Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Invisible



Hope is a bright white page
filled with invisible ink

—delivery
by secret spy.

Your eyes widening,
your pulse quickening,
your heart literally skipping
          off the page—

as each letter, revealed,
is a dream
decoded,

an unfolding message,
you can’t believe is
for you.


© 2017 Jennifer Wagner



Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Enter Through the Window


Open Books:  A Poem Emporium
Seattle, WA
Photo © 2017 Jennifer Wagner


(About Poems)

Enter through the window,
not the door,
if you’re a poem.

Doors are so conspicuous.
You must be creative—

make me wonder
how you got here—

layered in metaphor,
side-smiled with simile

—surprise me,
even when just spoken plainly
from your heart.

As no doubt, even cerebral,
you are
all
heart.


© 2017 Jennifer Wagner



Also, I’m delighted to have three poems in Lakdi Ka Pul – II, The Poetry Bridge, An International Anthology by Twin City Poetry Club. 




Thursday, August 3, 2017

Flowering


“Consider the lilies, how they grow . . .” Luke 12:27.


They don’t need
to find themselves.

They just are.

They receive sun.
They receive rain.

They grow.

And when the smiling sun
turns, split-scorching what’s tender, what’s new,

and the thunderous dark and cursed rain
somehow gives blessing,

I will remember them and bend

and grow,
too.


© 2017 Jennifer Wagner