I am writing animal/nature spirit poems, and will be posting them here for now. We’ll begin with Humming Bird, who brings the energy of infinite joy to Earth.
Winged Joy
She wears the green
crest of heart
sips joy into
fear’s red body
a single kiss awakens
the memory of truth
spreading love’s infinity
in winged joy
she lives a body
of light encased
in weightless
hope
reflects bliss
in the gold shimmer
of Divine
I want to write about
hope
joy
and love
I want to write about
pain that sears
flesh into charred
cells that remember ashes
You can cling to fear
but I walk the path of healing
Mine is a truth of self
and absolution
You ask me to remember stories
that are not mine
We women wear
them in our throats
tight knots that choke voice
We have forgotten Isis
pulling the red chord of our wombs
We have forgotten feathers
folded against our hearts
Women, spread wide your red
lips
sing
laugh
rage
birth
This sacred ground is yours
to recover
Bare the Rainbow of Truth
in a circle
of raw threads
stripped of
hate
I love this! Brought chills as I read it, as I felt guided to create a poem, a call to Isis, on the 18th of June: http://thedailyerasure.com/2014/06/18/isis-2/
THE RETURN OF ISIS – HOW IT WILL AFFECT YOU AND WHERE YOU CAN FIND HER.
before the snow falls
again let me show you a
winter receding
Big Brand Fire
an erasure poem created from an Associated Press article by Julhas Alam
hooded Mickey Mouse
from Disney
Faded Glory
hip-hop
tag
Bangladesh. 112
killed
amid blackened
tables and melted sewing ma-
chines. Fashions
Ltd.
without authorization
without ap-
proval
comment
spotlight dan-
ger
with no
clear answers
react
the
way a
bear
argues
insist on
standards
direc-
t
Human Rights
pro-
tect workers as vigorously as
labels
the desperate
poor turning
low-priced products
shoppers
enjoy
the
ghastly
blaze
inspired by the 10/27/12 death of an Irish woman after she was denied an abortion of her dying fetus
In the land of green
and fairies, a beautiful
daughter
follows her fetus
from a poisoned
body
judgement will not
open palms and
save
a martyr before
death, her soul
carries
the weight
of 4 thousand
women
Part 2
after the storm
spread
relief
a stream
shuttled to
desperate areas
“Attention!
…they
do it for free”
see a need and
fill it
line
bandages and bottles
behind a tattered curtain
retrieve
phenomenal
community
Another erasure poem adapted from The Associated Press article, “Wall Street protestors unite to help victims of storm,” by Meghan Barr
Island Forgotten
An erasure poem adapted from an Associated Press article by Meghan Barr about Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy
Do you see
she asked, resignation
two young
brothers swept
from mother’s arms
drowned
a forgotten island
In the shadow
dazed
survivors roam
sand-covered streets
under the weight
of water
fire trucks
scatter
relief
wash muddy
hands
for
salvage
CALL ME
“The Big Pushback”
an Erasure poem adapted from an Associated Press article by Ramit Plushnick-Masti
Oil has lived
with cattle
across the Texas landscape
nurtured by
pipelines snaking through
the ground
It has snatched land
most egregious
like an arrogant foreigner,
unworthy
“We’ve fought wars for it.”
condemning land is not
unusual
A 78-year old
great-grandmother
whose late husband worked in oil
spent a night in jail after tres-
passing on her 425-acre farm
cleanup is still incomplete.
The Light Behind the Story 