Friday, February 5, 2021

 

                                              This beautiful valentine heading created by Linda Law 


PKP's POEMS FOR THIS YEAR'S CHALLENGE .. 




I hold the door open -until 

you safely pass in your chair 

dignity earned


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once whirled a ten storied library 

believing could, should, inhale, mostly all...

Not nearly.


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colossal crash-you lay 

limbs splayed in hallway - 

a lifetime passed

until you move


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beyond hurt, shock, pain, 

the minutiae of mess, rises

the magnitude of missing 

You.


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I will sit with you by still waters 

my breath quiet, calm, 

even -

When .


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I shall be your sponge drinking in each drop 

you rain, soaking never saturated


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I shall quietly seek your needs and fulfill each in anonymity -

as universal intervention


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I shall leave your spit on my face 

feel the rivulet as venom recedes


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once I strode confident in all I knew 

until I slipped -

into your shoe


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I trace your hands cobalt veins 

fingering but a fragment of 

all they held


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I leave writing desk - lock the door - 

adjust mask - carry carton of food -

there


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Your ways are unfathomable and 

I am but a wader in unknown depths -

wondering


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The time for stiff upper lips’ softening 

is as they part in unmistakable recognition


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we sit - a circle chairs spaced wide apart 

eyes bright above masks jumbling  possibilities


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From cinders rose 

an invisible murmuration -

floated o’er that crowd 

a rumbled - Never Again


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Hate tickles the fancies of some 

while others are busy planning dances - 

hold on


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from grievance to gratitude 

a persistent barefooted walk

mindless of gravel - eyes on 

horizon


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