Sunday, June 22, 2014

tilt the semi-axis (in cinquain)


Glasshouse at Chihuly Garden and Glass – Seattle, WA
Photo © 2014 Jennifer Wagner




ice cold
lemonade—the
kind to make you pucker
the scent of fresh-mown grass, ahhh it’s
summer


© 2014 Jennifer Wagner


Just for fun for Poets U (Midweek Motif:  The Longest/Shortest Day, Solstice and Poetry Pantry).  Happy Summer!

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Scrapbooks and Fireworks



Summer’s kisses past
are in my dresser—

caresses pressed
between pages
like petals.

A thousand moonlights
are in my closet,

and wished upon stars

s          p          r          i           n         k          l           e

s          p          a          r          k          l           e          s

in a box on the shelf.

But summer nights,
and moonlights,
and stars—
like night lilies,
like fireworks,

are best
in their living,
bursting
moment

like you,

here & now, owning
me

with more than just a memory.



© 2014 Jennifer Wagner

Thursday, June 5, 2014

a word is just a word is just a world


photo © 2014 Jennifer Wagner


who knows
what may come

what may grow
from an open palm,
a seed pearl
missing,

slipped from its shell
into dark fleshy loam

sweetness?  light?
drought?  blight?

who knows
what may come

from paper to lips

both dust
and sugar bowls
                           tip

to the tip,
to the tip,

from word
to poem
the ink
is drunk
or sipped

and a new world jewel
sprouts

honeyed
and/or blue

but
it’s up to the reader
what
it
will
do



© 2014 Jennifer Wagner


This is for dVersePoetics - Seeding, where Shanyn invited us to imagine our words as seeds. 

She makes the point that “Words have power, but like seeds, we don’t often get to see what goes on beneath the surface and can only observe what is growing after it comes out of the soil.”  I am too late for the link, but here is my offering.