List: Silver Poetry

• The New Reservation Teacher (Silver)

  They were urged to rise up and go out
  of their villages and go moonless into the world

  47 lines, 24 comments, on Mar 21 12:41 PM 2006. In Society
• Skin Talk (Silver)

  when the touch is gone
  so I will know it.

  27 lines, 18 comments, on Apr 27 7:30 PM 2006. In Love
• Simple Sun-lapper (Silver)

  where he could test the surreal symptoms
  caused by a stranger, lapping up the sun.

  33 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 29 9:24 AM 2006. In Contemporary
• Awas (Silver)

  kayas, awas, moonyas,
  nimin~o-aya’n

  33 lines, 13 comments, on May 2 8:01 PM 2006. In Contemporary
• Rivers of Birds (Silver)

  Row the rivers of longing,
  And dance, dear, dance

  40 lines, 16 comments, on May 3 7:51 AM 2006. In Hope
• The Empty Titmouse Nest - Silver

  She watched the titmouse, heard it chitter, and knew him to a hawk
  waiting to feed on the rest of her. Her nest was empty.

  63 lines, 13 comments, on May 20 5:20 PM 2006. In Sad
• Riverside Louis' Quill Work- SILVER

  He simply sits around his own fire,
  watching us react to his beauty we have to look deep for.

  1 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 2 10:15 AM 2006. In Spiritual
• From The Black Hole Of The Universe - Silver

  Did you think that Great Eye did not see
  unworthiness of this ungentled stroke

  58 lines, 14 comments, on Jul 9 7:03 AM 2006. In Angst
• Mikisew Earth, Air, Water, and Fire - silver

  Let there be peace for what came before, what comes now,
  what comes after. It is our way. It is the way for all.

  53 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 13 5:47 AM 2006. In Society
• Little Hells - Silver

  Keep your little hells to yourself. Not even god is interested.
  

  31 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 30 12:00 PM 2006. In Adult, Dark
• Pond's Mournful Musical - silver

  Utopia, this hidden body of water,
  until the violin of sunrise calls to rise.

  22 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 5 5:53 AM 2006. In Nature
• Chocolate Sky - Silver

  Greedily
  the lake swallows it.

  18 lines, 14 comments, on Aug 22 6:24 AM 2006. In Nature
• I Have Seen Your Voice-Silver

  I have seen your voice
  in the lightning’s sharp yellow arc
  coloring the sky of this misplaced shore

  45 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 24 5:04 PM 2006
• Language of Love To The Least Of These - silver

  together, for coming light that we began with simply being a light unto ourselves and expanded into a flame, one small heart at a time.

  17 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 29 6:42 AM 2006. In Society, Spiritual, Hope
• It Needs Retelling - silver

  women of that sixth instinct
  know which spill spreads by dividing,
  by diving, by determination, to be divine

  26 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 4 3:50 PM 2006. In society, spiritual
• Horse Man - Silver

  a tall tale for a green-broke granddaughter riding
  a saddle-like porch swing all the way to your stalled heaven
  

  57 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 13 8:15 AM 2006. In society, family, love
• Ritual -silver

  I allow a chunk of dry hair
  to fall into the fire as a shadow
  

  11 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 31 5:03 PM 2006. In Grief
• Rainprints-silver

  What little splashes we were in that life.
  

  36 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 4 7:14 PM 2007. In Society
• Cracked Cup of Sky-Silver

  We have hung on to the night
  until it has caved in on us
  

  45 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 29 7:47 PM 2006
• A Decade's Dearest Fear - Silver

  A decade's training
  makes me know spring
  can kill as quickly as December.

  31 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 15 8:00 PM 2007. In Personal
• Weaver of Words - Silver

  rest well, beneath the cover of kinship,
  beneath care of friendship,
  

  37 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 4 10:15 AM 2007. In Friendship
• Cranberry Crucible - silver

  the reason I kneel, arms in slush up to my raw wrists,
  to save them from a warming that may come too quickly.
  

