Night risings--listen--
the freefall of an apple
a flurry of wings
Artist: Gerus Igor
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About Me
- Joyce Ellen Davis
- 1. In dreams I am often young and thin with long blond hair. 2. In real life I am no longer young, or thin, or blonde. 3. My back hurts. 4. I hate to sleep alone. (Fortunately I don't have to!) 5. My great grandfather had 2 wives at once. 6. I wish I had more self-discipline. (I was once fired from a teaching position in a private school because they said I was "too unstructured and undisciplined." --Who, me??? Naaaahhh....) 7. I do not blame my parents for this. Once, at a parent-teacher conference, the teacher told me my little boy was "spacey." We ALL are, I told her. The whole fan damily is spacey. She thought I was kidding. I wasn't. 8. I used to travel with a theater reperatory company. My parents weren't happy about this. 9. My mother was afraid that I would run off and paint flowers on my cheeks and live in a commune, and grow vegetables. I once smoked pot. ONE TIME. 10. I don't drink or smoke. (Or swear, much. Well, I drink milk, and water, and orange juice, and stuff. Cocoa. I love Pepsi.) 11. Most of my friends are invisible. 12. I am a poet and a writer. All of my writing on these pages is copyrighted. Borrowing (without acknowledgment) is a sin.
BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN (click on image to buy)
Chrysalis
In Willy's House
TRIPTYCH--Three Short Stories
A Book of Fours
Pepek the Assassin
My Grandkids
Awards
15 comments:
Eloquent minimalism.
Beautiful and simple words..
I like the ambiguity of the apple having wings- cool- and I usually don't care for Haiku!
There's a whole world within your words. Beautifully done.
Lovely words, beautiful feeling!
Great piece.
The stillness of this poem is not scary. It is peaceful and simple and right.
Nicely done. I really like the picture, too.
Awesome - both poem and picture.
Powerful words and though few, give a crystal clear sensation of a single speck of time in life.
I nearly leaned forward when you said listen, and I did hear an apple and "a flurry of wings". Well done.
Thanx everyone, for all your kind words! Now I should get back to my NaNo...I'm sooooo bad!
What they all said.
This is VERY nicely done!
You have a very special blogg. All of them are different than usually bloggs.
Very nice.
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