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

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

The Day We Met (Poem)

The Day We Met

Somehow

That day

For the first time

In my life

I expected nothing

I wasn’t clinging

To a dream

Or a star

Or the world

On a shiny platter

But there it was

In the bottom

Of that gift bag

A handsel

A token of our love

And there you were

Embracing my heart 

Heroically

In your hands.

© Expressions by Christine 7/25/11

Body and Soul (Poem)

Body and Soul

Atlas flaunts

Somatic zenith

Psyche communicates

Cerebral fullness

Body and soul

A package deal.

© Expressions by Christine 7/24/11

A Real Shoo-in (Poem)

A Real Shoo-in

With his old tennis shoe

Mired in the muck

Wriggling created 

An ugly zugzwang

The one option

Presented itself

As a brief playful transaction

Between our young eyes

Slight movement

Left or right

Caused the suction

To burp out a deep groan

And then a long stretchy

Sluuuuuuuuurp

Clean foot extracted

Our smiles

Lulled into temporary relief

Knowing the fate

Of his father’s wrath

As we skedaddled

Through fields of cut hay

Toward home

© Expressions by Christine 7/19/11

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

Wavering (Poem)

Wavering

On some days

The view from up here

Is approachable.

I am able

To assay with similar questions;

Seeking the runoff,

Finding solutions,

And flowing on downstream

To distribute answers.

On other days

The view from up  here

Is unapproachable.

I simply want to jump

Not to my death or injury,

But to simple answers.

No giving or taking

No division of knowledge

Accountable for my guilt

On other days still

The view from up here

Is irresponsible.

I want to be amused

Throwing sticks and stones

Creating a little havoc

Watching the splash

And resultant

Lackadaisical drift.

On all these days

I have found

I am a wave in motion.

© Expressions by Christine 7/12/11

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