“But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest…” This is why I love Billy Collins…
Tag: Poetry
haiku: your smile
Art by JMW Turner Your smile broke the dawn rose and gold shone on my face colors I still taste. Crystallized moment distantly your smile tingled on my fingertips.
Slice of Life
Here’s a slice of life. I have been sitting by the fire all day in this big chair, reading. Pure luxury. Ahhh, a day just to read… and not to write… to think… and not to write…
From My Cold Window
Winter night alone… icy branches in the wind like cold empty arms. Winter night alone… blue snow under the street lamp blue flames in the hearth.
This Part…
We are in the Lufthansa lounge in Frankfurt waiting to fly home in a few hours. I am recollecting the last two weeks while enjoying a latte…
Special Request… for Valentine’s Day
I am making a special request this year… before Valentine’s Day. I would like to receive a poem from my Valentine this year.
To Hope
No explanation for this poem, just watching the Mediterranean Sea and the wind and pondering…
Ready, Set, Believe
I wrote this poem after we had spent half a day with Tamara, our Russian guide, in Moscow touring the Kremlin, Red Square, Lenin’s Tomb, and the Russian Crown Jewels.
DNA Proofs
The wintry weather in Texas is making me think about the former Soviet Union and our life some years ago. I remember that period as the “best and worst of times.” I wrote the poem below in St. Petersburg.
Every Word
Every Word Every word I write, I engrave upon your heart, that you will see the hidden person of me without form of beauty, without benefit of education, without power of possession, without significance of fame. Every word I write, I engrave upon your heart that you will know what I reveal, what I conceal,…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 