Monthly Archives: May 2016

Gifts

Posted on May 31, 2016 by janemwoodman

I grow everything I can bushels of words smoothed into shapes with gilt edges pile up in corners waiting for someone for someone’s hand for an eye, an ear a heart to hold them. Gifts cannot be themselves until someone … Continue reading →

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Sleep (love sonnet for my husband)

Posted on May 31, 2016 by janemwoodman

Silky touch of peaceful spirit falls all feather-soft as fractal-rich dreams call to sweeten darkness, brush away all fears, kaleidoscopic vision of dreams nears. Thus sweet disorders range throughout the night, eliminate confusion from daylight, let clarity command the thoughts … Continue reading →

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Time and Love (sonnet)

Posted on May 31, 2016 by janemwoodman

I choose which image I will focus on: That ragged wisp of cloud, soon burnt and gone Or red-tail hawks in swooping pas de deux– Creating flights of life – from old, the new. My hands grow weak; my back, … Continue reading →

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Japanese Iris (haiku)

Posted on May 31, 2016 by janemwoodman

Japanese Iris: butterflies floating above breeze-blown green sabers

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Apology

Posted on May 20, 2016 by janemwoodman

I pour it all into the ground these days, Ideas, images, and words together; The sonnets, free verse, haiku–all displays Of feeling go elsewhere in warmer weather. First feed the soil–just as I first awake My senses to the world, … Continue reading →

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Why I Get Frustrated with Him

Posted on May 16, 2016 by janemwoodman

Skim all the beauties, virtues of all righteous men compressed into one– He’ll say, “I’m only a man trying to do what I can.”

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Song of the Perpetual Gardener

Posted on May 16, 2016 by janemwoodman

Come Spring-sun, come! Warm these hands! Soiled-stained, the Gardener stands, Reaching high and bending low, Working as the cold winds blow. Petals are a pretty sight– Full-blown flowers in bright light Decorate each hot July, Wrens sing then and bumbles … Continue reading →

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Love Lies Sleeping

Posted on May 15, 2016 by janemwoodman

There lies on his face, as he sleeps soft, open-mouthed, silver beard wreathing, the very lightness of love in every guise it can wear.

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Heart of Night

Posted on May 14, 2016 by janemwoodman

Dive deep down now… inside the blackness into the heat of extinguished suns where the night and beauty are one. This softness like no other embraces us with tender filaments rocks us to sleep with slow soft heavings that rush … Continue reading →

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Hi.

Posted on May 14, 2016 by janemwoodman

Welcome. Merry meet. Salve! Ça va? To my new readers, thank you for being here with me. Just seeing that someone reads and sometimes likes what they read makes the effort to share worthwhile.

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