Ambsace (Poem)

Ambsace

Life’s journey

These symbolic lessons

Circle and fold back

To open and divide

Quests for knowledge

And turning points

Hinterlands to inner peace

Always within sight

© Expressions by Christine 7/31/11

Nothing Personal (Poem)

Nothing Personal

Devoid of humor

Another Vulcan

In a deadpan

We shared

A stiff kiss

Foretelling

Your kiss of death

© Expressions by Christine 7/30/11

Shining Thoughts (Poem)

Shining Thoughts

Epiphanies

Out of date

Turned

State of the art

Edisonesque

Aureately spiral

Labyrinths

Yet to discover

© Expressions by Christine 7/29/11

Another Season (Poem)

Another Season

Things are sizzling

Waking up in seventy degrees

Watching earth steaming up and out

A hazy shade of green

All the while

I think back to January's chill

When days were hoary

And I could rest my weary head 

On the chest of Jack Frost.

© Expressions by Christine 7/27/11

Wizardry Uncloaked (Poem)

Wizardry Uncloaked

Potion brewed and corked by wizard

Eye of newt and tongue of lizard

Bottles aplenty in dark ferment

Awaiting spell and wry consent

Mantic vision to chart a course

Tip of staff, a touch, a source

A swirl of smoke quick as silver

Garden ritual, herbs to pilfer

 Scrying future in ball of glass

Through haze-filled orb his eyes do pass

Questing alchemy cooked in books

Foretelling ends right as rooks 

Repeating chant of single word

Turmoil steeped and energy stirred

Upswing of wand in final breath

Enchanting all, til death, til death

© Expressions by Christine 7/26/11

The Day We Met (Poem)

The Day We Met

Somehow

That day

For the first time

In my life

I expected nothing

I wasn’t clinging

To a dream

Or a star

Or the world

On a shiny platter

But there it was

In the bottom

Of that gift bag

A handsel

A token of our love

And there you were

Embracing my heart 

Heroically

In your hands.

© Expressions by Christine 7/25/11

Body and Soul (Poem)

Body and Soul

Atlas flaunts

Somatic zenith

Psyche communicates

Cerebral fullness

Body and soul

A package deal.

© Expressions by Christine 7/24/11

Mushroom Blush (Poem)

Mushroom Blush

Lurking in bottommost forest depths

Amongst viridescent moss

I see your cousins,

Iridescent tops glistening

Catching slivers of sunrays

Then in my ambling

I see your erubescent cap

Sprouting from dead leaves

A flirtaceous dash of color

As nature answers

© Expressions by Christine 7/23/11

Strategic Vows (Poem)

Strategic Vows

Friendly allies

Eventually-
Weaknesses examined
Breached

Flanking maneuvers
In surprise attacks
Drawing incessant lines

Angry regimental law
Rejecting détente  

In cross-armed defiance

Hostile enemies

© Expressions by Christine 7/21/11

New Moon (Poem)

New Moon

New moon
Seeking light
Seeking a place
Wandering desolate
Discerning dark dearth
On the fringes
Of earth

© Expressions by Christine 7/20/11

A Real Shoo-in (Poem)

A Real Shoo-in

With his old tennis shoe

Mired in the muck

Wriggling created 

An ugly zugzwang

The one option

Presented itself

As a brief playful transaction

Between our young eyes

Slight movement

Left or right

Caused the suction

To burp out a deep groan

And then a long stretchy

Sluuuuuuuuurp

Clean foot extracted

Our smiles

Lulled into temporary relief

Knowing the fate

Of his father’s wrath

As we skedaddled

Through fields of cut hay

Toward home

© Expressions by Christine 7/19/11

Door-to-Door Sales (Poem)

Door-to-door Sales

Eyes crazed and hollow

And with spittle

Forming at the corner

Of his mouth

He shouted his Bible-thumping sermon

Through my window

I stared blankly

Deer in headlight apprehensive

As if making a move

Would cause

His self-perceived canonical flakiness

To claw its way

Through glass

And fling me down to hell

© Expressions by Christine 7/18/11

Twisted Sister (Poem)

Twisted Sister

Spinning here

Spinning there

Heads whipped round

With twisted flare

Looking ‘round

For that sound

Where that torque

Is heaven bound

© Expressions by Christine 7/17/11

Hanging There (Poem)

Hanging There

Taken aback

Stomach lurches

Unsure

Compelled to look again

To confirm horrors

Disbelief

Hanging there

Bloated, yet deflated

Sorrowful

Seeking signs of life

Abject fatality

Unreasonable

Head bowed

Apparition exposed

Solace in realizations

© Expressions by Christine 7/16/11

~haiku~ 2

Haiku 2

Vulcan for a  day

Vanilla in galaxies

Apodictic Spock

(c) Expressions by Christine 7/15/11

Grandmother's Farmstead (Poem)

Grandmother’s Farmstead

Poetic, isn’t it?

