Snap To It (Poem)

Snap To It

I see these things

Everywhere

Documenting life,

Lives,

Memories

Nature’s beauty

And the like

I too

Have taken photos

Through my eyes

Cataloged

In my mind

But sometimes

They are unveiled

And paraded about

Not because I like them

But pixilated and loomed

For others to see.

© Expressions by Christine 8/30/11

Earthly Aesthetics (Poem)

Earthly Aesthetics

She wanted
To beguile him with camouflage
Gray on gray
Subliminal cairns
Marking the trail
To her heart
So theirs would be
A geological evolution
Erupting and transforming
The landscape of love.

© Expressions by Christine 8/29/11

A Smiling Day (Poem)

A Smiling Day

It was a good enough

Day

Starting at 5 a.m.

With morning

Kisses

And then

Eating bacon and eggs

Cooked by the best chef

Evah!

Wishing my daughter

A happy birthday

As she came down the stairs

Looking cute and disheveled

As a nineteen-year-old could be

Counting my blessings

As storm clouds dissipated

For me, and yet,

Praying for those

Who are losing it all

But

Buoyed again

By that healthy

Nineteen-year-old

As we ate at Quaker Steak and Lube

And a son who tomorrow

Will be starting his freshman year

Of college

As a senior in high school

And now

Sweet desserts

Oreo sponges floating in milk

And a photo in Explore.

Yes, it was

A good enough day. :o)

© Expressions by Christine 8/28/11

Catching My Drift (Poem)

Catching My Drift

Lying parallel

We dream across

Pillow-soft wavelengths

Passing shared surrealism

Back and forth

And climaxing

In the rhythmic poetry

Of inspiratory and expiratory

Then softly waking

To the tangible truths

Of our creation

© Expressions by Christine 8/27/11

School's In (Poem)

School’s In

Horizons vast

This journey is yours

Each plateau

A mile marker

Celebrated

With shouted hoorays.

Open-armed

And welcoming more

Forever climbing.

© Expressions by Christine 8/26/11

Step-stone Bridge (Poem)

Step-stone Bridge

Granite sentinels

Pose as stepping stones

Markers

Posted as reminders

Toppled igneous cairns

Only a jump away.

© Expressions by Christine 8/25/11

The Fastest Way (Poem)

The Fastest Way

Following you

I used to

Longingly watch your movements,

Proclaiming

To the up-and-down motion

Of the hitch in your gitalong

That one day

I would fllirtaceously trace

The edges

Of your back pockets

And getting from A to B

Wouldn’t seem so far away

© Expressions by Christine 8/23/11

Pale Bouquets (Poem)

Pale Bouquets

Supplication to thee blue moon

For your mystique

Creates woodland ghosts

Pale bouquets gathered

To soothe the hobgoblins

© Expressions by Christine 8/22/11

In the Wilds (Poem)

In the Wilds

I may seem

Aloof

At times

In a quagmire, but

These are the places I go to

When you see me run aground

In an apparent lack

Of concentration

I use both sides of my brain

All the while

Sliding sideways

Tilting

Relaxing

Listening to solitude

Venturing unknowns

Floating

In nature’s pool

In the wilds.

© Expressions by Christine 8/21/11

Acadia (Poem)

Acadia

Waking and wandering and

jackets drenched with sea-salt drizzle

we climbed

pink granite mountaintops

finding the first light of day

coupled with rushes of breezes

whispering our secret words

 instead of shouting them

- exhilarating

Scattered with blueberry bushes

low – we tasted your earthiness

and the abundance of your shores

potted and boiled – red

gliding on a fork through butter

- ambrosial.

Words repressed

views too sacred for utterance

on lake shores

drifting with  morning mists

these scattered fragments

- I’ll remember.

© Expressions by Christine 8/20/11

Cirque de Soiree (Poem)

Cirque de Soiree

Collecting natural Venn

Our vision interlinked

Like those before

Kaleidoscoping volition

With simple complexities

Algorithmically come-hither

Scrimmaging for surface tension

© Expressions by Christine 8/19/11

Oceanic (Poem)

Oceanic

Like waves

She rumbled through grasses

Riding the currents

With her shutter

Always searching

For rushes that fit

 © Expressions by Christine 8/18/11

Illuminate Me (poem)

Illuminate Me

Waiting-

I dreamt of us

synchronizing our light

filtering through

these curtains

When that first night together

we matched touches

as fallen veils

lips no longer unobscured

by hush-hush words

© Expressions by Christine 8/11/11

Museum Quality Glass (Poem)

Museum Quality Glass

Dark corners are best
Only observed
Collecting dust and stuff
like relics in museums

I saw the Hope Diamond
Behind glass
Yet its glistening brilliance
Failed me
Unlike a discovery
In a back roads
shack. A dirty window cracked
A piece that has stories
And hallowed enough
To be photographed and left
untouched.

© Expressions by Christine 8/10/11

Alliterative Alignment (Poem)

Alliterative Alignment

All aspects
Assembled
Assigned repose
As pieces in perfect puzzle
Awaiting abutment

© Expressions by Christine 8/9/11

Epitaph (Poem)

Epitaph

Exploring houses
Glimpsing in closets
I see wispy shrouds
Left behind by reclusive
Web weavers
And sifted cinders
Surrendering grayness
In stone hearths

Exploring forests
Scattered remains
Murmur a dirge
From last summer
Their lacy skeletal leaves
Attesting to the fragile collision
Of life
And touch

© Expressions by Christine 8/8/11

Seventeen Times Two Plus Thirteen (Poem)

Seventeen Times Two Plus Thirteen

Thinking back
On these moments
I thought I knew
It all

Life passes
As if a dream
Being forty-seven
Still climbing this wall

© Expressions by Christine © 8/7/11

Gingerly, I Go (Poem)

Gingerly, I Go

This is the part
Where I’m left out
Stopped by signs
Unintended, but real

To boldly go
Or remain
In stays
Straight-laced
And enslaved?

© Expressions by Christine 8/5/11

Insignia (Poem)

Insignia

Symbolic disclosures

Illustrating intention

Exacting wealth

Behind crossed swords

In treasure chests

Waiting to be discovered

And guarded.

© Expressions by Christine 8/4/11

Little Runaway (Poem)

Little Runaway

These dirty streets

No place

For proper parallels

Of purple and lavender

To be ran away from

And discarded

Like an unoccupied soul

© Expressions by Christine 8/3/11

Girls Scare You (Poem)

Girls Scare You

In Glenhaven Elementary

The library had biographies

Women who made a difference

I read Helen Keller,

Clara Barton

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Then there was some blah blah blah

About girls wearing dresses, not pants.

Amelia Earhart;

She wore pants.

All the while

Brainwashing continued

Narrowing of views

Pushed into ruched submission

Sitting pretty.

When Madonna

Came around

Very much unlike a virgin

I bet that freaked you out

With her cone boobs

Demanding to be noticed.

Then the message:

Women’s lib was a no-no,

But Playboy was okay.

Damn that elementary school library

For putting ideas in my head.

© Expressions by Christine 8/2/11

Clothesline Photography (Poem)

Clothesline Photography

Scrolling through these pages

I see many black and whites

And wonder if it should be Polaroids

Hanging to dry on an outside line

Instead of yesteryear Instamatics

Whatever the cliché case

Give me digital megapixels hung

With rainbow plastic pins.

© Expressions by Christine 8/1/11