Death Throes by Jack (Poem)

“Knucklebones”,
He laughed
Amid tossed Hexes and voodoo
As Death dragged on by its Achilles
Kicking and screaming
Refusing to surrender
Inside these pale and peeling walls

Every crooked midnight
Trading melancholia for soothsayers
Soothe-wanters
Soothe-takers

Wretched wits for cobwebs
Donned like forlorn hairnets
Never giving a day longer
But steeling so many away

A haunted spectrum
Between the grays
And the shades
Woeful souls
Dancing on whispering curtains
Playing the game.

© Expressions by Christine 10/27/10

The Burden (Poem)

Your eyes sparkled
And I watched
For reactions
Between and back and forth

As your giddy hands
Presented her
With the crystal vase
Stuffed with Godiva chocolates
Tied up
In cellophane and pretty scarlet-colored ribbons

And “Oh, after I eat all these
Yummy chocolates,
I can put the gorgeous vase
On my mantle”
Wide lipsticked smile – Wide lipsticked smile
Laughter – Laughter
More smiles

Right next to all the other
High-priced fakery
I assume.

When you turned for my gift
Your eyes went sparkle-less
And yes, I am not the excitable type-
Plain paper removed
My obvious thrift store purchase
Feeling like
A burden
That I don’t know what to do with

I weakly smile
As fake as the high-priced fakery
On the mantle
And squeak out a thank you

Not excitable
And not exactly stupid either.

And we all turn
To get on with our happy lives.

© Expressions by Christine 10/22/10

Patchwork of Miles (Poem)

Distances posted
With momentous markers
We are belted in and driven
Toward this off-the-beaten joyride

Along the way
Fast pedal to the floor
Patchworking colorful escapades
Convertibled, chromed, and windblown

©Expressions by Christine 6/23/09

She Releases Her Angels (Poem)

Eyes closed
I listen

With a whisper
And a hush
She releases her angels
To pirouette in the wind
To flutter
And find their place

To make sweet the wind
For a season
And an infinity

We are one

©Expressions by Christine 2010

Autumn Rushes By (Poem)

Autumn,
I need you

You come and go
You maneuver around
With your warmth
And light
And explosions

Until one day
You acquiesce
And in walks
The hoary bearded thief

And I mourn.

©Expressions by Christine 2010

You Fill Me Up (Poem)

As gentle as yellow
You fill me up
With expressions of here and now
Then and there
Cautious and carefree

Simply -as what was seeded here-
I see you as you
And me as me
Reaching our heights
Mind to mind
Eye to eye
Ear to ear
Tongue to tongue
Heart to heart
And creatively metaphoric
As petals to stamen
In a crazy rush of summer wind

I gather you.

©Expressions by Christine 6/3/09

The Choosing (Poem)

Like a jailer

He tried to figure out
Which key
Opened
Which heart

Digging
Through souls
Is such a dirty business


©Expressions by Christine 2010