Bushels divided

Into rhyming sequence

Of color

As wagons roll

Journeying into town

In sweet metre

Exchanging tender

For nutriment

In the marketplace

And now-

The passage of generations

Sharing usufruct

Where raspberries ripened

And corn tassels

Waved their hellos and goodbyes

© Expressions by Christine 7/14/11

Give Her Potato Salad! (Poem)

Give her Potato Salad!

I type stuff

For a living

Well, medical stuff

Records to be exact

You know,

Your personal information

That goes in the charts

I type the office notes

I type nursing home notes too

Sometimes I laugh

Sometimes I cry

Sometimes I shake my head 

And sometimes

I know what tests

The doctor will order

Before he gets to that part

That makes me feel pretty smart

But one little old lady

In one of the nursing homes

Only asks for potato salad

She screams that she wants

POTATO SALAD!

I find that amusing and sad

At the same time

But damn,

That lady has gumption.

© Expressions by Christine 7/13/11

Wavering (Poem)

Wavering

On some days

The view from up here

Is approachable.

I am able

To assay with similar questions;

Seeking the runoff,

Finding solutions,

And flowing on downstream

To distribute answers.

On other days

The view from up  here

Is unapproachable.

I simply want to jump

Not to my death or injury,

But to simple answers.

No giving or taking

No division of knowledge

Accountable for my guilt

On other days still

The view from up here

Is irresponsible.

I want to be amused

Throwing sticks and stones

Creating a little havoc

Watching the splash

And resultant

Lackadaisical drift.

On all these days

I have found

I am a wave in motion.

© Expressions by Christine 7/12/11

One Trig Pony (Poem)

One Trig Pony


Sharp-dressed men are all around

Puttin on the ritz

Three-pieced as they stroll downtown

Amongst the filthy rich

Lifting a sleeve, checking the time

To three-martini lunch

Middling trig encounters prime

Numbers left to crunch

(c) Expressions by Christine 7/11/11

Skylark (Poem)

Skylark

Your brown wings carry you

Soaring in heights of blue

Yet I still hear your sweet song

And it carries me along

Oh, I’m so far away

I wish that I could stay

Studying your daily flight

To be always in my sight

So lingering I’ll smile

Across these many miles

As in a childlike spring

“Alouette” to sing

To my friend in feathers

Resting there in heathers

Your song will ever seem

A sweet sound in this dream

© Expressions by Christine 7/10/11

Refinery (Poem)

Refinery

Seeing the abyss as deep and wide

Tumultuous thoughts whirl inside

Clawing for freedom on falling rock

Grasping for keys that might unlock

Cleanse this dark soul and make it pure

Embracing patterns  right and sure

In finding peace I’ll sublimate

And with healing balm ameliorate

© Expressions by Christine 7/9/11

Girl Talk (Poem)

Girl Talk

Sometimes in the comprehension

Of being there now

Of having been there then

On being female

And sharing those

“Yes, I know” moments

There is a hushed

Patois

Reserved only for us

© Expressions by Christine 7/8/11

For Caylee (Poem)

For Caylee

I understand justice

And reasonable doubt

But this senseless death

Coupled with the resultant verdict

Has left me

Wordless

Hopeless

Stunned into

A futilitarian sulk

If only whispers-

Could swell to a shout.

© Expressions by Christine 7/7/11

All Built Up (Poem)

All Built Up

Trowel in hand
You mortar it thick
Building blockades
Stonewalling
To quell your desire

Your undoing-
My unharnessed feminine wiles
Swinging
Like a wrecking ball
Through a fortress

(c) Expressions by Christine 7/6/11

Stitched Up (Poem)

Stitched Up

I have heard all your lines
Saw them
As woven words
Used threads
And nothing but
My junk aporia
Grasped
As paltry pocket lint
To offer back

And you,
A weak essay on guilt
Step up again
Stitching needles in hand
With mere hems and haws
Fabricating half-truths

© Expressions by Christine 7/5/11

Girl Style (Poem)

Girl Style

Thinking back on these things

At the point

Of suffrage

Beyond wearing the pants

Is a long way to go

And incomprehensible

To have a voice

To be heard

To gather all of these

Is

Another salute to freedom-

Girl style.

© Expressions by Christine 7/4/11

I've Seen These Places (Poem)

I've Seen These Places

I've seen these places
When the sun goes down
And wanting
When the strings of bulbs
Are lit
And the mixed drinks
Spill out into the night
To drink some Jack,
Feel the bedlam swirl inside,
And dance on tables.

(c)Expressions by Christine 7/2/11

Slipping Through (Poem)

Slipping Through

Collapsing

Falling back

I spin by that dream

Trying to hold

Deciduous light

Slipping through my fingers.

Like your face in my hands

And that kiss.

© Expressions by Christine 7/1/11