Do you see what I see? The Tea of Poetry If my pen was the spout from which poetry poured I’d steep my words black I’d let them collect a potency of meaning in the belly of a cobalt blue pot I’d drop in a spoon a slight shiny curve with a looking glass handle […]
The days are small packed tightly together not much room for last minute changes I don’t like cruises I’ve never been on one I don’t like to gamble or get my hopes up about an afterlife or God I fear the waiting room where people cough and no one talks and there is no proof […]
January trees bloom icy white snowflakes Twinkling petals of starlight drift down Draping the ground in a misty bridal veil Pronouncing the promise of winter’s formal vow ______________________ Colleen Redman Shadow Shot Sunday
An empty boat A broken heart A sky to get lost in
A snowflake of moon drifting in December Makes a snowy ball by Christmas to roll across the sky _____________________ dVerse Poet’s Pub
A bell to ring in a temple of sky to guide the poets home _________________ Colleen Redman / dVerse Poetry Pub
A comma of moon in a story of sky punctuates the pause between dusk and dawn ________________________ Colleen Redman – dVerse Poetry Pub
In the Paris of night the moon tilts its beret while the stars wink their way to daybreak _________________________ ~ Colleen Redman dVerse poetry pub
Empty sheet of moon ripped down the middle from night’s closed notebook of sky ____________________________ Colleen Redman 10/21/12 dVerse Poets Pub
Leaves on trees bright flags in sunlight ride October’s fast parade Waving hands flash diamond facets Marching bands blow golden trumpets It’s a mirror ball of fall’s inaugural in praise of living a Sufi spin ___________________ Colleen Redman – dVerse poets pub
The moon last night looked like a headless pumpkin a rotting, light-filled jack-o-lantern Or a wheel of cheddar with a missing corner about to roll off the counter into night’s black abyss ___________________________ Colleen Redman / dVerse Poet’s Pub
A single plucked flower on a black lake of night floats in a garden of starlight ______________________ Colleen Redman 9/30/2012 dVerse poet’s pub
