Springtime and New Growth Poetry from Year of The Poet (Vol 16)
By: Kimberly Burnham
Tags: Poetry, Vision, Inspiration, Health, Spring

Featured in The Year of the Poet April, 2015 Volume 16.

Fluctuating Relationships

Volcanic / glacial / towering peaks / rolling down / the stillness / garnering at the bottom / smiling again / pouncing on the mountain / past and forward looking / undulating extremes / define the continuum

Angry and delicious / relating but never quite / all one or the other / don’t get stuck / thinking it is the end / as the pendulum swings / seasons change / life moves

We can’t hold back the spring / bursting with new chances / to create beauty / gifts from the universe / swinging into relationships

We chose how far to go / how much to learn / when in the cycle / to frame the vision

Hot Air Balloons, Heaven and Earth Photo by ian dooley on Unsplash

Heaven and Earth

Intersecting heaven and earth / flesh and blood / matter casting a shadow / light filters down / a million miles from the sun

I feel the heat on my face / waves of light / speeding through the sky / intersecting with my dreams / of what can happen today / at the intersection between / heaven and earth / and me

The daylight spun into words / poetry flowing / light bridging space / as chlorophylled leaves / blowing oxygen / into me / at the intersection of life

Dancing on the beach at sunset by Adriana Aceves on Unsplash

Dance

Morning brought / “let’s go out dancing” / the day lengthened / white lilies in a red pot / covered with hearts / dance through the long day

Sitting on the couch / as dusk creeps into the daylight / energy well distributed / but little left for / “let’s go out dancing”

The TV screen beckoning / after stir-fry swirls / from pan to belly / music on demand / we dance at home / crazy and slow / bouncing and gliding / on the chocolate carpet

Epic Beauty

Splendor comes in many / packages tied with / shimmering crimson bows / a tiny wrinkled hand / reaches out to touch your face / exploring what is not yet / clearly seen

A gigantic blue butterfly / captured in the jungle / beside a thundering

Columbian waterfall / delightful delicacy in bits

Light reflecting / a spacious world roamed / can you still see / in your mind’s eye / delicious diversity / in European faces

Or the massive red Shinto gateway / whose spirit shines forth / throughout Asia finding / compassion in a friendly face

A tear rolls from hazel eyes / as the band plays, Oh Canada / fluttering red and white / in the distance

A photographer finding / the way home again / trying to see / the path forward / blocked by an ophthalmologist / his white coat looming / impressive degrees on the wall / you ought to consider your life

Blind! / he predicts a bleak future / “it’s genetic, nothing / you can do” / a flashing strobe light / punctuated by periods / of colorless / black and white / darkened now

Massage school / a profession you can do blind / opens a doorway / a textured nuanced hallway / craniosacral therapy / nutrition / acupressure / integrative manual therapy / matrix energetics

Tibetan singing bowls / drawing you forward / onward healing path

Seven years of doing / learning / seeing / looking / becoming / director of vision services / “no one can tell me / it doesn’t work” / experience shows I can help / create a gorgeous world

Seeing is believing / in growth, in healing / in all the roads / to the top of Mount Fuji / to seeing exquisiteness here / inside and outside / in the chilly blue of a spruce / piled high with winter snow

In a child’s face / at the end of a storybook / in the road winding through / red rock / in a purple sunset at home / before closing my eyes / dreaming into reality / a new adventure awaiting / in the morning radiance

The Year of the Poet, April 2015 Volume 16 Poet Posse, Inner Child Press, Kimberly Burnham

Originally published in The Year of The Poet at http://www.innerchildpress.com/the-year-of-the-poet.php on April 1, 2015.