Drop by gentle drop this world is washed clean unburdened and made liquid light
Tag: free-verse
Home Stretch
We can go a long time each of us hoping that maybe if we hold on hold out, hold tight then everything at last will be all and right This is a lie we tell ourselves, each other Hope alone cannot get us home
Precious
This little precious life you have worried thin and sleepless tried to soothe but went forward limping until one day you sat and looked and understood that care for yourself was not selfishness but the precondition for every other love
Awake
Awake before an early-rising sun sleep-caught and lifted I remember the truth: this is the only moment
Peace
I purchase peace by what I give away each day deciding to be less unburdened so whatever the day the invitation comes soft or sudden I stand ready to welcome the life ahead
Stone
This beautiful stone dances on my finger though we are long past each other I turn and let it catch the light to remember what it was to hope for a future together
Spring
These green friends have had just enough light and air a trickle of water has kept them alive but not thriving what we all need now to spring forward is a good soul drenching
Tease
I see the way you tease your small nick draws just a drop of blood but I must tend and mend it with my soft tongue
Crush-Worthy
Entangled in every distraction it took you a good long time to notice how delicious I smell when we stand close how smoothly I move as I walk away how your heart adds beats when you hear my words thank goodness you have come now to your senses and realize at last I am, indeed crush-worthy
Weary
You are weary Let me assure you: all the care you have offered the tenderness freely given to friend and stranger returns to lift you now
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