The #tinywinterpoem has come to an end. I didn't post on the daily like I would have liked but decided to share some of what I wrote.
"Demanded:" I wrote a series with this word. The last is the conglomerate of what was best from that series!
1.
He demanded it.
A laundry list of ideas
The impossible
2.
Demanded: millions
Ransom for an old lady
the oddest story
3.
The impossible
Filling the voids of his mom
still he demanded.
4.
Was it a cop out?
A laundry list demanded
An excuse to leave.
5.
I am not your mom
A laundry list demanded
An excuse to leave!
6.
Sit down and shut up
I wish I had demanded,
Forced a listening ear.
7.
Mom, come over here.
One of her divers demands
Shopping used to be fun.
8.
Grief makes one unhinged
"More like my mom," he demanded
And much less like you.
"Carried"
1.
The burden carried
upon unsteady shoulders
is meant to be dropped.
2.
Carried in my arms
Many days felt very long
How I wish them back.
"Arched"
1.
She bends, bridge making
Arched back, pausing from motion
a stop then moving
2.
My little ballerina
Ballet shoes and buns
Arched heels, pointed toes, the spins
My ballerina
"Wished"
1.
All I had wished for
Love's promise forever
Now a skeleton.
2.
All to Half
All I had wished for
Picked fence, little family
Now 50%
"Brushed
Our Nemesis
She says she brushed it
With so much hair, some gets missed
The snarls: Nemesis
A few bonus poems here from me just writing and being sad the #tinywinterpoem was over.
Still in my Contacts
I thought of you now
then picked up the phone before
realizing you're gone.
Until there was Nothing Left
I thought about us...
Not all of it was bad...
the falling, the establishing,
the promising,
and of course, the children, the family...
Yet within the good
Too much "not so good" was sprinkled
and cultivated, and stirred
and of course, ignored...
Until there was nothing left
but the sprinkles...
