Memorizing You

~ Candace ~ 18 Comments

At Real Toadswe’re Under an Influence for the Weekend-Mini
I used Memorizing “The Sun Rising” by John Donne, by Billy Collins as my inspiration

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i tried to memorize
your eyes
your nose
your mouth

so that when you
were gone
(or maybe i)
the image would remain

i tried to remember
the feel of
your skin
your hair

your breath on my neck
so that when you
went away
(or maybe i)

some sense of you would remain
now here, alone, they fade but
from the next room
from the next town

your image
your touch
are the beats of my heart
that i call love

restlessness

~ Candace ~ 3 Comments

Paloma has asked us to write a Shadorma inspired by the Indigo Girls song Closer to Fine.
I loved the tin whistle in the song and wanted to make it part of my Shadorma.
~
whistle me
a song of answers
no doctors
or bar friends
can sing the notes I need to
calm my restlessness

—-
B&Ps Shadorma & Beyond at MLMM

Sensory Love

~ Candace ~ 20 Comments

 

I love the illusion of you
that lingers on your
favorite chair and in
the rumpled sheets
I love the scent of you
that hangs in the air
after you pass by
I love the sound of you
that echoes through
these empty rooms
when you are gone
I love the feel of you
at the end of a day
when there is just us

Opening Hand

~ Candace ~ 11 Comments

d’Verse Poetics – Can You Give Me A Hand?
Mish at mishunderstoodhas challenged us to write a poem using “hands” as our inspiration.
—–
Opening Hand

she shoved her hand into
a pocket and found she
had nothing to say

her thoughts
were clenched in a fist
sharp ideas dug into her palms

until letter by letter
fingers of words uncurled
she flung them up to the sky

and poems rained down
reached out and waved
farewell to her