Month May 2017
Shades #maypoeticwings #poeticwings
Needing to Break #maypoeticwings #poeticwings
At the corner of my eye, I saw a depiction of shadows
Dancing in canvas of heavy colours….
Heavily laden bodies
Needing to break
A need to touch
To feel
To release
Their hearts rekindled
Bathing from each suspended moans
Souls needing to transcend
A slow heavy sensual burn
Their bodies in
Liquid perfection
Merging in soul delight
That chases the insipid air
Now full of sweet disarray
A volatile mixture of flaming desires
©Entirety 2017
Because sometimes my mind goes there #poetry #grief #loss
The place between life and death
Not the beginning and end
But the prequel to the long goodnight
Where I ponder
What lays between the lines
How it feels
How one thinks
If life flashes
Or slows like a train
Arriving at its station
Wishing for what
Or naught
Giving in or giving up
Finding absence
Or community
In the hosts that have gone before
Who have walked this path
But never come back
To reassure those remaining
I can only guess
Horrifically hope
It is like that space
Between awake and sleep
Where the drifting is comfort
And the warmth of going under
Overwhelms
Sometimes I think on these things
Out of wonder
Curiosity and even fear
For this journey skips no one
Not poet, family, friend or foe
And I ponder on the space between
And pray
Love is there
©Entirety 2017
…for my bestie, who grieves…
It’s Just Not #Mayfalls
It’s not the castles
On a hill
It’s the stones
That were used
To tower above
It’s not the uneven surface
Of a cobbled road
It’s the patterns of history
That weaves in between
It’s not the words written
In ink
Or those spoken aloud
It’s their intent
It’s that I find meaning
In the parts
That make up the whole
Without missing the view
And feeling the grace
Or contempt
Of how it all began
It’s not the chaos of colours
I see
But a spectrum
Of who we are meant to be
Amidst writing
Our own stories
©Entirety 2017
Open to Air #mayfalls
I’ll let the air ravage my open heart
Set broken mornings
To stone
And let life breech
The wounded edges
So blood can run freely
©Entirety 2017
Glass Hearts #mayfalls
For the jars he kept
Captured waves
Of glass wings
Memories
To the loves
He buried
In the ocean of his soul
©Entirety 2017
So Much More Than #poetry
We are so much more
Than the walls of our hearts
The vessels for our lungs
Or the day
Which hides our light
We are beat
We are breath
And we are brilliant stars
That bring life
To the night
©Entirety 2017
Photo unsourced, found on tumblr
Life Doesn’t Do Stagnancy #mayfalls
Photo found on Pinterest
It was too late
For anger & apathy
Spring had sprung
And cold soil warmed
Causing tiny fronds
To grow
And life just knew
It could never stand still
Inside a glass case
Of stagnancy & hate
It’s just not
How it was made
©Entirety 2017
Bending to Beauty #mayfalls
The day ends
And both
Love and lilies bend
Bowing to the moon
Giving way
To what its pull
Has in store
©Entirety 2017
Photo by Christine Amat
Entirety in Bits and Pieces 