walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
the sidewalk sprouts dandelion greens
and clover
in the cracks
resume
walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
with eyes closed the trees sing
listen
to the shaft of light
resume
walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
hush
hush
hush
pause
resume
walking
slowly
one step
two
pause
breathing breath of breezes
inhaling
slowly
one breath
two
resume
walking
slowly
I got completely distracted this evening after dinner from things I should be working on and instead went digging through my email inbox to see what might be poetically lurking there in the subject lines. Hopefully pursuing a bit of nonsense will help me find my way back into actual sense. Here’s hoping, anyway. 😉 So, I give to you ….
A Grad Student’s “In” Box
Have you …
Been MIA again?
I was wrong about the …
Growing in Faith, Hope and Love
What Would You Do?
He changed my life
Did I tell you?
STRANGE THINGS
Hello This Just In!
I’m “totes” voting for
Fragile love
Grab it now while it’s free!
Question Your LIFE
We’d like to introduce you to these …
Love is …
Fear
…. Are You Interested??
WEATHER IS FOREVER
We can’t take it
we can help
I begin again
We’d like to introduce you to …
Ravishing beauty
Scorpions and Gods
Literary Zen Training
“OLD MAN” THIS IS MY LAND
Never “build it and they will come”
Why on earth would …
Creature comforts
MONSTER OUTSIDE
Experience the Wonderfully Weird
We are THAT Family
There’s no time like the present
Live it up with the best long lost treasure
a cool “mind tool”
Free Love Bite
Eat THIS
Request Disturbed
We’re SO close!
Take control of your Day
Seriously Don’t agonize
EFFECTIVE PARENTING TIP
Sell your heart
pure gold …
Going, going …
When passion sings
FROM OUT OF MY WINDOW
DRINK FROM THE FOUNTAIN
Congratulations!
You have a new … [Last Chance}
You Get the …
Do you want a …
or …
Take a minute to explore
Highs and Lows
You have a new …
“Having It All”
A Secret Meeting
from the Fire, the flames, and you
One more night
How You Can …
get my first novel
There is No Spoon
Mysterious New Human
Creation Transformation
JESUS WAS A TEENAGE …
Drat! I sent the wrong link!
THINGS I HAVE SEEN
What the heck
holy crap …
you’re Batman
That’s correct
A Wicked Sorceress
Conversion Nothing.
Everything.
the stars reveal your faith?
Your night just got better
Sometimes your family won’t understand Critical Thinking
Graveside Congratulations!
… I’M HERE!
Last Chance!
We’d like to introduce you to these …
Whims and follies
Don’t Miss
Moonlight Epiphany
A garden
the best sorts of relationships
Song of love
Are We Happy Yet?
Fairs, Film Fests, and Ghosts
I had to stop watching
Short ‘N Simple
I’m tired of being a Christian
Building the 21st-Century
Graduate Student
The following was written as a response poem in opposites to this earlier poem, A Day in the Country. I suppose I could’ve titled this one “Twilight in the City” but it just felt like it was such a heartfelt cry of woe from the standpoint of the natural environment.
twilight in the city
attendant to the mingling common
a certainty of disenchantment
frigid waste of dusk
the insignificance
the confusion
the familiarity of milling downtown
a civilized behaved seriousness
possessed of costume
an autumn drought is
an uncharged corruption
loosened over granite
asphalt, a numbing cradle
soulful inertia
discharged in concrete
intellectual chill
distastefully troubled by
the hot failure of
the stagnant breath
the blind and sulky silence
of the city
each crowd indefinite
obliged and foul
Debi Taylor-Hough 