poetry – Page 63 – Words and Feathers

i keep my heart
sealed tight in a jar
so you can’t hear its beating
i put a blanket
over the glass at night
since it makes noise
while i sleep
i whisper a soft lullaby
the words your name
repeated like a heartbeat

——

for
dVerse ~ Poets Pub
Quadrille: Jar

sighs and pretenses (20160814)

August 14, 2016 crow10 Comments

we complicate the afterlife
or simplify it
smoking shadows or blinding light
always some kind of
inflated vision

of unimaginable prosperity
like a costco with free samples
in every aisle
no lines at the registers
and they take whatever credit card
you have in your wallet

of utter misery
processing travel reimbursements
with unclear reasons for changes of flight
destinations not approved
and receipts so crumbled and faded
they may as well be ancient greek
palimpsest

as for me
i will take peace and quiet
some kind of eternal stillness
as long as i can get
netflix

——

for
The Daily Post
Daily Prompt: Complicated

invocation (20160813)

August 13, 2016August 13, 2016 crow2 Comments

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cry, luscious goddess
lather us with sweaty summer worship
these breasts–smooth, languid, meat
–no
a thousand frantic lickings
the fast water must bare you
mad blood
red chocolate
crush my lust, my storm of a need

——

for
Elusive Trope
Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge

And a bonus line:

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excerpt of a ruined childhood memory (20160812)

August 12, 2016August 12, 2016 crow13 Comments

there must have been some magic
in that old silk hat they found
a thousand dark-eyed sins burst out
and began to plague the town

The Readings

August 12, 2016August 12, 2016 crow7 Comments

Well, that was fast. Pleasant Street of Are You Thrilled delivered a fantastic little poem on a recent near-death experience. You an hear it/read it at her site. And as promised, I have added two readings below.

Click to visit the Open Mic for August page.

Click to read these are the angels.

Click to read carousel

Readings and Such Matters

August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 crow

So, in this post, I asked some of you to pick a poem for me to read, and some of you did. And I do very much appreciate it. I had three poems suggested and I’ve recorded all three. I will post one tomorrow.

I will post the second IF I can get somebody else to post a link to the August Open Mic post.

I will post the third IF I can get a second somebody else to post a link to the August Open Mic post.

And so on. I’ll go back and eve re-read some of my old posts, as debilitating as that may be, and scrounge up one reading for every post that you, dear poets, link to on your own sites.

Come on, make me work. Make me dance like your puppet. I like it!