"Race or Marathon"

Race or Marathon

We haven't even started.

I haven't even started

            spoiling you.

You haven't even started

            driving me to distraction.

Between chaste kisses

and not so chaste everything

else, I know, we haven't

even started.

"Start your engines."

December 5, 2015

prompt:  "let the moment begin" poem

"An Open Letter to the Universe"

An Open Letter to the Universe

Dear Universe,

I don't deserve this.

Thank you, anyway.

LOVE

Anne

December 5, 2015

prompt:  open letter poem

"Weather Report"

Weather Report

It's a dark and stormy night

not disputing that

rained all day

now the wind's kicked up.

But… the lights are on,

the heater's going,

music's playing on the stereo,

the Spice Girls.

If it blows any harder

power will go out,

I'll be in the dark.

Nothing new there.

December 5, 2015

prompt:  it was a "blank" and "blank" night

"Left Over"

Left Over

We live with what's leftover,

lessons learned or not,

after the divorce

after the hospital,

after hopes dashed.

We live with it

whether we like it or not

(we don't)

and try not to dwell

on what came before

on what constituted

a happy day

before all this happened.

I've had happy days

like sunlight in Hell,

you wonder who left a window open

and when it will close again.

You've opened a window in my heart.

Let the light in.

Let it in.

December 5, 2015

prompt:  leftover poem

"Life's Little Luxuries"

Life's Little Luxuries

Your hand on my hip

fingers stroking skin

in time to the music.

Kisses that taste

like pot and Listerine

all mixed together.

The taste of you

in my mouth

sweeter than wine.

December 3, 2015

prompt:  luxury poem

"On the Inside"

On the Inside

Like talking to the wall,

doesn't matter if I get

an answer back,

just an echo.

Like a bat finding my way

with sonar and highly

developed sense of smell,

bouncing off the trees.

I've spent so many

years wrapped in this cocoon

that keeps people out,

keeps me safe.

Safe no more.

Safe no more.

December 3, 2015

prompt:  echo