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d’Verse Poets Pub – Meet Jackie Hurlbert
– photo by Jackie Hurlbert-
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Bird Song
When evening tip-toes in
To calm the industry of day
When light begins to dim and wind
Becomes a gentle breath
These are the moments birds whisper
Songs to me, filling my dreams
With the hope of their voices
NaPoWriMo Day twenty four – ekphrastic poem based on Medieval marginalia
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A Bold Poem
This poem will not be marginalized
Pushed aside by lions with violins
Cats playing bagpipes or rabbits with knives
It will not become some colored squiggle
Along the edges of a page
This poem is BOLD and brave
Its words SHOUT and wave for attention
For a proper introduction, adulation
Each sentence marches across the page
Following the one before, confidently,
From corner to corner, leaving no room for
Naves and scoundrels
“Roots” by Frida Kahlo
I was alone
abandoned
rejected
My world was
cracked
barren
I cried salty tears
of despair
praying for
absolution
redemption
And they watered
the hope which
was buried
almost dead
Slowly tendrils
of mercy
embraced me
and love returned
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Poetic Asides PAD Day 6 – Ekphrastic
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