Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts

Thursday, December 14, 2017

An Invitation


Photo © 2017 Ian Wagner


Poems
are not safe.

They’re risky.

If you take one for a walk
you might start to think differently
about life, or death, or something,

and you might not like thinking

differently.

What does this mean, you say,
as if I need
another question
I can’t answer . . .

and so avoid the poem
and the heart of it.

True poems
have one
no matter what they tell you—

a poem is a creature
ready to pounce
or lay at your feet
licking your toes—like life

—hungry,
waiting,

and not so bad after all.


© 2017 Jennifer Wagner


For dVerse OpenLinkNight…and an invitation to check out the new dVerse Anthology, Chiaroscuro, available on Amazon (I have a poem in there, too).

Monday, February 27, 2017

Shroud


Photo © 2017 Jennifer Wagner


Each season has its own offering.  Spring buds.  Summer glows.  Autumn colors.  Winter shrouds.  In winter, we hold contradictions up to the waning light, swirl them round the glass, sip.  Our losses are bettered in this reflection, when we can begin to see what good comes even after the fissured earth cracks again, when what remains softens, fills.

how silent now
this path strewn with jagged stones
a softening of snow


© 2017 Jennifer Wagner