Sweet and Bitter Stuff of Wonder
Brought to you by Mary K
what’s cooking
in that troubled forest
where the tree tops
touch the arms of clouds
and where shrubs caress
the ears of the deer
what’s cooking
now in their minds –
of those who try to read the sky
by speaking non-existing mouths
what’s cooking
will be laid
on the tray of truth
and eaten
anyway
© forestlove, 2012
Theme Thursday, March 15 – Season
***
It’s a sentence in a prison – every season.
Locked inside it you will find
weather, climate, temperatures that drop or rise.
Once it’s over,
with a feeling of relief,
simply step on forward
to the next dream of release.
***
Seasons change
and then again
You rearrange
your dress and habits
to suit the outside
with its measures
and bring about
all-seasons pleasure.
© 2012 Mariya Koleva
Image courtesy: Theme Thursday, March 15 post
One Single Impression – Betrayal; Poets United – Glass Houses; We Write Poems – Better out than in; Theme Thursday – Memory
* MEMORY OF A GLASS HOUSE*
I remember a winter
in a house made of glass
naked, numb, stupefied
–
I remember yearning to go
and get lost in the snow
But how would you know?
© Mariya Koleva 2011
Here are the prompts on which I acted: Sunday Scribblings – Messenger; One Single Impression – Epidemic; Poets United – Headlines; Theme Thursday – Face; We Write Poems – Almost a poem; Three Word Wednesday – Adamant-Fabricate-Peculiar
***
The messenger was adamant:
Those headlines had not been fabricated
And we were facing
A peculiar and epidemic poem,
Whose weirdest peculiarity
Was
That it was “almost a poem”.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva
Theme Thursday said “paper”; One Single Impression suggested “sarcastic”; Sunday Scribblings prompted “free”. A combination reads as follows:
*
A letter coming slow and late
Reading in a cold, sarcastic tone,
in fact, is license to be free.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva
Theme Thursday said Space; Writer’s Island said Secret. I combined.
*
A secret lies in outer space
concealing teasers to replace
the double-edged truth we seek
so we may bore ourselves to death in just a week.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva