Spectre (poem)

Spectre

She signed out of life

Took a step towards death

Smothered the candle

In darkened space

As the graveyard grasses

And colorless curtains

That entombed her deathbed

Felt the murmur

Of her final exhaled breath

©Expressions by Christine 10.31.16

Woodman (poem)

Woodman

A skeleton without a soul

You’re occult

And your muse

With the red velvet hair

Comes out of the shadowy trees

And hides

Between the whispers

Again

©Expressions by Christine 10.29.16

Feminine (poem)

Feminine

The cadence

Of her nudity

A ruckus of constellations

Out of reach.

Hockneyed melodies

Out of tune.

Celebration of the ambiguous

Out of touch.

Maybe this is where

He draws his lines

And pushes buttons.

©Expressions by Christine 10.28.16

Delineation (poem)

Delineation

From those days

That sun rays

And bits of sandblasted skin

Were momentary corrosives

My corrugated brow

Artistically manifests as a footnote

Embalmed with the aromatics

Of an Indian summer

And laid to rest

©Expressions by Christine 10.27.16

Helix (poem)

Helix

When in this cosmic swirl

Fibonacci rules

Strands of creation

Shared with Mona Lisa

And those Venus Boticelli curls

Mirrored, I see

My silver nimbus

Simply celestial mechanics

©Expressions by Christine 10.26.16

Mighty White (poem)

Mighty White

These sketchy imaginings

Journalized in monochrome

A canvas primed

The rhythm of your unfathomable hues

Perhaps stippled or slathered

Splashed in the colors

Of panoramas and minutia

A gifted poetic sequence

Painted and hung.

©Expressions by Christine 10.25.16

A Sensitive (poem)

A Sensitive

A mere emergence

And the world is contentious

In the clickety clack handmade

And remorseless lying

I’m recoiling in definements

Of unknowns and knowns.

When realized

A life without oaks

And their surety

Would be meaningless

©Expressions by Christine 10.24.16

Woodland Blankets (poem)

Woodland Blankets

These muddled legends

More than corner shadows

With the vantage of backlighting

It’s simplicity is seedlings

Briefly

Canvassing the mountainside

Eventual

Flannel and ticking

Succumbing on the loom of life

©Expressions by Christine 10.23.16

It Matters (poem)

It Matters

Beyond pining

Some devilish knowledge

This inherent fluency

A reclamation now

Of mellow particles

There. Here.

Our timeless amalgamation

©Expressions by Christine 10.21.16

Manzano Music

We played wild tunes

The blade and the cup

To woodland gods

Bandied about

Different, yet the same

That was before

We saw the view

And then the music was gone

©Expressions by Christine 10.18.16

En Masse (poem)

En Masse

Each and every

One

Enough of these emotions

Ruling and abrasive

Binding

Like a tight scarf

Waiting for a neck

And winter’s remittance

With her bitter bark

©Expressions by Christine 10.14.16