The Forest of Despair

Artwork by Chelsea Bednar

You do not want to enter this forest

Though I have dwelt here forever,

I still do not know it

Its labyrinthine trails lead in circles

or straight to nowhere

Time does not follow rules here

Minutes last for weeks and yet

years disappear in a second

Sorrow hangs

like a wet wool blanket

from the limbs of trees

which have never seen the sun

You do not want to enter this forest

I am beyond rescue

I have lived so long in darkness

that I have forgotten how to even hope

for light.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Artistic Interpretations w/Margaret
and
mindlovemisery, Prompt 3, Stigma

Alarm

Acrylic by Chelsea Bednar

Pulse

Pound

Blood beat 

vessels nest

Sizzling

synaptic traps

Engorged

organs

Migrant mass

trespass

Mass havoc

cells swarm

Alarm

 
submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Artistic Impressions w/Margaret

Song of Oshun

Yasmin Hernandez, Yamaya y Ochun, 2003

Daughter of the Waters

Cerulean goddess

Your beauty shimmers

Chandelier crystals windowpane refracted

All the colors of life

Beneath your surface

Shine fairy wands

Flamboyant, joyful

Phosphorescent

A galaxy of playful stars

Fallen from the sky

To scamper among the fishes

Moon crochets a blanket

Of swells upon the wet

As you inscribe love poems

In the sand.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Artistic Interpretations with Margaret, Chelsea Bednar's artwork

and d'Verse Poets Pub, Open Link Tuesday (too late for Poetics, Interactions!) 

*this poem was written from a list of words provided by my daughter:

chandelier, fairy, scamper, shimmer, inscribe, flamboyant, cerulean, playful, windowpane, crochet (thanks so much for the inspirational words, Allison!)