MagpieTales: Afloat Senryu

photo by Toni Frissell

Afloat or dreaming
With arms not touching ground, earth.
Worlds above drift by

© Gerry at Strummed Words

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Magpie Tales: Clouds

Clouds

Driven indoors by an unruly wind and a cloud covering the sun,
I wait for breath and stillness
A lack of motion
The sun's rays on my feet again.

- Gerry Young


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Superhero Woman

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Action Figures by Edith Vonnegut

Superhero woman
The angels watch over you
in your flip flops,
dangling a vacuum machine,
tripping over your cat
and toys on the stairs.

You manage through your days
Your sanity intact
and your hair wild in exhaustion
as you cast a lingering look
at the flame of promise
tantalizing in a cherub's hand.


- Gerry at Strummed Words

Magpie Tales: Shabby Blues

Fenced in all around
we hang our clothes away from prying eyes
our shabby blues showing only 
the perimeter of our experience.

-
Gerry at Strummed Words

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I Spy

photo by Elene Usdin

A spy, lying on the ground
She thinks I won't see her
As her eyes are so far down.

But I know who she is
She can't fool me,
Looking up my skirt

Talking in silent words
Of my face, my eyes, and
the hurt she hopes to see


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