  21 lines, 9 comments, on Jan 19 1:06 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• On Pushing, Pulling and Being Led - Silver

  We are split, grounded, passed by,
  and strangers to everything and everyone, but you.
  

  47 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 26 10:30 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Working World With Words -Silver

  We give birth to ourselves. We bear down through pain and sorrow to
  ensure future nations.

  34 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 26 1:03 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Society
• Wall Talk - Silver

  Voices in walls verify that she had a yesterday:

  46 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 27 9:19 AM 2007. In Personal
• Majestic Mourning - silver

  These mountains make me know how very small
  and alone I am in the blue,

  34 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 31 12:32 PM 2007
• Sounds of Skin-Knowing - silver

  memory inhales
  and exhales from every aching muscle
  of my belief that I may lose sight of you

  49 lines, 16 comments, on Jan 17 11:11 PM 2007. In Love
• Drop Dead, Dust-eaters -silver

  do I need to gear down my red Passat
  Lob-mobile and leave you in my dust
  

  39 lines, 15 comments, on Dec 31 7:32 PM 2006. In Society
• Fake Faith - silver

  as honest a hope as greenhouse
  raised tomatoes,

  11 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 28 8:29 PM 2007. In Personal
• Betoukuag - Silver

  lighthouse trying to find
  what has been lost.

  50 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 7 8:04 PM 2007. In Society
• Owl Oldness - silver

  Silent Seer, open wide as night-half world,
  

  10 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 12 11:25 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Orchids Under Glass - Silver

  cracked lipped survivors
  are no use in a frame
  

  24 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 18 8:18 AM 2007. In Life
• Handfuls of God -Silver

  8 lines, 12 comments, on Feb 18 6:34 PM 2007. In spiritual
• WD40 Denial - silver

  7 lines, 11 comments, on Feb 19 11:50 PM 2007. In Contemporary
• Frosted Foe - silver

  5 lines, 6 comments, on Feb 20 6:49 PM 2007. In Angst
• Seeping Proof - silver

  6 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 21 8:10 AM 2007. In Sad
• Altar - Silver

  My sacred room is a place to get away
  from common world; a holy place,
  

  57 lines, 15 comments, on Feb 21 6:01 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Justice For Just Rob - Silver

  guitar man, strum me. I am music in your choir
  you could never be Just Rob to me
  

  42 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 15 8:08 PM 2007. In Friendship
• No Mystery To This - Silver

  39 lines, 16 comments, on Feb 25 10:26 AM 2007. In spirituality
• I Will Not Grieve - Silver

  12 lines, 8 comments, on Feb 26 7:47 PM 2007. In Nature
• Little Red Riding Should - Silver

  Wolves live there, I’m sure you know
  And why walk where you should not go?
  

  19 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 17 8:48 AM 2007. In Society
• Holy Strum - Silver

  O, palm to pulse at throat
  begins holiest hum.

  30 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 24 4:01 PM 2007. In Love
• Back-draft Bandits - silver

  24 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 1 6:35 PM 2007. In Loss
• Lonesome Locomotive - silver

  19 lines, 8 comments, on Mar 17 6:20 AM 2007. In Thoughts
• Somewhere Over There -bronze

  crocheting another rainbow
  patterned afghan

  9 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 8 5:01 AM 2006. In Love
• Sucked-Dry Solace - Silver

  23 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 1 12:42 PM 2007. In Life
• Pledge Peace - silver

  Whisper it so softly that others must lean
  into your last wish and know you meant truth
  

  27 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 12 9:35 PM 2007. In Society
• Expecting An End - silver

  what wild miracle will rise, red and angry,
  if morning comes again.
  

