Sheer (poem)

Sheer

We fused thoughts

Gauzy, yet unveiled

Musing on biorhythms

And edges

Of convexing mirrors

In their sway

Here and there

Between worlds

©Expressions by Christine 12.30.16

First Snow in the City (poem)

First Snow in the City

Below sun-peeking white cloud tendrils,
The battle cry of an icy wind
Charges unrelentless through the streets
Besieging dwellings of the rank and file
Standing belligerent
Against the stark reality of gray--
Collecting the pummeling snow
In their eaves and shutters.
Frosty frigidity
Dusty and clinging;
These impenetrable fortresses of coziness
Unyielding
To the wrathful assault
Of first snow in the city

(c)Expressions by Christine 11/1999

It's All Ephemeral (poem)

It’s All Ephemeral

At the worlds largest antique store

I found Jayne, the poetess,

Inside the thin cardboard

Record album cover.

Her words

On typed paper

Celebrating snowflakes

From twenty years ago

She won awards, was published.

Something tugs inside

And I am unable

To throw Jayne away

So, she stays in my collection

Of moldering papers,

The turntable spins and sputters

Reminding me

It’s all ephemeral.

©Expressions by Christine 12.28.16

Release (poem)

Release

Blue skies rent

I reached inside the sternum

And pulled her free

Just a wisp

On the wind

With more to imagine

Breathing into her sails

On her voyage

Across a wide open world

©Expressions by Christine 12.27.16

Never Roses (poem)

Never Roses

Thorns stitched

Again and again

Edges defined in purpose

Blindly seeing

Her own garden

Devoid of roses

©Expressions by Christine 12.22.16

Alban Arthan (poem)

Alban Arthan

Cold and bleak

These long winter days

When sunlight dips and wanes

Ancestral strength

Counted on branches

While mistletoe clusters adorn

Awaiting the golden sickle

©Expressions by Christine 12.21.16

Tart (poem)

Tart

Supermoon mystique

Colluding and colliding

It’s said

You’re not really hungry

Unless an apple sounds good

So I grasp within my orbit

Yank hard

And take a sour bite

Chewing the juice

Until my jowls spasm

©Expressions by Christine 12.20.16

Dig Deep (poem)

Dig Deep

Almost listless

I dared to crawl again

Clawing the earth

Dirtying fingernails

A single seed burrowed

In fertile gray matter

By faith composted

I breathed a new genesis

©Expressions by Christine 12.18.16

Daybreak (poem)

Daybreak

Square room blackness

When around 6-ish

Above the window

A sliver of dim light appears

Highway traffic whirs

Dogs are roused

The sliver widens

And over sensitization begins

Inside my blanket fortress

©Expressions by Christine 12.17.16

Honor (poem)

Honor

During the applause

I scream,

I did that once

Or twice

Or thrice!

And no souls noticed

My glory

So I bow to my crumbling

Like the leaf,

Brushed away.

©Expressions by Christine 12.16.16

Hibernation (poem)

Hibernation

Solemn and sodden

She pulled her white blanket

To her neck, nodded off

And went dormant

Until spring

©Expressions by Christine 12.14.16

Jack Frost's Pen (poem)

Jack Frost’s Pen

Night-before snow twirlings

Gathered and etched with that frosty nib

An ephemeral fusion with sunlight

Rime of lyrics iridescently inked

A meditative fragile filigree

Dissolved in degrees

©Expressions by Christine 12.14.16

Powdered (poem)

Powdered

Sifting through surplus sugar

My mind makes Christmas concoctions

Drifts of snow

Against faded clapboard

White on white

White on gingerbread

Views of snowy hills

Through wrinkled window glass

And it’s home sweet home

©Expressions by Christine 12.12.16

Bah (poem)

Bah

Winter white blank page

Dimmed, if not dead, holiday lights

Senses attacked

By burnt-crumb flatus from the toaster

Feeling not much of a poetess

In fat plaid black with metallic strands

Old celery green fleece

And pillow flattened hair

On just one side

And all I see

Are these mirrored kohl circles

Begging for festive words

©Expressions by Christine 12.11.16

Fudge Espresso Brownies (poem)

Fudge Espresso Brownies

When the chocolate goes down

There’s wildness in the house

Dancing galore

Spilled beverage

Times Square kind of revelry

Right in my own kitchen

©Expressions by Christine 12.9.16

Illumination (poem)

Illumination

Chiming in

No one heard

Sometimes

They heard

And rolled their eyes

When I realized

My own style is light

And not sound

©Expressions by Christine 12.8.16

Gray to Yellow (poem)

Gray to Yellow

I asked for a fraction

Just a millisecond,

Using those magic words,

Pixels capturing

The rain and your boot;

A monochrome so long ago.

Now all those fractions in between

Lemons squeezed this morning,

Making hair concoctions

For my curls you pulled out

Last night in that frenzy.

©Expressions by Christine 12.8.16

Periodical (poem)

Periodical

The parchment

Where words were written

Photos meant forever

And calendars removed from their nails

And replaced again and again,

Through the years

Eventual fragments

Peeled, stripped,

Abandoned to the wind

©Expressions by Christine 12.7.16

Pathways (poem)

Pathways

One foot on black

One foot on white

An edgy balance

To let go and leap

Diving headlong

Into gray matter

Lines crossed and webbed

Along those neurons

A net of science

To rediscover

And be

©Expressions by Christine 12.6.16

Classic (poem)

Classic

I may be a deviant,

Apostate, bohemian

But I have Morgenstimmung

For breakfast

And Eine kleine nachtmusik

For dinner

And it is a most delicious life

©Expressions by Christine 12.5.16

Travel (poem)

Travel

When I go

About my way

I’ll pack my bags

In that suitcase

With the stickers from foreign places

And never look back

Maybe you’ll miss me,

Maybe you won’t

©Expressions by Christine 12.4.16