#tip-toe

ah, thank you so much, kind nonnie 💛

I hear silence in the deepest dark

as it tip-toes on padded feet

carefully stepping around

the fractures of my mind

not making a sound

as it leaves me

as quiet

as can

be

©Vivian Zems

(#nonet)

Real Toads– Fussy Little Forms

He’d never seen anything quite as exquisite, his palm meeting hers. He thought maybe it was the way she laughed, or how she tip-toed through each puddle, He couldn’t say exactly what it was that made her glisten. There was something about that visit, that made him never want to leave.   A writing prompt: Write a poem using all of the following words: exquisite, visit, glisten.…