(A Follow Up to A Tale of Two Widows https://the-inner-child.com/2019/11/22/a-tale-of-two-widows) Reading time for this piece one minute and thirty-three seconds. Dark Crimson is mindfully mingling withthe full moon’s daunting and luminous light.As my clotting blood was slow to tricklefrom my slender ring less fingers tonight.An enigma of my existence to theMerpeople which I did so … Continue reading Merpeople
Category: Mother Earth
The Angel Oak
Giant was the fearless Angel Oak whose roots grew down deepWatered by God’s creatures who safely came to her to weep.Her massive and twisted branches lie softened in green mossTo ease the burden, she gladly carried with every single loss.She bore the weight of tragedy for hundreds of earthly years,Instead, she clapped and sang at … Continue reading The Angel Oak
Scorched Earth
Drifting in and out through the crying blackened bushRestricting airflow from seeking lung cells that pushTowards pockets of coolness and a nontoxic timeTo a land where the killing of nature is a real crimeWhere bullets and hatred don't govern the dayAnd children with asthma come out safely to play An environment where oodles of patents … Continue reading Scorched Earth
The Earth Cries
love brought a great stormto quiet the hate in allbringing hope and peace teardrops fall silentwhile the Amazon sleeps hotanimals cry out the youth demand changeto save the green planet earthand her water blue God's great birth of lifeis not ours to take awaybut one to preserve Haiku by Joni 1/2/20 From Wikipedia From Jan. … Continue reading The Earth Cries
Living Veil
A tapestry, of my life, woven of sorrows,desires, chance, and God’s truths.Individually threaded by many hands bothknown and unknown.Patterns weaved with wool, cotton andsilk fibers into many shapes withworn seasons distinctive and tender.Harsh years where dyes faded andunknown shadows mystifyingly emerged.Tints of indigo and sapphire were ablazewhere fulfilled durations of time existed.Skies met untainted lands … Continue reading Living Veil
Toxic Dreams
Floating leisurely in a sailing, solar-powered glass ballSearching intently for life over the harsh endless sprawl. Beneath me fine dust and a limb from a long-ago burnt tree,I was becoming frightened as my ball was close to the sea. Although colorless sulfur dioxide was surrounding me,The clean air in my bubble came with a cost; … Continue reading Toxic Dreams
Oak and an Angel
Sweat gently trickles between the aging tan skin of my breasts.Seasoned are the chambers of this heart that passed the test,Enduring each stage of suffering that came, for He knew best! Death took me not, for as a snowflake unique, He put me on Earth,Life forces surging, His spirit dwells in me, a few years … Continue reading Oak and an Angel
Once Treeless
Paralyzed by emotions, dismal visions haunt my eye’s memoryFaces in plates, probing hands of strangers, and the smell of pee.Fairy letters under wet pillow laid, hoping they will set me free. A veil of melancholy wraps me like a cocoon as dread is calling.Our neighbor plucks buckshot from the leg, her husband’s shot.The smell of … Continue reading Once Treeless
Salt Marsh
egrets rise softlymarshlands are quiet and stillfiddler claws rise up in protest of wastetiny fish eggs die alonesalt lands grow empty by Joni 12/9/19 Photo by Joni - Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
A Moment
mountains smile and weepthe sun played games with driverswater danced in pace Haiku by Joni 12/7/19 OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA - The Mountains and streams of Boone, NC
