Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
Brought to you by Mary K
Some more summertime poetry I wrote on notes and retrieved much later. There were many floods last summer, lives were lost and people remained homeless and poorer than before.
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The Floods Around These Parts
Plumbing towards correction
Crawling before the heart
of silence and dead impunity
Plumbing without awareness
Beyond the forest license
and thumping hearts.
©2014, MK
Process notes? Not really. Who can say what it means, or what caused this? I can’t. Just read. Enjoy. I hope you can.
Melodrama
Death is not easy
Unlike melodrama
Silence is heavier
than hot teardrops.
©MK, 2014
Note about the image. I really like it. I often use images by artists on the Deviant Art to accompany my poems. I can only hope the words do them credit.
Summer is a difficult season for poetry, in my experience. I write just scanty notes, scribble them here and there, because I hate to see the computer and there’s no time to sit at it for hours. So, in September, I suddenly remember those notes existed and start sorting.
Here is a haiku that I obviously wrote in mid-August.
Solitude
When you are trying
To catch yout own breathing
and arrest your heartbeat.
(c) 2014 MK
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Sinking instead of floating
Growling instead of singing
But when I look in the window glass,
the outside hides its grass.
Blinking instead of goggling
Crawling instead of prancing
But when I open my shabby purse,
the inside chills my pulse.
© MK