  28 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 16 10:29 PM 2007. In Nature
• Bubbly Best Last Chance - Silver

  Lord Byron and Cleopatra had a bubbly affair,
  when he visited a viney vision of her pearl’s
  

  22 lines, 1 comment, on Apr 18 2:42 PM 2007. In Society
• Trembling Testimonial of Devotion - silver

  37 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 19 6:06 PM 2007. In Adult
• Persuasive Palettes - Silver

  What wakens green, wrestling with their writhe?
  I think I know what whispers to them

  26 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 21 9:14 AM 2007. In Nature
• The Heated Hearth of Healing - Silver

  a wrinkled hand drops tobacco
  at hairy roots and offers a raspy song
  

  24 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 15 6:37 PM 2007. In natue, spiritual
• Pursuing A Poem of Peace - Silver

  Oh, to grasp such writing
  winging its way to new horizons

  0 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 14 8:48 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Sorrow's Stash - Silver

  I have things in storage for almost a decade
  that I pay not to have to retrieve.
  

  28 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 18 10:58 AM 2007. In Personal
• Tapped Wisdom - silver

  Birch trees, waiting full and sappy
  in Wood Buffalo National Park,

  28 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 24 7:50 AM 2007. In Society
• Storm Talk -Silver

  burn invisible poems
  across the skim of the lake. This is lighteningtalk.

  30 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 2 9:54 PM 2006. In Nature
• Everyone's Old Farm -Silver

  This is about no particular farm, but I could make it grow
  from memories of my grandfather’s few acres

  35 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 8 6:18 PM 2006. In Nature
• Riverside Louis' Reverence - Silver

  his pointer-finger
  can dip into the water so he can bless himself, in private.

  0 lines, 20 comments, on Jun 13 6:52 PM 2006. In Society
• Moonless Moment - Silver

  feel the fold of it
  in this moonless moment.

  37 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 7 8:47 PM 2006. In Nature, Love
• For the Love of Ceremony - Silver

  Buckskin smoldering on stacked stick fire,
  moon blessing words whispered like soft wind,

  41 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 21 7:36 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Oh, If You Had Known America - Silver

  she was named Amanda,
  while her dad flew over Europe

  60 lines, 14 comments, on Apr 22 3:18 PM 2007. In Society
• Laying On Of Hands - silver

  Have you ever looked at a curl of hair,
  mid-kiss, and known god’s perfection

  19 lines, 12 comments, on Apr 24 7:20 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Repairing Peteskid's Passion

  Pressed by pulse and push of life’s / evocative stretch of heart,

  22 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 25 6:55 AM 2007. In Friendship
• I Am Brown Belief - silver

  72 lines, 12 comments, on Apr 25 8:14 AM 2007. In Personal
• Ways Of Being Heard - Silver

  How shall we make our mark / here where man has forgotten / simple skills of hearing / what we were sent to say?

  34 lines, 8 comments, on May 3 2:40 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• A Year 's Worth of Yearning - Silver

  Spring
  She, like a startled bird

  156 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 21 11:57 AM 2007. In Life
• You Want Difficult? - Silver

  58 lines, 9 comments, on May 2 7:11 PM 2007. In Personal, Adult
• Fretting - Silver

  Mandolin, begging for mercy,

  17 lines, 1 comment, on May 5 5:37 AM 2007. In Life, Music
• Shafted - Silver

  your heart lives to carve dens

  11 lines, 10 comments, on May 10 10:24 PM 2007. In Loss
• Riverside Louis Has Reason To Rest - Silver

  This man is slow moving stream on a calm day / undemanding but sloshing / down a crooked path next to hurrying highway / headed for anywher

  0 lines, 5 comments, on May 23 5:11 PM 2007. In Society
• Changed While Dancing - Silver

  In soft night’s hum, a hand reached out

  23 lines, 14 comments, on May 10 4:13 PM 2007. In Personal
• Unbroken Vow, For Now - Silver

  This is not tight-eyed dream, / but loose-lid / scheme / to keep you closer than is best; / deeply shrouded in my / rest. / I have a way of

  73 lines, 4 comments, on May 23 11:40 AM 2007
• Sun-seethe - Silver

  4 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 2 6:30 AM 2007. In Nature
• Cell Deep Kin - Silver

  First the Prophet spoke to my bones

  34 lines, 6 comments, on May 23 3:08 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Memory Meddling With My Muse -Silver

  Constant movement of brush, of hand, / to create over and over / as if grief would never get itself down / in thick enough paint or hard en

