Poem: Breathing

Poem: Breathing

She told you to take deep breaths –

throw a few minutes of air at your problems

and watch as they sink into the ground –

but you stretched your face into a yawn

and roared your deepest breath in her direction

in peaceful protest of her airy approach.

j.p

Poem – For Autumn

Spooky trees have lost their leaves,

And the breeze tousles my hair.

The smell of pumpkins drifts about

And sweetens the autumn air.

We gather with our mugs in hand

And sip warm tea on the stairs.

Your neighbor’s kitten watches us

From a nearby front porch chair.

Someone lights a cinnamon candle,

And we cannot smell from where.

Spooky trees have lost their leaves,

And we walk on autumn air.

j.p

Poem: Photo Album

Flipping through a photo album,

I watch myself flying through ages

As I flick through its glossy pages.

Sometimes your face passes me by,

Only to stay behind as a buried memory

On that wobbly paper, beside an old me.

This new me turns away from the glint

As lamp light catches your photographed eye.

My hand closes the book, as if to say goodbye.

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Poem: Solo

She danced around the room,

looking people in the eyes

as she twirled past them,

never meeting the same gaze

twice. In the flashing lights,

spinning late into the night,

she was untouchable,

her tears dripping like sweat,

catching light like diamonds,

slipping, unseen, to the ground

as she kept gliding forward,

spinning late into the night.

j.p

Poem: We

We are the waiting, the wandering,

The wondering. We are without

A trace, whispers in the wind,

Whistles slipping out from behind

Whiskery wisps of human minds.

We are here and there and wishing

For more. We are the ones who

Hope for worlds beyond, where

No one knows our names and we

Are free to wander and wonder,

And whistle tunes to each other

As we watch the days away.

j.p

Thank You and Weekend Queue

Hello, hello!

Thank you for all the support for this blog. It recently reached 2500 followers! Thanks for continuing to read my writing, and extra thanks for choosing to stick around for more.

I'm planning to post a poem every day this weekend. I hope that you find them worth reading. Thanks again for your support so far!

Best wishes,

j.p