For National Poetry Month I have been twittering a tweet sized poem a day in support of #NPRpoetry. It is a fun challenge to try to capture a full poetic thought in less than 140 characters. Here is what I came up with for this past week. Enjoy!
Crumbs of life litter around us,
piled up dreams drift like dogwood
blossoms shaken loose by the sweeping
sudden thunderstorm.
My self-worth delegated to your discerning eye ages ago;
so practiced as to be mistaken for art, emboldens this
indifferent stare.
“Momma, color with me.”
Complimentary like crayons
we sit golden heads bent
hands left to left wrapped
in an Escherian embrace.
Ephemeral dancing waves of light
refract off tears that glistening glide
down baby girl’s peach flesh firm cheek.
I watch for her still
rolling encased in
her seaweed shroud,
as sea-born she’ll be
transmogrified
then redeposited
upon my shore.
She walked
past the halting
wave crash breaks
to the seaweed
swell;
then sank
in the sea
sway reminiscence
of hips undulations.
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