  35 lines, 10 comments, on May 23 9:59 PM 2007. In Personal
• One and All - Silver

  23 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 3 8:58 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Cauled Barn Owl -silver

  24 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 7 8:01 AM 2007. In Nature
• I Am! - silver

  I am daughter to Eve, Goddess, / Father, Sun, Sky, and Earth. / I am kin to animal, bird, snake, / fish arching into beautiful big sky. / I

  23 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 6 9:57 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• There Was A Fire In The Choir - Silver

  Once singing leaves fluted faith down the valleys, / sent drum and thrum of wood-heart songs / across lisp of lakes and tickled streams / s

  19 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 7 10:57 AM 2007. In Nature
• Bathwater Blues - Silver

  Disturbing water with bare feet, / sailing visions surrender to swirl / until they are awash with melancholic / driftwood dreams / sinking,

  28 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 10 9:16 AM 2007. In Sad
• Spirit-Keeper's Sacrilege -silver

  Words hardened with dark blemishes, / settling in her cradle of consciousness. / Turquoise necklace hung heavy / at throat pulse / like har

  14 lines, 5 comments, on Jun 14 12:46 PM 2007. In Sad
• Stone-Bearer - Silver

  Stone is mystic, shaman, slave, nun, wife, mother, / celebrating survival in a world where it rains / and sun is both blessing and a curse

  23 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 14 9:47 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Saturday Night Memories - silver

  Bareback and young, we spent Saturday evenings

  27 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 15 4:51 PM 2007. In Society, personal
• Gyrating For A Glimpse -silver

  I’ve looked for you in the forest,

  31 lines, 9 comments, on Jun 19 6:43 AM 2007. In Nature
• Inevitable Non-Avoidance of Absolute -silver

  Avoiding the Absolute / Folding words, like clothes / freshly laundered, devoid of any dust / collected in fiber and hem, / hoping upon hea

  41 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 14 5:28 PM 2007. In Personal
• Pull-tab Epiphany - Silver

  I watched him bend beer cans into torsos / after he had drained them to last drop / and knew it was over / Tossed into a side garbage bin /

  19 lines, 13 comments, on Jul 24 3:33 PM 2007. In Epiphany
• Alone -Silver

  There is a silver-sinew of a strand of web

  36 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 26 9:56 AM 2007. In Thoughts
• Water Woman - silver

  27 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 11 5:45 PM 2007. In Adult
• On Grit and Greenly Growing Things - Silver

  14 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 13 6:32 PM 2007. In Life
• Second-hand Solace - silver

  6 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 14 9:05 PM 2007. In Personal
• Losing My Wings - silver

  18 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 17 7:42 AM 2007. In Angst
• Moving to The Meter Of The Music - HM - silver

  Everything is attached, like toy,
  to the hand of god, pulling, tugging,
  pushing us at his required meter of his music.

  34 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 13 9:38 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Marrow Miracle - Silver

  29 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 12 12:22 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Fine Hot Line Of Calm - silver

  23 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 13 9:37 PM 2007. In Personal
• Soft-Slip Sound - Silver

  6 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 17 3:20 PM 2007. In Nature
• Tree Talk - Silver

  Trees know skin when they see it.
  

  25 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 9 11:53 AM 2007. In Nature
• It's A Wrap - silver

  I want people to envy the youngest and oldest even more than they do.
  

  34 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 4 2:37 PM 2007. In Life
• Well-strung Season - silver

  32 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 7 8:24 AM 2007. In Nature
• Candlelight Cairn - Silver

  A candle sitting on the sill was a welcome
  to sailors who oared hard for home.
  

