Sunday Whirl & National Poetry Month

Hi all,

It's National Poetry Month, and I'm excited to write a new poem inspired by Sunday Whirl.

An Ode to Fallen Hair

You have made plans,
Split ends
Mourning, musing, mocking
My beauty
At the root.
Fuchsia comb growls
Runs its hot teeth
Through my scalp.
No heaven in this falling out.
A final farewell
To heal these tortuous acts,
The blow dryers breath,
And your foes:
Bleach, dye, and sun.

It was the summer of 99
And I thought beauty 
Were rows of thick braids
Tickling my back.
My scalp gleamed like a cornfield
Shivering, sashaying 
In one bountiful motion
When I shook my head.
But my heart bursts
The night my hair tumbles,
Cascading black tufts
In a porcelain sink.
With prayer and time,
My mother's mending fingers
Tamed the flyaway's broken song.

Dali's Rose

A rose bloomed

In that patch of blue

With love and lust imbued

Perfumed, made the sunlight blush

Levitated 

In that land of ash and dust.

Inspired by Salvador Dali's Meditative Rose

Van Gogh's Sunflowers

I will be buried

In a sea of sunflowers

I will traverse the land

While it is young

I will carry a bouquet

For your tears

As blossoms splatter

On my jacket and trousers

I will reach heaven's spire

Etch the luminous profile of God

Regalia in that summer flower's crown

Art by JK Potter

Warmer Skies

The sky was fairer

The air warmer 

For my hopes to soar

Sharing a snapshot from an October sky and hoping for warmer weather.

Happy Sky Watch!

Of Mice & Men (Haiku)

A mouse gains a friend

Iron fisted-strong as sin

Rabbit earth for men

Winter's Touch

Shiver

Down my

Bark

Winter

Cleaves

Her touch

Reigns frost

Written for Sky Watch Friday & my blogging friends.

Glimmering Trees

Luminous spark in your eyes

Anticipate Christmas surprise

Real angels glimmer in trees

For Sky Watch Friday

Dew (Haiku)

Hi all,

Here's another haiku write!  Hope you enjoy.

Your lips meet mine fast
Gentle kiss as dew on grass
Dissipates too soon

Written for Haiku Heights

Rivulet (Haiku Heights)

Hi bloggers,

Happy December and winter dreams!

May I cross your stream
Bridge love to marry our dreams
Two hearts swimming free

Written for Haiku Heights

Thanksgiving Sky

Sky stuffed with love

Thankful for one more year

Happy Sky Watch All!!

An Autumn Poem

Fallen leaves

Beautifully

Crunch as metaphors

Beneath my toes

Lines and verses

An autumn poem

Happy Sky Watch!!

Grass (Haiku)

Blessed kiss of grass

Where spring has spread her hands wide

Shelters earth and life

For Haiku Heights

An Endless Sky

I am thankful

For eyes

To witness 

The beauty 

Of an endless sky

Happy Sky Watch friends!

Returning Home

Dear bloggers,

I've been away for a few months but it feels like a lifetime!  I hope you are all doing well in the blogging world.  To update everyone, I've immersed myself in my candle business and it's been a wonderful new project.  I will be marketing my soy candles to local craft fairs and selling cards with my poetry.  I'm excited and eager for this to take off!!

I am also happy to return to my blogging home.  I will continue to write when I feel inspired and read all of your amazing blog posts. Thanks for your support and friendship!

Furtive knocking

Doors unlocking

Familiar faces

Strong embraces

Returning home

Farewell

Hi Bloggers,

The time has come for me to part ways with Write In Motion.  I have been blessed to write and blog for four years, and I am inspired by all of you.  Thank you for your visits and comments over the years.  It has meant so much to me.

God Bless and Happy Blogging!!

Roam Free

Boy's epiphany

The clouds are soft for running

Blue space to roam free

Written for friends at Haiku Heights

&

Happy Sky Watch!!!

The Moon's Eye

The moon's eye

Lights a summer night

And holds within its gaze

A poem for me

Happy Sky Watch all!!!

Love Wordle

Hi all,

It was summer love
A second glance
No chance to leave it
Between thanks and please

Friends, they laughed
But none could mistake
Their language passed 
A note of intrigue

Together they rest
In the hot breeze
Children of heat
And humidity

She may translate
The whispers 
On his lips
He may detect
The longing
In her eyes

Surprise her
With a kiss
Perhaps a mistake
Though the conscience
Grows sick with time

From my experience
The lab of love
Holds an elixir
For young hearts

Written For Sunday Whirl

Swing (Haiku)

Hi bloggers,

I am writing a pair of haiku for Haiku Heights.  The theme is swing.

Delicate sing-song
Braids swing in summer's light free
Like a gentle poem

Carefree girl
Hallelujah love
Soaring home

Liberty

The image is Supermoon 2013, by Julio Cortez, AP

Liberty measures

Her brilliant flame in the sky

Hope on her shoreline

A man most broken

Casts his eyes upon freedom

American hope

Written for The Mag & Haiku Heights