a normal thing to do And yet so strange In wet summer air How to judge humidity: How damp is the mask Early dog walkers Smiling at me with their eyes. My glasses fogged up. Three haiku from the 31 Haiku for July series, pulled for…

Originally posted on Sarah writes poems:
My boy has always been a thief – well, not a thief exactly, more like a blackbird – fingers always there nicking a slice of apple or a crumb of cheese bright eyes, cocked head, and then away knowing the first thing stolen was my heart Another quadrille for…

you know the scene already but I will set it up for you- it was snowing a few days before Christmas and he put his jacket around my shoulders the smell of leather, a memory rose between us in the c… Source: it is not as if I kept a list I so enjoyed this […]

Originally posted on Oran's Well:
space A turn of line—that’s all—suffices where no cathedral can divine the source of water in the wine. A long wave’s curl just so, wan with sunrise, grey-belled with glow. And the sound: Not the hosanna of the wave’s white crash but the longer glass recede. The perfected line…

Originally posted on Whimsygizmo's Blog:
… Shadow that wily moon. Let’s find a way to make her swoon to something besides this scattered sky, these changing tides. She needs a good spanking, really. A hankering for something other than salt, water; the quiet waning of crescent, the dust of stars.   .. I’m hosting…

Originally posted on Poetry Breakfast:
Magic It must be some kind of sorcery, how we all dip into the same alphabet-palette of 26 letters, and one man comes out with word-paintings that create phantoms to fear, while another’s words point to the infinity of the gorgeous sky, and of human possibility. ? ? About the…