  39 lines, 10 comments, on Mar 19 11:24 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• I Have A Pearl Necklace - silver

  How could I have lit the way for others
  if I had been fuming about my own

  28 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 23 4:03 PM 2007. In Personal
• Sacrifice of Second Comings - Silver

  14 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 24 7:02 AM 2007. In Adult
• Autumn's Magician - silver

  Wizard of wand and Magician of pyre
  sweep yellow signs to your changelings’ that twitter

  12 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 24 6:49 PM 2007. In Nature, Fantasy
• Dulcinea Spins The Windmill Still - Silver

  It was not supposed to be this way, my knight~
  You were supposed to see gold in my hair not these thin hanks

  23 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 24 8:42 PM 2007. In Personal
• Swinging In The Moonlight - Silver

  hammock hung in stippled light
  offers swung peaks

  32 lines, 18 comments, on Aug 25 9:24 AM 2007. In Nature
• No Lao-tzu But Licked Clean, Nonetheless - Silver

  Unlike Mystic born of struck star,
  I am not heaven-burst of much of anything

  12 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 28 9:17 AM 2007. In Personal
• Dam Images - silver

  I am a dam of images, inspirations
  that rumble inside, then up and pour over;

  20 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 30 8:51 PM 2007. In Writing
• From Ice To I - silver

  Water falls from sky eye I
  know beauty in frozen stalactites

  22 lines, 13 comments, on Sep 3 11:02 AM 2007
• Air - Silver

  There is no argument about what air is and what it is not.
  Geese, slanting off into alphabet essence and absence,

  32 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 4 6:06 AM 2007. In Nature, Spiritual
• Ten Thousand Cicadas - silver

  Hum, strum of wrung Sages
  waiting to molt their childhood play

  32 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 4 8:37 AM 2007. In Friendship, Society, Nature
• Soft Secret Place of Stun - silver

  I am woman you have met anywhere
  and will not matter, between times or ever

  13 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 5 8:08 AM 2007. In Loss
• Remembering Hem Gather - silver

  It’s best, you know to remember how to jump into piles of leaves
  when crinkle-down landings are full of frivolity and fall

  24 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 9 12:34 PM 2007
• In Case Of Forgetting - Silver

  She stood next to me in Choir,
  close enough to grab my hand

  44 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 9 3:06 PM 2007
• From Which We , Rubble, Rise - Silver

  Just beneath curve of ball,
  arch of lense, pinpoint pupil

  20 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 11 12:45 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Stalled - silver

  rivulets traced wet fingers
  down misted pane

  24 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 18 7:57 AM 2007. In Nature, Life
• Stomach Ache - silver

  Itchy throw arm tucked
  hand in hand

  23 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 19 8:44 AM 2007
• Headlight Potential - silver

  After twilight of a tendered heart,
  a long ways from any soulful sleep

  19 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 19 10:04 AM 2007
• A Crinkled Sky Of Cranes - Silver

  thousands of origami originals
  feverishly folded

  19 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 12 10:18 AM 2007
• Life's Lumpy Lessons - Silver

  lump of clay
  as healing

  19 lines, 17 comments, on Oct 29 10:55 AM 2007. In Life
• Hairpins and Coffee - silver

  Such gentle fists
  curve to cup

  29 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 20 9:54 AM 2007. In Society
• Ground Down Goodbyes - silver

  nothing is as loud as geese going,
  as a lone loon left too long at the lake,

  43 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 26 8:41 AM 2007. In Society
• Testy Tattoo - silver

  a dragon crests between muscles
  fleshy folds of yesterday’s bright ink

  17 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 10 8:34 AM 2007
• Same Old Sigh - silver

  Do trees tire of constant push and pull;
  the force to dance

  21 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 17 11:44 AM 2007. In Thoughts
• Re-knotting Myself To Know - silver

  I had to swing precariously free
  to know slow woven disclosure:

  22 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 17 12:22 PM 2007. In Spiritual, soulful
• Looking For Something She Lost -silver

  I do not want to imagine what made her haul
  ninety-year-old bones over rails

  29 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 17 12:38 PM 2007. In Life
• Treading Air To Tend To You - Silver

  she’s there, treading air
  and willing

  28 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 19 1:52 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• Walking Naked Back To Eden - Silver

