Thoughts Have Wings

  Though flames took sky and melted clouds to shadows dripping over trees the moon took on the daunting task pale and scarred from years and years of pulling oceans to and fro she drug herself once more to shield our burning eyes from star shot heat a darkness sweet would cover us in daylight [...]

I read the words and sucked in a breath and then thought about that breath did you do the same as you rounded the point and saw the ocean stretched out in front of you until it fell off the edge of the earth felt your heart race and the sea air wash over you [...]

  there is no air it has been sucked out by the world by the whirled smoke of a thousand burning buildings by the raised eyebrow of the man down the street by the grains of sand on the beach that no one walks on by the broken heart silent and dark beaten, not beating [...]

there was a time when I was huge big as the world I filled the sky years go by and as each passes I become less and the world shrinks with me and more and more I find myself lost inside my head dreaming   NaPoMo 30 Poetic Asides prompt: fading away   Not happy [...]

I am unarmed Except for words Naked in the storm I wrap them around me For warmth on this night Lightening flashes Reveals one thought Thunder shatters me And the thought splinters Into pieces like raindrops Like diamonds, like glass hail stings my skin and bounces All around my feet Steam rises fro

I have a problem with time it is linear and I am not I rebound from what caught my attention five seconds ago and bounce back to the present with a smack that shakes me to my toes and leaves me confused seduced by a shiny thought then ducking back into the shadow to dream [...]

the trouble with writing prompts is that they can inspire lead you down foreign roads of brain grooves unmapped navigating rapids and canyon surfing verbage as you hold your arms straight out for balance …and fall anyway because the heart does not understand gravity and sometimes the poem skips a fe

There is a blue Uncommon intensity Laid next to buttery glow Of lamplight anticipation Evening out all the sharp edges Of a day as dark cars ease down Lanes of eateries and shops Lit to entice To excite and lure With the promise of Holding off a night http://www.winterparkpaintout.org/imagearea/Morg

Artist unknowing Becomes art Becomes landscape fodder For a hungry brush That speeds across time And space With no other thoughts Than light, shadow, color Dip, stroke, show Don’t tell (shh) Sneak up from the side And you can almost catch A wind tossed Sky Through rustling green http://www.winterpar

there is fire on the lake tonight the mist is tangerine and heavy with smoke I breathe it in as though I could exhale the sun dipping into shadows of purple the coolness mocks the sky my feet want to wade in the blue but I am rooted on the shore afraid to burn waiting [...]