Showing posts with label Hard Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hard Work. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Out West

 

Lilies sprout,

butterflies rise up from their petals.

A new blade appears,

shining in the dirt,

flint sharp.

 

The beautiful things

aren’t dead,

one says.

True, echoes another.

 

Did I hear that right?

 

But all I’m met with

are bright, cherubic smiles

thrown over their shoulders

one after the other.

 

I take their meaning.

 

Jump fences, barbed wire,

float on dreams

left swirling up from the dust

on the trail.

 

Switchblade the lasso from your wings,

dig those boot heels in, girl,

 

fly.

 

 

© 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

 

For Dora’s prompt at dVerse Poetics

 

Monday, April 15, 2024

Pellegrino and Lime

 

surrounded

by magenta petunias

and my friday night lights

 

it’s patio-perfect in spring

 

my footfall

and yours

tiptoeing

 

past the snoring

winter wolf moon

turned pink

 

—and the little clink

our glasses make

 

to toast

the sun-drenched, fresh

summer

 

we’ve palmed

of our lives

 

 

© 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

For dVerse Quadrille #199:  T.G.I.F.

 

NPM Day 15