Blooms of Spring

Claude Monet, Wisteria

wisteria vines

cling the trellis

and me, the hope of spring

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Carpe Diem, Wisteria

When You're Young You Don't Care About Appearances

dandelions are weeds they say

but to me they

are summer

and a fluffy snowflake

mixed-breed mutt who made a beeline for me

when i lay out on the kentucky bluegrass

of home

needing love

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

I'm pledging to be a little less grown up today--and to link up with those amazing poets at the dVerse Poets Pub for OpenLinkNight #90!

Easter Poem

of all the blueprints

and maps,

locations marked with a jagged cross,

i like the one where we intersected best

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

I celebrate Easter and if you do too, I hope you have a happy one!

To Thine Own

Public domain image

Like a rebel’s note

come Sunday

I chanted my mal arranged vow,

as expected of a good girl like me.

But I had to sing true

in my Salishan earthed heart, vesicles bursting,

knowing it would thrive again

if for now, manacled, 3 quarters dead,

to some other maid’s dream.

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

Hopping on board the dVerse OpenLinkNight train!

 

Poem of the Week

Thank you Sherry of Poets United for spotlighting my poem There Go I, Dancing Broken as poem of the week for your site.  It is an honor to have my piece be chosen and an honor to be a part of this community of talented poets!

Westport Beach

cherry blossoms and butterflies

get stuck in my throat

today, and every time,

a just right spring blows

the salt wind and dark wave

against my memory

and across my bare toes

to unbury thoughts of pebbles and sand

and running and laughing

and six year old you

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Andrew.  On a day like today.