Bucking Winter

spring horsetails

even john wayne

can’t tame ‘em

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Carpe Diem: horsetails.  Celebrating my 100th post, and since I am a cowgirl at heart this is perfect. :-)

There Go I, Dancing Broken

she said

she was drying out

and needed to get clean

i just held her hand

as she wept

holding her hair back

while she threw up

nearly 20 years

of the most hideous

and sobering regrets

and, like natural childbirth,

there is not much you can do

but be there

while she learns how

to nurture a new life beyond it

and remind her

even if you’re walking broken

you can learn how to dance again

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Laurie's prompt at Poetry Jam:  Poetry of Dance.  And for Poets United:  The Poetry Pantry.

Skagit Valley

Skagit Valley Tulips, image:  Wikimedia Commons

end of snow

tulips

inherit the earth

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Carpe Diem #144.  Every year about this time the Skagit Valley Tulips start doing their thing!

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.

City Park

City Park, Carpe Diem

across the pond

your lonely childhood

in an empty swing

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Carpe Diem Imagination #3