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

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

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

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

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