  The weight of other’s gaze, was an evil eye,
  as Eve bent her bones to leaving

  42 lines, 16 comments, on Nov 23 10:12 AM 2007
• Making Eve Weep - Silver

  amazing women kneel
  on blood red landscape

  16 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 23 11:15 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Repose - silver

  After fierce faltering fall
  down through sharp-edged clefts,

  22 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 26 10:02 AM 2007. In nature
• Cleaning My Keening - Silver

  Sky releases its clouds,
  dancing dirge-like rain drops gallop,

  30 lines, 17 comments, on Nov 18 8:25 PM 2007. In Sorrow
• Bending To Last Beat - Silver

  Oil slick voice of spirit’s slow death
  on unflung wing and caustic craw.

  30 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 23 10:34 PM 2007. In Nature
• Softest Place To Fall - Silver

  Swollen eyes of a left-lover
  leaning into her pillow

  30 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 24 5:42 PM 2007. In Pain
• An Ally To Sorrow - silver

  It is best walked alone, this sorrowed path
  when gray has settled like lichen foam

  67 lines, 8 comments, on Nov 25 12:00 PM 2007
• Wet Talk - silver

  These are willow-words
  being cupped from water

  36 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 3 10:47 PM 2007
• Jingle Jangle - silver

  the earth is a belly
  dancing, undulating, jingling

  35 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 1 9:51 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Society
• Crow At Midnight - silver

  Thought
  Like a crow feather dropped

  41 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 3 6:56 AM 2007. In Nature, thoughts
• She Is Chinook - silver

  Like woman’s post-menopausal
  wild lash of horizontal lip

  58 lines, 9 comments, on Nov 27 10:35 AM 2007
• Death And I

  I met Death in a living room,
  when I was pushed, pulled through a door

  62 lines, 13 comments, on Dec 7 7:27 PM 2007
• Oh Walled Town Of Bethlehem - silver

  Oh little town of Bethlehem, how down we’ve seen you fall
  So in thy drum and thrum of life, you’re caught behind a wall

  26 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 12 11:00 AM 2007. In Parody
• Come Down Arch Of Hope - Silver

  When rainbow upends itself
  like poured bowl of light

  19 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 16 8:43 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Peace Tree - silver

  These symbols on our sacred tree
  is bright with simple awe:

  25 lines, 5 comments, on Dec 10 10:10 PM 2007. In Spiritual
• And She Rises - silver

  Wound like shroud, silent like death,
  as if asleep, I was dumbstruck,

  39 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 16 8:53 PM 2007. In Self, healing
• Dear Daughter - Silver

  These are holy days, dear heart,
  when family needs to draw

  30 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 18 12:38 PM 2007. In Sad
• More And More Cracked Rib Starvation - Silver

  Cracked ribs of earth heave heavily
  to sound round and bellyful of hunger

  28 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 7 8:53 AM 2007. In Society
• Dark Star-silver

  He who made light and pulsing rhythms: particles
  aching to implode or explode;

  29 lines, 10 comments, on Dec 22 7:32 AM 2007. In Personal
• The Downside Upside Of Being Adopted - Silver

  There is no heartbreak
  like uncommon kin,

  35 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 31 6:48 PM 2007
• Sensing Something Greater - silver

  It is there on tip of tongue,
  an image almost in focus,

  37 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 25 8:21 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• Dormer Dreams - silver

  Up Dormer-dreams on slanted motes
  peaking through sun-rotted crepe

  24 lines, 12 comments, on Dec 26 9:27 PM 2007
• Gratitude For A Gracious Hand - silver

  Out in far flung snow is a voice
  pulsing from beneath the earth to answer

  36 lines, 14 comments, on Jan 1 3:03 PM 2008. In Nature
• Knowing What To Fear - silver

  20 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 4 9:06 AM 2008. In Personal, nature
• Paint By Tongue - silver

  33 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 7 6:15 AM 2008. In Adult
• Good Man: Bad Man - silver

  What makes this so important is that he was,
  perhaps still is, a good man, once

  17 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 8 4:07 PM 2008. In Sad
• A Loose Feather - Silver

