Street-Heart

This is so calming. I might just do one every time I am need of a smile.

Here's the link if you want to give it a try and make one of your own:

Why is this so satisfying, though? Thanks for the tag, Maddy @torrentialmonsoon 💗 It made me smile today.

In the movies, there's always this ringing silence after a big explosion. We survived the devastation, of loss after loss, all the fears and near misses, but stayed stuck in that silence.

I've learned that someone drowning cannot be a lifeboat for someone else. You wrote me from the road, said you were driving to stay afloat.

I've started to write again. I'm noticing life again. My skies are softer now. The light stays longer now. I hope wherever it is that you are now is lighter and brighter too.

-T.C. (2023)

you have no idea how much

I am always on the cusp of wavering;

fighting against my swimming nature

is this urge to seek you out.

Just once, I want to be reckless. Let me be

stupid and selfish. I would dive head first

into this thirst, wreck myself

against your mouth

despite knowing how this ends.

nothing more than metaphor

already receding, leaving

no footprints on the shore.

ingenious arrangements and elegant slant rhymes. The waves of quiet reflection struggling violently against the receding tide. Show me the phrase

that turned the page upon itself and in its contortions, somehow breaks open to reveal what it means to strive. I want poetry

with intention, heroic feats of linguistic invention that compel me to pause and pay attention to this moment, and what it means to be desperately alive.

sun drenched steady thrumming

the hum of a thousand bees

come to rest upon

her soft and her enclosures

flutter open and still closer

as if in answer

to anther and stamen

wrapped and enraptured

snapdragon captured

-T.C. (2023), response