No "Glorious" Feeling

Hard Rain Gilad 173 (Photobucket)

No shared step, no smile exchanged, no song beneath this umbrella for two.

This is for "Imaginary Garden with Real Toads - Sunday Challenge - Micro Poetry - Streetlight Rain"  - my attempt at:  American Sentences as a poetic form was Ginsberg's effort to make American the haiku.  If haiku is seventeen syllables going down in Japanese text, he would make American Sentences seventeen syllables going across, linear.

"Sanctuary"

Sanctuary

Effervescent and plaintive -

a contradiction or so it seems,

my song, undeciphered

left behind as I rise,

sail into clouds upon ocean's spray

a spirit suspended -

almost an Assumption...

but with one last breath

I mercifully plunge, a gentle behemoth,

back into deep blue's silence

of bubbles, sunbeams, and vibrations -

an underwater sanctuary.

Can you hear my plea?

by Margaret Bednar, March 28, 2017

My dear friend, Toril, is an artist living in the driftless region of Wisconsin.  She can be found on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/torilfineart/ and these fine fellows are for sale (there are actually three of them!) and many other new paintings she will be selling this spring & summer. 

With such beauty, it is daunting putting words to the feelings these images evoke... I am my own worst critic, I'm afraid... 

This is linked with "dVerse Poets Pub - Poetics: From Natures Point of View"