“Southern Rising” Live On MasticadoresUSA

snow lays reticent, a virgin blanket covers nature like a gentle quilt thick white breath journeys on through dated chimney stones black iron stove warms mama making flour bread in iron skillet tiny portions of salt pork, browns smell of fresh coffee clings to walls grits gurgle in pot, red-eye gravy sizzles in sauté pan, […]

Exciting News! “Hidden In Childhood: A Poetry Anthology”

Dear WordPress Community, Gabriela Marie Milton, Best Selling Author and owner of Literary Revelations Publishing House, just released the cover of the upcoming anthology. I am extremely proud and grateful to have two pieces included! If you have submitted work to be considered for this anthology, please be sure to check your email, and if […]

Please Read my pieces of poetry on I WRITE HER/ THE SHORT OF IT

Sadness Moans shooting pain lurches like a stranger in the blackest night where monsters live releasing their copies, swarming past, out of sight jealousy walks on rugged stones stealing from the gifted holding hands of small cactus plants until the desert sands are shifted behind their peering eyes a Judas runs to throw a stone […]

My New Poem “Red Poppy” Live on MasticadoresUSA

electricity surges from your auburn hairmen thirst for your flesh like a ripe pearsecrets warily etched in red ink on pillowseek wisdom from God’s weeping willow acquiesce to their tenders as you dareas Samson, strength births in your hairsecure your hopes, dreams, and poweroh exquisite poppy, you glorious flower To read the rest of my […]

My Dear Friends, I’m very excited to announce that I’m going to be included along with other fellow writers in the first anthology from “The Short Of It“! My two pieces, “Lost Love” and “The Lighthouse,” will be part of the new publication, “The Sound of Brilliance,” to be published in the next few months. […]

One With The Earth

Beneath the brown earth, roots connected to my red blood vessels talk to me of hidden sorrows. Lonely is the earth, weeping tears flooding the soil as the browns turn to shades of gray and black. Reaching my shadow voice, it pulls my heartstrings to the point of such tautness, my pores weep, for I […]

Plea for Grace

Poem Written by Joni Caggiano on 07/23/20 – Painting Courtesy of Birmingham Museum via Unsplash.com Open is my pounding heart as raw emotions; I do so often share Stunned by your compassion, God, for our love, hope, and prayer Intense your light, as on my knees Lord, You often find me there Like David to […]

Calabash Pipe

I walk through dark waters and study them turning memories to bloodthe full moon shines her dreamless side down, with disdain for the divinemoving into the shadows and the grays of night, with its cautious armstwo lovers lost their way, in the swamp, where the cypress grows into the airtattered pieces of white crinoline torn, […]

Stung

Magic wings of evening time, lost, a button droppedA silk tie lies upon the clock that abruptly stoppedFrozen bitter is my stare; I ought not have tarried thereIt was I who flew into our nest of love, to be fairLike a red ant your painful sting and blistering markOur moon blinked and sadly left me […]

A Visitor

Yellow legs plump with pollen movewith steadfast zeal to each snowy bloomOccupying her spring business by eyeingpridefully her beauty in the reflection ofmirror image rather than this star, a rare breedKnown for her salient clusters of scarlet berriesvivid male Bluebirds come to feast uponHer tangled web of thick branches heavythese hunted berries are a delicacy […]