  Feather-floated on spiritual air:
  kissed by slanted slats of serendipity, I weave beautifully,

  17 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 9 9:03 AM 2008. In Spiritual
• Crook To Rest - silver

  These white wings doubled over
  in wretch to reach particular sea of trees

  16 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 12 7:58 PM 2008. In Spiritual
• Taking Form - silver

  It takes surrender of clay to beak of bird that whispers
  beyond skyful whistles big and blue about gray mass taking shape

  22 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 13 10:45 AM 2008. In Spiritual
• Shelter-Silver

  Strands of sunlight settled like birds on branches
  and gray-stained snow slithers off

  31 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 26 8:55 AM 2008
• A Reason To Flush, Angelically - Siver

  She is ferociously dramatic and vivid
  on taut suspense of natural upheaval

  27 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 7 10:18 AM 2008. In Life, Spiritual
• Water Wonder - Silver

  before string and net,
  arms and toes,

  19 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 9 11:54 AM 2008. In Life, thoughts
• Epiphany - Silver

  Poets, lips quivering
  on rim of hot cups,

  48 lines, 22 comments, on Mar 26 4:08 PM 2008. In Society
• Wasted Energy - Silver

  the sky is falling, the sky is falling;
  all eyes went up where towers used to be

  44 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 3 6:46 PM 2008. In Society
• Cracks In Everything - silver

  “Listen,” I said, it’s either crack or kids
  and she scrawled her name

  52 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 6 10:14 AM 2008. In Sad
• Eternal Stance - Silver

  frozen pale stone-faced stance
  chanced dance stunned silent

  21 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 15 9:30 AM 2008. In Society
• Handling Love Languages - Silver

  This hand knows when to bar the eyes from such stun
  sun sticking shirt to sweaty breast

  22 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 24 5:33 PM 2008. In Love
• Dust To Dust Cost - Silver

  Cold as marble, armless, left to sink
  in Grecian dust

  42 lines, 3 comments, on Apr 27 5:06 PM 2008. In Society
• Spring's Awakenings Arch - Silver

  Slipping green fingers up out of
  Previously protective cotton batting,

  23 lines, 9 comments, on Apr 20 9:51 AM 2008. In Nature
• Meltdown - Silver

  Moving within stipple shade of nightning pines,
  birch standing guard against full swallow

  27 lines, 9 comments, on May 21 8:42 AM 2008. In Emotion
• Captured - silver

  a moment captured
  a heart held

  23 lines, 7 comments, on May 27 7:41 AM 2008. In Memories
• March For Two -Silver

  March is peeling her gray sweater off her shoulders,
  slipping her dangly arms out of one sleeve then the other

  30 lines, on May 28 1:35 PM 2008. In Sad
• Bark Splitting -Silver

  black crow crowning a cause of his
  gnawing on bent twigs of trauma

  23 lines, 8 comments, on May 27 11:23 AM 2008. In Society
• Unnatural Dying -Silver

  this home
  wherein my bones shall lie,

  18 lines, 8 comments, on May 30 2:24 PM 2008. In Society
• That Kind Of Voice -Silver

  I.
  a mother, holding her feverish new baby

  47 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 4 9:58 AM 2008. In Spiritual
• Blessed Be The Hand -Silver

  blessed is the midnight hand that carves,
  the hand that molds its bits of clay,

  37 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 3 9:47 AM 2008. In Spiritual, Society
• The Wait -silver

  shrouded in foggy unknowing
  is drizzle down man and surrender

  31 lines, 8 comments, on May 21 8:53 AM 2008. In Society
• Bound To Love You -Silver

  Muscle-bound
  manly braced

  10 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 1 7:04 AM 2008. In Society
• Beauty Be -Silver

  if stars would not wear me, I would don them
  rope my hair in colors of a rainbow

  26 lines, 15 comments, on Jun 14 6:42 PM 2008. In Society
• Carol : That Kind of Rain -Silver

  I.
  one that deserts heaven

  41 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 6 11:45 AM 2008. In Personal
• A Curl Of Cause -silver

  chick and click of loneliness, curled into a ball
  where yarn has been left to unravel on its own

