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Monthly Archives: April 2021
FIREBIRD
Oh—If someone would just come for meSomeone kindAnd ever caring You know I never give upStaring outInto the ashesLooking for signs of hopeRisingPast my disappointmentsAnd compromises This is the ritual I’ve devisedTo keep me believing I’m wiserThan those foolsWhose tears … Continue reading
THROUGH THE MOTION
Bread falls from the skyAnd a voice breaks through the quietOf your third eyeUntil you can weepYour blessings cannot multiply This is the strange mathematics of lossYou grow from what you take awaySubtraction makes the deeper addition The chair across … Continue reading
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Tagged April, April is Poetry Month, Beauty, Bread, Emil Adler, Favorite Poems, Grief, Julie Flanders, Marina Belica, melancholy, National Poetry Month, october project, October Project Music, Poem, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Spring, transcendance, transcendental
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DROPS
PurseWomanStrollingCurrentAs cementCrushesMy earsOnOne sideSpellsMadnessButHeartStringsThe wholeSequenceClangsMelodyInThe invisibleSprayOf moleculesBrokenIntoBy pastChallengesThe dustTriumphsThe otherEarBlendsTo hearThe blandTrumpetsMutingDesireChoirsOf nothingChoirsOf everythingSimplePasturesRidingPoniesOf lightHoovesOf your febrileTangentsTo smashTonightThe other earWill dropDropDropInto silentVestibules © 2021 Julie FlandersApril is Poetry Month Day 28
PETIT FOURS
In my mother’s kitchen nothing matchesThere are broken thingsThe washing machine, stoveThe oven doors and their latchesThe table is round and oldAnd there are corners of dust and moldThe cabinets have overflowedAnd dishes stick out here and there My mother … Continue reading
ASLEEP IN THE HANDS
I sit and look from my windowOnto the streetThrough bars that disappearInto a blurry mazurka of traffic I went to Chopin’s house onceIn Paris, not Poland I always imagined him lonelyWhen I felt his musicMoving through my handsImagining a world … Continue reading
IN SPITE OF THE DAY
The rain drumsSporadic staccatoYour breath is softRubato As the morning isForgottenWe lock eyesWith our screensWe become servantsOf our machinesWe are absentAs the winter sunLeans into sunset I thought about deathUpon wakingI thought about howLife on earth could simply beBreath-taking Why … Continue reading
IN THE MIDST OF THE WATERS
Silence fills the nightAnd night fills the silence You see nothing but bloodOn the horizonClose your eyesLook for peaceIn the pieces that are leftIn these beautiful ruins I will love you no matter whatIf the sky fallsAnd you are crawling … Continue reading
3rd ANNUAL OCTOBER PROJECT POETRY CONTEST
Our Annual Poetry Contest is underway! Due to an influx of submissions, we are only accepting up to 3 poems per poet at this time. Thank you for your interest! Please send a poem you have written to octoberprojectmusic@gmail.com before midnight on Thursday, … Continue reading
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GRANDFATHERING
GRANDFATHERING We circle inwardQuietly on our ownBelying the power of the energyThat sighsAn internal cyclone Each of us moves along slowlyTo mitigate the haste, the urgencyThe panic we face You remain buoyant, happy, gracedA balloon in the windYou do not … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, apocolypse, April, April is Poetry Month, digital, Emil Adler, energy, Favorite Poems, grandfather, Grandmother, grandparent, Julie Flanders, Marina Belica, meme, National Poetry Month, nurture, october project, October Project Music, Poem, Poetry, Poetry Foundation, Spring
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