Showing posts with label Margo Roby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margo Roby. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

On Learning How to Fly



 wings indigoblue


Expectation can grease you down hard
You forget about things
Like wings
And when you try to remember, the ground
Seems strangely sticky
With strings

We are too young to be old too soon
And fold our dreams
Up tight
Faith can feel over-sized ‘til we rise
Above the fear
Of flight

© Janet Martin

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Breaking News...paper Walls



 Margo invites us to try an 'opposites attract' poem.

Book-knowledge
Is ignorant
In matters
Of heart
Where
Silence
Thunders
With weighted
Emptiness
A newspaper-
Thick world
Apart

© Janet Martin

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Sh-h-h



Sometimes speech
Is too heavy with word
When face-to-face silence
Is more readily heard

Best, good intention
Clatters from lips
…we can move mountains
With finger-tips

Darling, forgive me
When words are too much
For the heart, hungry
For nothing but touch

Friday, January 16, 2015

...In That Fog is Low-lying (an Exerpt from Wikipedia)

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This photo was taken in December when we had almost a week of fog!

The term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying...wikipedia
A Wikem is a wikipedia poem. Also linking to Margo in fog-enshrouded Atlanta.

The earth is small.
A bleary shawl
Soft-wraps each croft and street
Where villagers shuffle
Through a gray-purple
Low-flung sheet
 
Morn's murky air
Shrouds a thoroughfare
That yesterday was loud
With proud pull and push
And the full-color rush
Of life's everyday crowd

Now, dawn is a dirge
Morn, noon, night merge
In slow-moving, solemn cortege
Where the low-lying knell
Of a cloud that fell
Covers bowed heads

Janet~