  17 lines, 13 comments, on Jun 16 8:36 AM 2008
• That Kind Of Poetry -Silver

  1.
  Language lifting off to take me

  67 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 8 1:56 PM 2008
• Channel Number Nine - Silver

  Enclosed spaces, like that of birth,
  womb or tomb of rite

  26 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 24 9:37 AM 2008. In Life
• Bracelet -silver

  I no longer love you: I love the very loss of you
  I resent that drag, like grabbing fists

  29 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 15 11:37 AM 2008
• You Are Toast -Silver

  rings stamping tabletop
  coffee collecting, not dust,

  24 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 15 1:24 PM 2008. In Angst
• Annie Gets Her Gold -silver

  I’ve had my hair done, in secret;
  pink and purple stripes

  46 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 18 6:45 PM 2008. In humor
• Bark-Scrubbed Wounds - Silver

  Oh, Amir, I will grow a new tree
  in the very spot of your demise

  26 lines, 7 comments, on Jul 21 10:12 PM 2008. In Love
• Not a Total Eclipse - Silver

  Not a total eclipse of the sun, a partial
  like trying to remember a whole face

  40 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 2 1:48 PM 2008. In sad, critical
• a walk through fog - silver

  oh hide me, wrap me
  in the shelter of anonymity,

  40 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 18 12:26 PM 2008
• Whispers From A Dying Bloom - Silver

  in the secret language

  48 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 12 11:22 AM 2008. In Soceity, Spiritual
• Between Me and Thee - Silver

  Perhaps you thought
  words I work at

  40 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 10 9:24 AM 2008. In Angst
• A Godly Quiet -Silver

  40 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 7 9:34 AM 2008. In Adult
• Becoming Wolf -Silver

  cast mask
  plastered gauze

  29 lines, 4 comments, on Dec 13 12:31 PM 2008. In Spiritual
• Anchor Recast -silver

  I am lead weight cast,
  a guileless gutter ball, betimes,

  20 lines, 8 comments, on Dec 29 12:48 PM 2008
• Prior To Flight-Silver

  I put my hand to write
  but pictures get in my way.

  23 lines, 6 comments, on Apr 8 10:42 PM. In Spiritual
• Perhaps It's Just A Verb - Silver

  Perhaps she was meant to raise other people’s children,
  or her womb refused to sustain birth,

  38 lines, 8 comments, on May 9 1:19 PM. In Society
• Only The Strong Break So Wildly -silver

  She was strong as ice,
  cracking in the middle of Peace River

  14 lines, 11 comments, on May 15 1:58 PM. In Pain
• Undaunted Haunting -Silver

  in antechambers, full arched spine
  holding a heralded moment,

  27 lines, 6 comments, on May 17 4:26 PM. In Sad, Loss, Personal
• No Lust For Labelia - silver

  Who will tell my story if I do not?
  What pen will scroll the times of my life

  31 lines, 4 comments, on May 12 4:36 PM. In Creative, Personal
• Poetess Pounding Out Poems - Amaranthine Lover -Silver

  She is like a leap over a precipice
  into a surge of dangerous water

  35 lines, 8 comments, on May 20 11:54 PM. In Friendship, Honor
• Crushed -silver

  walking through a forest of feelings,
  I kept my eyes towards tough trunks

  35 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 13 8:20 AM. In Love
• Fall Into Linen -Silver

  Cool linen words
  after hot search for tip-of-tongue words,

  27 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 13 9:38 AM. In Creative Thought
• Missing The Mark -Silver

  He said:
  there are pictures in our sky,

  28 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 8 4:16 PM. In Sad
• Inanna In Me - Silver

  dark-browed moon woman
  renews herself in amethyst, agate:

  41 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 9 4:40 PM. In Spiritual
• An Anxious Husband -Silver

  I place a cornucopia of my harvest on a doilied table,
  light a candle beneath an incense bowl,

  33 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 18 1:12 PM. In Spiritual, Society

• By me, right now

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