Boundless ~ Three American Sentences

 

Beautiful, YOU Are, by Magic Love Crow

My frayed wings fly an ink sky where inspiration defies gravity. 

Delightful Donkey, by Gina Morley

Tenacity keeps me moving forward even when I wear stone shoes.

Carnival Dreams, by Shelle Kennedy

Trust your heart’s vision when romance is a shadow dance across the moon. 

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Poets and Storytellers United ~ Weekly Scribblings #45

Ebony Unraveling of Ink ~ American Sentence

 

Ebony lines transcribe the crow thoughts hatching on the tip of my tongue. 

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Word Crafters Prompt

Firefly Candle ~ American Scentence

 

A candle flame that can’t breathe will succumb to the strangle of darkness.

© Susie Clevenger 2020

The Sunday Muse #133

Changing Seasons

You were a cold December wind I left to search for my August moon.

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Poets and Story Tellers United ~ Weekly Scribblings #40

 

 

Seeing My Truth

I won’t carry your words to the mirror.

There’s no room in the silvered glass

for the twisted input of your reflections.

©Susie Clevenger 2020

WordCrafters

Waking Up from Anesthesia

Drinking champagne to forget

is like trying to love without feeling.

Pressing a broken heart through glass

won’t stop the bleeding.

©Susie Clevenger 2020

The Sunday Muse #115

Pillow of Fire

June arrives with its kindling

and I wonder how long I can

daydream in flames before

summer consumes me.

 ©Susie Clevenger 2020

Inspired by Word Crafters Prompt: 

 Frederic Leighton's painting "Flaming June"/ the heat of summer

Splintering

dreams in broken glass

time travel of silent wounds

hiding in mirrors

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Weighting Trust

The madness of intimacy

is pouring your soul

into another’s heart

and trusting it will

keep your secrets.

Once the nightingale sings

it no longer controls the music.

©Susie Clevenger 2020

#napowritmo2020 Day27

Inspired by: #skyloverwordlist - intimacies 

Real Toads April - 2020 - Day 27

Grave of the Moon

I am the sea

where you buried the moon…

the salted wound of a dying wish.

©Susie Clevenger 2020

#napwritmo2020 Day 20

#skyloverwordlist - salt

Real Toads - April 2020 - Day 20

Pressed Against Glass

april beckons hope

may will bloom with open arms

closed palms mourn empty

©Susie Clevenger 2020 

#napowritmo2020 Day 19

Inspired by: #skyloverwordlist - beckon

Real Toads - April 2020 - Day 19

Song of Shadows

I want to lie in moonlight,

float mulberry shadows,

and listen to Keats nightingale

sing me closer to the stars.

©Susie Clevenger 20120

#napowritmo2020 Day 13

Inspired by: #skyloverwordlist - lie

Real Toads ~ April 2020 ~ Day 13

Vain Supplication

A murder of sullen prayers

smudges the sky with tantrums - 

dark rosary of vanity.

©Susie Clevenger 2020

#napowritmo2020 Day11

Inspired by: #skyloverwordlist - sullen

Real Toads ~ April 2020 ~ Day 11

Color Feminine ~ American Sentences

Her cranberry hair tumbles to her waist in secrets and temptation.

He tested the limits of a raspberry blush until he reached thorns.

She’s cherry lipped impudence and August heat melting ice from his winter. 

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Poets and Storytellers United Weekly Scribblings #8

Never Far From the 60's ~ Music in Me

Rebellion was Joplin and losing pieces of my heart to a crush.

Love thought it wanted freedom until rainbows became empty echoes.

Some people born to wave the flag believed peace came from the biggest gun.  

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Poets and Storytellers United ~ Weekly Scribblings #7 ~ This Is a Tribute

Insect and Soul ~ Tanka

cicada night song

echoes through my stone pillow

the shrill crying fills

empty spaces in my soul

stars candle our communion

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #115 Transformation~ A Stone for a Pillow

Dark Toast ~ Poetry Sentences

The month of April delivers muddy boots and knees that can predict the weather.

Pain leaves us with memories rewriting sunny days into an American Horror Story.

A book takes me away from dirty dishes that remind me dinner could have used a better cook.

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Poets and Storytellers United ~ Writer's Pantry #5

Haiku My Heart ~ Raven Sky

raven afternoon

feathered invasion of wings

paints coal across sky

©Susie Clevenger 2020

haiku my heart

And So It Begins ~ Candlelight Troiku

a new year

rising from wild seas

a few stars

filling

the glass with candlelight

champagne

© Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)

a new year

appears on my calendar

worn days refurbished

rising from wild seas

I look to hope

to bring me freedom

a few stars

write their exclamations

across the moon

©Susie Clevenger 2020

filling

idle hours

with memories

the glass with candlelight

warms shadows

I’m afraid to enter

champagne

and a toast to forgetting

walks me away from pain

©Susie Clevenger 2020

Carpe Diem #1804