Monthly Archives: April 2015

Luminous Ferocity By Julie Flanders You strip yourself To the photons At the center of your turbulence Quiet, quiet There is still a vague Disturbance You dare not name As you dance In the blue of an ancient flame Let … Continue reading →

Crude Awakening By Julie Flanders The blood of ancient creatures Spills From the split hull of a ship As the water darkens, curls its lip And a lone gull loses his way home We swim the oily coast And let … Continue reading →

Even Before Eden By Julie Flanders Somewhere in the corner of language Where the first sounds Changed by a fire Sent smoke toward the caves Gave teeth, tongue and song to human desire Rising up and slamming down In a … Continue reading →

Black Box By Julie Flanders There was no black box With your voice To tell me how it happened You were just gone And with you So many stories vanish To a horizon Past anything I can see I wish … Continue reading →

Mute By Julie Flanders Silence Is the emptiness where I hold you Without touching The forms such emptiness might take Or take away Forgive me for all confusions I am not sure if we choose them Or they choose us … Continue reading →

Poem for a perfect spring day. Lion’s Tooth By Julie Flanders This perception Is only mine Coming from me Coming to me Through time I am only as special As my time No more than a breath Of cosmos Of … Continue reading →

A beautiful Saturday. Here’s a poem for April 11. Eternity By Julie Flanders 4/11/15 Time moves in from the horizon Hungry For moments we have not yet lived The sky blushes The blood of a new day Into the pale … Continue reading →

Waiting By Julie Flanders 4/9/15 For all the things you are And are not You reduce yourself to something Immeasurable Too small to see Visible enough to disappear Yet present enough to suffer Your own absence Like air You are … Continue reading →

A Chance of Rain By Julie Flanders 4/8/15 I still care what other people Think But that’s okay We can still let the whole world shrink Around us Until it’s so tiny I’s just a speck in the eye Nothing … Continue reading →

We break from Haiku Tuesday today to continue our poem-a-day for April is Poetry month! In Case of Change By Julie Flanders 4/7/15 Quiet now The hush you need Is all around you Cut your ties And let yourself bleed … Continue reading →