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

A Quadrille.

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. 

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