Fluent In Loss

Poetry in Politics is not new; neither is Politics in Poetry.

Abraham Lincoln said in a speech:

 "I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."

“I stand as a witness to the common lot, 

"survivor of that time, that place,” wrote Anna Akhmatova in 1961.

If the twain ever meet

Will it be a 'twain wreck'?

© Fluent In Loss

Vomited secrets from the mouth

Of a river, dizzy from its whirling

Waltz, echo in Prevarication Canyon;

Will you ever forget how it goes

When you are singing the next verse?

When the house you exit will not?

When the “cats cradle” is nothing

More than tangled finger-strings?

Stacked plates made of paper

Mache in a calm, blue sky where

The finger pointing at Adam, who is

Thirsty for forgiveness in this

Thin-layered, cheap concrete world,

That locks him behind a door

Thick with the sins of the father,

Warns him not to look back.

Give me your tired, your poor laundry,

Your glasses half full of photos, and

Claim your life tastes like moths

Clinging to life after they crash and burn;

Clearly you lost Honey’s moon; you’re

Clueless so just pull the muzzle over the

Clownish Crows Cawing because the

Back of your hand brushed my doorknob.

Mimi Wolske

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(painting #1 no title by Fred Calleri and #2 Milk Run by Fred Calleri)

Just A Place To Sleep

From the NORTH to escape the icy cold to claim the desert southwest as their winter home, the sunny place where no one bothers to shovel sunshine in the winter.

©Just A Place To Sleep

I’m hiding down here

in the vacation trenches

trying to latch onto

a piece of higher ground

(ground without the prickly,

wound-causing cacti)

and those larger avocados;

eating salted genealogy

while bits and pieces

of time slip by;

grabbing the rope of hope

immersed in chaos—it's like

a Dostoyevsky passage,

or paint on a canvas

about life in a

retiring trailer park

by surrealist Ernst,

or a magic wand

carved from wood of holly

(hooray for Hollywood);

I continue to contemplate

the possibility of

one more taco

with jalapeño sauce

and maybe one more

glass of sangria.

Mimi Wolske

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Blood Rushes To My Head

Aristotle said that love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies. A Love Poem is actually a message of love. It doesn't have to be long; when a lover makes blood rush to your head, heartfelt, honest words can be incredibly special to the person receiving them.

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."  Victor Hugo

© Blood Rushes To My Head

Your love is my plutonium and it’s

Registered to kill as sure as

Mercury through gloves.

Your air-bending suffocates me

But it is AH!, the element of

Surprise that defeats my senses.

Mimi Wolske

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(art: Michael Carson)

Silence Sounds Like, a poem by your Tumbleweed Contessa

Rumi said something to the effect that poetry gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. 

It, poetry, plucks at your heartstrings and makes music.

Poetry goes beyond the logic of prose; there is mystery in each one, a mystery not be explained but, rather, to be admired. 

ENJOY

© Silence Sounds Like

Silence sounds too much like you’ll be going;

Peace preys like a wolf longing for the hunt,

Serenading mocking love fragments from the past.

Autumn songs, once hidden like stars during light,

Return to the desert after summer blends into fall,

Bring winter’s chaos as if thunder in spring’s soul.

Swimming in a Van Gogh joy and red cosmic dreams,

I never wished for your hand-me-down dreams,

Your washed-out, washed-up, rented future for one.

Hail the part-time dreamer, the full-time idiot,

The lover who came with no warnings,

Conceding to counterfeit honesty……..

Mimi Wolske

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(art: Michael_Carson_Ginger_20x30_oil_on_canvas)

Poetry - TWINS

From one fertilized egg that contains a single set of genetic instructions, also known as a genome, did you know it is still possible for identical twins to have serious differences in their genetic makeup? Did you know some are mirror images of each other? They have the same physical features but opposite asymmetric features. If one twin is right-handed, the other twin is left handed, a twin with a birthmark on his left check will have a mirror twin with a birthmark on his right check. They can even have hair that whorls in opposite directions and opposite teeth. In more extreme cases, twins even have mirrored internal organs, such as one with a heart on the right and the co-twin with a heart on the left - even the skeletal features may be reversed.

There they were on the screen—

Shoestrings tightly interwoven,

Tree limbs reaching out like arms,

Plant roots stretching like legs—

A silent comedy of entangled umbilical cords.

© TWINS

Mimi Wolske

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(I am not a twin, there are no twins in my family history, there still are no twins in our family.)