Dryad

photo by Rosie Hardy

Come to the forest

Come when your heart is as full as the moon

and your desire blazes like a shooting star

Do not fear the sentries;

 they observe your entry

but ignore trespass

when intent is pure

Search out the message that I have written for you

in the trivialities of veins in the leaves

Read its significance

with your fingertips

You have always touched wood

wishing

I am waiting 

with your answer.

submitted for Poets United, Vice Versa #6

and Poetry Jam, Daydream Believers

Wild Woman Poet

2012 featured poet at
my heart’s love songs

I am so honored to be included this month as a featured poet on one of my favorite poetry blogs. Dani, at My Heart's Love Songs, has been diligently working to showcase some wonderful women poets, and she has graciously included my mouseness with these other rockin' ladies! Check out my entry as well as the entire series so far. You'll be glad you did!

And a big thank you and hug to dani!!!

Broken Glass

cigarettes and broken glass by viewfinder

I have learned to walk on broken glass

how to step lightly and quietly

I no longer cry out

when the pieces slice my feet

Shhh

Quiet now

I use the blood to paint

my nails a happy crimson for you

Watch me dance on

the shards

How useful are the scars

I can pirouette

as slivers burrow

into my toes

and I feel nothing.

submitted for dVerse Poets Pub, Open Link Night Week #52

Pondering Art

Jackson Pollock #5

submitted for Poets United, Thursday Think Tank #104, Jackson Pollock

and Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, A Word With Laurie-Demarcation

and for you film buffs, I highly recommend:

banksyfilm.com

This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results.

One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence.
By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters.