Showing posts with label Food with a Twist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food with a Twist. Show all posts

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Van Ghosted

 

They say there’s much you can do with

stale bread.

 

Panzanella, bruschetta, crostini.

Croutons, bread pudding.

 

How like spring,

new and fresh, it goes quickly,

 

and then, the blistering oven

of summer is here.

 

But, how do you salvage a poem, like sunrise,

so fleeting you can never seem to catch it in time?

 

Like manna.

Here and gone.

 

I saw it today, etched into the glass of a window

with an epitaph:

 

Your wings were ready, but my heart was not.

I see how it is. 

 

I glimpsed you briefly, soft-robed phantom,

boarding a train to somewhere else,

 

orphaned, like my last vanished poem,

not a breadcrumb in sight,

 

on into the starry night.

 

 

© 2025 Jennifer Wagner

 

Word Garden Word List

dVerse OLN

 

"Your wings were ready, but my heart was not." - Amelia Hutchins

 

When you just don’t jot it down in time.  Know the feeling?  Maybe it will return, when it, and I, am ready. ;)

 

Monday, June 16, 2025

Wooden Nickels

 

Honest Lee stepped out of a dime western—

wavy brown hair, chestnut mustache,

six-shooter on his thigh.

 

Not anybody’s prairie girl,

I knew which one of us was a lie—

even with his black olive eyes,

 

black as my lil’ ol’ pea pickin’ heart.

 

 

© 2025 Jennifer Wagner

Photo © 2025 Jennifer Wagner

 

dVerse Quadrille:  Honestly

 

Sunday, April 27, 2025

New Kiss

 

Forget the old—

 

there’s no time

like the present,

and no place

 

like the honeycomb-home

of your lips.  Lick

those ruby reds—

 

meet mine, glossed,

sugar-frost

-ed,

 

and salt me

with your wizardry

of bliss.

 

 

© 2025 Jennifer Wagner

 

Poem-A-Day 27:  title a poem “New (blank)”

Poetic Bloomings:  write a “Forget (blank)” poem