
but for a few
faded old pictures,
I would never have
remembered those times
we were brilliant, dazzling souls
devouring life with feverish joy…
who are these smiling ghosts
staring at me, who wasted
their youth chasing after time…
~kat

but for a few
faded old pictures,
I would never have
remembered those times
we were brilliant, dazzling souls
devouring life with feverish joy…
who are these smiling ghosts
staring at me, who wasted
their youth chasing after time…
~kat

have you heard
the latest titillating
scathing, scandalous news
wise inquirers will
reserve judgment for
the horse’s perspective
~kat
For Jane Dougherty’s Daily Poetry Challenge, 42.
Art by Norman Rockwell: “Chain of Gossip” Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 6, 1948.

remember me?
fragrant first bloom
on thorny pedicle
purest petals, unfurled
remember me when the wind
whispers you away
~kat

a mother’s heart
remembers every sweet
moment; the sound of
her child’s laughter,
tiny hands in hers
to keep her warm
when she is old and they
have grown away

then the flowers bloomed
it was as if they didn’t
care that baring their
souls would only lead to
withering from a too hot sun

the wind whispers to me
in cool blue tones and
hot rose petal reds…in
sea spray, crushed moon dust,
purple rain forest misting…a
honey-sweet symphony
playing in my head and
i wonder am i mad
or just listening

remember eternity
is not here…it’s not there
somewhere…it surrounds
you in its brilliant embrace
when time stands still
~kat

by another name
Eros, blood and tears
of Venus, Aphrodite
prickly hybrid
legendary bloom
a rose is a rose is
~kat