dark roast
blending the
sunlight
—awakens my
smile
Copyright ©
2013 Jennifer Wagner
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Like Anna and Alexei
the lemon
and mint night
deceived me
with its fragrance
stronger, subtler than roses,
pink, and
blushing deeper still
i’m sorry,
i should
have listened to me
but my voice
went hush
when i heard
your words
and all i
could think about
was your
tongue
Copyright ©
2013 Jennifer Wagner
Peggy Goetz at Poetry Jam invited us to write from
the perspective of a fictional character.
I based my poem on the both tragic and captivating characters of Anna
and Count Vronsky in Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, and the attraction between them. I read the book a while back but have yet to
see the 2012 movie version. I’m curious to know if anyone has seen it and what they thought of it.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Not Everyone is Allergic
for quails in spring
a scotch
broom thicket
is moonlight
and roses
Copyright ©
2013 Jennifer Wagner
Sunday, April 14, 2013
To My Ancients
In that
dream,
before I was
born,
you gave me
your scars
because I
understood them.
I strive to
wear them, tell them
without
shame,
and I’ve
never changed my hair
even when I
changed my name.
Copyright ©
2013 Jennifer Wagner
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The Carbon Dioxide (of Poetry)
when all the shapes of dreams
flew by
outside your window
and you
couldn’t catch one
to call your
own,
when every
gnarly,
blighted
branch of
life’s undoing
rotted right
up through your soles,
those pieces
of poems called out,
laying dormant
in blades of nevermind grass,
for you to
crawl
across the
grit of unholy floors,
to find
grace through
time-smudged
glass
and see them
beneath the soil,
coiled
and waiting for
you
to breathe them
into birth
Copyright ©
2013 Jennifer Wagner
A sort of tribute to poetry itself, as it is National Poetry Month, and how poets are given poetry and with it the ability to turn pain into art.
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