After the Thunderstorm Night

 

Fir0002/Flagstaffotos

 

When you

look at me like that,

as if I’ve hung the paper heart moon

with artistic hands,

a lavender morning mists softly

against my skin, each cell brightening,

stretching toward a living,

growing new day.

All I want is to breathe,

to breathe in this sky of moment, deeper,

to feel each evolving hue as it rises

like milk and sugared tea on my tongue;

to hum my birdsong notes

back to you,

and your arms

of encircling sun.

© 2013 Jennifer Wagner

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”  -Rose Kennedy

for dVerse OpenLinkNight 

The Carbon Dioxide (of Poetry)

when all the shapes of dreams

flew by outside your window

and you couldn’t catch one

to call your own,

when every

gnarly, blighted

branch of life’s undoing

rotted right up through your soles,

those pieces of poems called out,

laying dormant in blades of nevermind grass,

for you to crawl

across the grit of unholy floors,

to find grace through

time-smudged glass

and see them

beneath the soil, coiled

and waiting for you

to breathe them into birth

 

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

 

A sort of tribute to poetry itself, as it is National Poetry Month, and how poets are given poetry and with it the ability to turn pain into art.

for dVerse OpenLinkNight

 

Maybe She's Shy

crimson grapes, image:  public domain

there’s a musical

note

on the back of her tongue

never sung

but it tastes

like vintage pauillac bordeaux

if you let her

do the talking

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

*The wines of Pauillac are rich, full bodied and tannic, while gracefully combining elegance with power coupled with complexity.  They have the ability to age and evolve for decades. It has been said the best Pauillac wines taste like “An iron fist in a velvet glove.”  The Wine Cellar Insider.


For Grace's Sunday Mini-Challenge:  Poets in the Kitchen at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
and for the Poetry Pantry #141 at Poets United.