Gray (poem)

Gray

Masterful balance

This thinking and feeling

A toe on each truth

Of yin and yang

Harmony within

Halves of a whole

My peace to gauge

©Expressions by Christine 6.30.16

Sodbuster (poem)

Sodbuster

Under that green patch

Plowed earth

Scarred and furrowed

Quite a spread

For this scratching farmer

Fumbling around

With a hoe

©Expressions by Christine 6.26.16

The Encyclopedic Life (poem)

The Encyclopedic Life

These hands unmaze

Truths and untruths

The pedigree

Of deep bruisings revealed.

Worldly words

My sacred geometry

Metaphoric

Of the hidden heroine

Within

©Expressions by Christine 6.25.16

Birdsong (poem)

Birdsong

This exposed nest

On it’s bare winter branch

Is offering all

Defensive twigs woven

Now flighted and enlightened

She’s gone

Gentle on the wing

High in the canopy

Birdsong amplified

©Expressions by Christine 6.23.16

Winded (poem)

Winded

I found

Our inspiration

Breathing in succession

Something hallowed

Rambling about the room,

The earth

This energy air

Conjoined

And here I am

Winded

©Expressions by Christine 6.22.16

Dawn of Eve (poem)

Dawn of Eve

Chastise my kink,

But I’ll be here

Coming undone

Worshipping the moon

And being whimsical;

My paganistic gypsy ways

Bangled wrists

And amethyst altar

Beckoning planes

In other dimensions

©Expressions by Christine 6.21.16

Unpraised Man (poem)

 Unpraised Man

About your quest to know a man

Consider all his motives

To those souls seeking innocence

Hear this undoing of his votives

A story-teller spins a yarn

Manipulation weave and weft

Collecting pieces here and there

The camouflage akin to theft

Then charisma charms the weak

Alas, deceit unfolds

Telling tales of angelic men

Toting their plates of gold

A magic rock will do the trick

Placed in a darkened hat

Hiding smirks with whispered words

“Scribe my prophecies!” he spat

Then gatherings were like a drug

Fueling the widened fire

As power clasped the hand of wealth

Call down the heavenly choir

An angel with a flaming sword

Would most surely do him harm

Lest the virgins would not submit

To him and all his charms

As glyphs were sold and glyphs were bought

A broad kingdom was at stake

Thus the deceiver was deceived

With finesse to expose a fake

Downtrodden lead throughout the land

Severing brains from hearts

Blistered hands mere busywork

Childlike burdens of their carts

Until at last the press was set

To unravel all perversions

For the thinking mind to think

And question all conversions

And so dethroned he sat in jail

The stolen tokens just a farce

A mob rose up, the man fell down

Founding members all so sparse

Until regrouped they soldiered on

The deception born again

So ask yourself dear followers

Whose belief you would “Amen”

©Expressions by Christine 6.20.16

Cognitive Dissonance (poem)

Cognitive Dissonance

Oh, the fairy tales

Of woebegones

The sanctuary

Of spirits gutted

With uncrossed arms,

Unsaintly now

Forever after smutted

©Expressions by Christine 6.17.16

Ink Joy (poem)

Ink Joy

If these scribblings had swag

A jotted invitation

Like lyrical silk

Festooned in celebration

My rosy response, pink as cheeks

Would be

A wink and a flourish

©Expressions by Christine 6.16.16

Finding His Magic (poem)

Finding His Magic (for Corbin)

Smoothing that page

Of false hieroglyphs

Those defiled ashes

A resurrected Phoenix

To transcend oneself

Conjuring

And drawing new lines

Flying his own

New-winged colors

©Expressions by Christine 6.15.16

Model Moon (poem)

Model Moon

Wanted to be lenticular

Lounging in that cradle

The one with the moon

And you there

Enraptured

By my phases

With your finger on the shutter

©Expressions by Christine 6.14.16

Just Breathe (poem)

Just Breathe

When a pen in the hand

Spills ink onto the paper

In multitudinous words

In multitudinous colors

Of red dirt and cerulean skies

When the envious alchemy you seek

Is the simplicity of just being there

Feeling the heat

Skin gathering the dust

Go there yourself

Write your own story

And just breathe

©Expressions by Christine 6.12.16

Tribal (poem)

Tribal

Reason embraces

Thoughts

And souls

Genuine affinities

Being

Three to ninety

Four-legged and two

Even the frilled florals

Transcend the garden edge,

Encourage my way,

And make my spirit full

©Expressions by Christine 6.3.16

Searching for Wild Strawberries

Another day

Another fruit for the basket

While I sit

Listening for the call

Of the mockingbird;

That middling on the branch

Who understands.

©Expressions by Christine 6.2.16

Snapped

He laughed

At her cartoonish snap

Until

The comic stripped down

No joke

Lines to circumvent

©Expressions by Christine 6.1.16