Skydance by Michele L. Harvey 18 X 72 inches, oil on linen.
POETRY CORNER
– 12/07/16
Hosted by Kathabela Wilson
In this season, often overlaid with memory, we are sensitive. We open ourselves to the new dreams and ideas that can influence our daily lives in powerful ways. With strong creative dreaming here, our four poets lift us into whole new heights, humor, and hopes for the future.
~ Kathabela
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The Invited by Michele L. Harvey – 30 X 50 inches, oil on linen.
Michele L. Harvey
nightly dreams
where I will myself to fly
and with them
my caterpillar life
morphs into a butterfly
Poet and artist Michele L. Harvey writes from her winter aerie in Brooklyn, New York: “I’ve always had vivid dreams. During one particularly troubling time in my life, I began to have flying dreams. Somehow I’d learned I simply had to lean forward and will myself to lift off and it happened. It became a recurring dream so real, I could control my actions and soon was teaching others to fly too. These dreams gave me hope that my difficulties would soon be at an end, and indeed they soon were.”
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Outback (Photo – Dawn Toomey).
Gayle Sweeper
exotic places
fill my daydreams
wishing
I could go there, ride horses
whipping the wheelchairwater levels
have dropped in the Outback
I dream
of rushing rivers
smell of fresh rainI travel
to my happy place
in dreams
go to poor countries
where I can be the helper
Gayle Sweeper lives in Brisbane, Australia. She says: “Being disabled, writing has given me purpose. My passion is writing tanka, I enjoy many forms of poetry, especially Japanese. My dream is to publish a book of tanka and my memoir.
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Woods Path by Michele L. Harvey, 50 X 33 inches, oil on linen.
Elizabeth Alford
flannel pajamas…
I dream they fly
away from me
flapping legs and arms
like plaid fairy wings
Elizabeth Alford is a poet living in Hayward, CA who daydreams at night.
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kris moon
Haiga by kris moon
Kris Kondo, who signs her work as kris moon, is an artist, poet, teacher, mom and gran-mama who went to Japan by ship in 1972. She has been creating haiga since her early days in her adopted country. One of her dreams is to make personalized individual books of her haiga as presents each year showing her grandchildren as they grow.
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♣ We welcome and encourage your response especially in the form of short poems. You may reply by leaving a comment below.
such an invitation, dear Poets, thanks!!