Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Flashing Streets


 
 Flooring mouths towards Heavens change,
a mindless mess in gray short range.
Chance the spray of teasing, talk
evil chatter, past her balk

 Deep in a high, low-maintenance mansion,
leg work and passion; a game of her own shame
and someone to crash on.
Forward placement on the rinds too long,
alone in bags she sees her song.
Late to see the bleed in deed, a man in need,
of harsh concern who can hardly breath.

Melodies don’t ring, but hollow pen work sings
in men’s rooms dreams of sexy girls on glowing screens.
Golden scenes and blank board chalk-powder screams.
Policing pain, please print your name, an open heart is still a stain,
the wash won’t work for the monetary gain, one still remains, dents the frame half price morning, She was sold in vain.

  His seat more dusty and weak, looking back he sees the reasons she dropped her keys,
but doesn't feel the breeze of breaking knees.
Red, yellow, green somewhere between, he knew the feeling of flashing streets,
the lights repeat and light up the peaks. 
She’s praying under a leaky ceiling, with best intentions while she’s kneeling,
caught in the red room with the plaster peeling. that small room, lost, no more appealing,
There's no more hope, she's lost all feeling.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Explore

This is how we do Saturdays. We explore. We share Subway sandwiches. We browse farmers markets. We find water. We sit in the sun. We love and are loved.




Tuesday, July 10, 2012

50 Things That I'm Grateful For


I'm taking some good advice and making a gratitude list. It gets my creative juices flowing and helps me see the bigger picture.I don't think it's any coincidence that tonight I packed all of my daughter's belongs away and put them in boxes until she can learn to be thankful for what she has. She literally has two outfits, one pair of shoes, a pillow and blanket. So I too must continue my ability to be grateful.

I am grateful for:

1.) knowledge of a living God
2.) my healthy body that  makes pretty babies
3.) robin's egg blue framed mirrors
4.) camping in Idaho 
5.) air conditioning
6.) mother's of Eagle Scouts
7.) the Ensign
8.) hair color for $16
9.) the Articles of Faith
10.)the 10th Step
11.) cell phones
12.) tomorrow
13.) Michelle Weber
14.) Mam's pacifiers
15.) old photographs taken before I was born, but of people I know
16.) my purple wrist watch
17.) kombucha
18.) childhood blankies
19.) summer smells
20.) adjusting to really cold lake water
21.) homemade burp clothes
22.) little eyes looking at me while I nurse
23.) love notes
24.) chalk board-worthy inspirations
25.) yesterday
26.) Jenny Zoellner
27.) how my mother gets Saylor breakfast so I can sleep in
28.) for my husband's job
29.) night-time noises
30.) monitarily worthless guitars
31.) the Friend
32.) my majestic king, Jax (my dog)
33.) second, third, fourth, one millionth chances
34.) letting go
35.) holding hands
36.) whisker kisses
37.) fuzzy baby heads
38.) Saylor's voice
39.) care packages from Gigi
40.) needing to cry and being in the right place to do it
41.) a good laugh from pintrest
42.) thrift store shirts that make me feel pretty
43.) milk supply worth bragging about
44.) a sleeping 3 year-old
45.) soundtracked moments
46.) conference talks
47.) non-memember friends quoting conference talks on facebook from pintrest
48.) greeting cards
49.) the snack cupboard
50.) washer 'n dryer


Monday, October 3, 2011

Flight of the Sparrow

Coasting on the wind, fallen from the nest.
Caught in gusts and blows.
Foreign trees to rest.
Bringing all the storms, to every leaf and bough.
Songs stretched through horizon, feathering the now.
Drawing on the roof top, a breathless cry of pain.
Bullets of the cloud form, drowning in the rain.
Headed on to Ursa, tired wings still fly.
Fighting for the welcome,
of flocks above the sky.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

I am dreaming

    I am dreaming each day, that I can find my way.
Peace in my heart. I am here now. Things won't always be this hard. I am dreaming of a day when I can make breakfast with my favorite music playing. On that day I will be healthy. Things will be pretty. I will tend a delicate garden. I will pick fresh fruit and breathe fresh air.
I am dreaming. My daughter will go to school in a classic little outfit. I will have brushed her hair and kissed her cheeks. I will not worry. I will send her away to a happy little place where she has fun and plays with friends. I will not worry. I will not fight with myself.
      My heart will be open. I will work everyday to be successful in love. I will wrap my arms around my husband and kiss him....and he will stay. He will hold me. Together we will pray for the safety of our love. I am dreaming of a day.  I will chat with friends and neighbors. We'll laugh and joke and sing. I will share my smile. I'm hopeful of these things. I am dreaming I am dreaming. I am dreaming.
Each day I get older. "The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing
and in unstringing my instrument."
   I am dreaming of the chance just to be free. I want those times, admiration and affection. Freedom from a pain that self-indulgence sows. I'll share my freedom with everyone who knows. In my dream I will surrender, to all things honest and true. Even if their painful, even if their new. Acknowledgement enlightens my heart. Bringing healing. Always kneeling. I am dreaming of a morning so bright. I'm getting closer each day. I will find my pleasantries. I will wash away.

Monday, June 28, 2010

I fed her in the bathtub


Letters clinging to the tile
I let her sit and play awhile
Didn't want to clean again
So I fed her lunch right then
Spelled her name out on the wall
As she stood up big and tall
Heard the Bright eyes singing songs
She couldn't help but dance along
Yogurt bites from a little spoon
"Sit your bum down, silly goon"
Out of my mouth I'd never bet
"Please don't get your bacon wet"
Yellow flowers hanging wide
While tiny toes and arms are dried
Comfort from her favorite pony
"It's time to rest, my precious Lovey"