Glorious Reblog

Published May 18, 2020 by Nan Mykel

Audrey Howitt Poetry, Alive and Well – Reblog

Countdown

Posted: 17 May 2020 02:21 PM PDT

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for every good day

there is at least one

when the toads don’t sing

for everyday that my joints don’t ache

there are 100 when they do

I forget to count

I lose track

the gray matter behind my eyes

consumed elsewhere

in a series of control-alt-delete moments

Wallstreet, Penn Ave

shitstorms fly

while I look for a mitzvah

paid for in grace

on small streets

the music stops

I grab a chair

all I know to do,

is one thing at a time.

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Anodyne – poetry reblog

Published February 2, 2020 by Nan Mykel

Exquisite. I can’t think of another word.

Step outside – Reblogged poem

Published December 27, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Wow and wow! Superior!

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The doctor

who is 47 and wears a baseball cap

she doesn’t look her age, even her hands are unlined

but she knows her stuff, telling me, it’s a virus

got into you, maybe by the loosest thread and working its way up

attacked your spleen like, a well placed fist will split even hard skin

opening up secrets, spilling them like spaghetti squash, reveals its jewel

thumbing through test results, her eyes raised imperceptably

we both joked at the irony of finding a virus, good news

by then I had, a long list of debtors, thinner wrists, curled with many knots, my mouth was parched from staying open

who knew I’d learned so well, the art of begging and beseachment

and the phone, if it were not disconnected, would not have rung because I’d found out

those who stand in faded ink on birth certificate, are not interested in…

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Micropoetry Month: Nov 2017: #8

Published November 9, 2017 by Nan Mykel

I had to re-blog this… My favorite is Number 6 — visit her site to read after 1-5…

THOUGHT PURGE

Micropoetry Month The last time I tried my version of Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” I called it “ Thirteen Ways of Looking in the Mirror” . Think I need to change my perspective!

Try your own set of thirteen (or three or ten) or share any other form of micropoetry using comments or Mister Linky! Here’s mine.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Myself

(1)

my silence
is the space
I concede to you,
sometimes
willingly

(2)

as a fragment of a fragment
of a fragment…
should I worry
that I am incomplete

(3)

whatever you see
when you see me,
know that inside
I am polished mirror

(4)

my anger has a way
of finding hidden words
while pain sits in the dark
reading someone else’s poems

(5)

what I know about love
I learnt from the river
that polishes one stone
into a…

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Kintsugi – the Japanese art of mending with beauty – reblog

Published September 21, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Incredible.

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I have been considering
kintsugi, and how
we heal ourselves,
we who are no longer whole,
and if we can
be beautiful
and flawed
and flawed
and beautiful.

I have considered
my scars, not golden,
not joyful,
not thoughtful, but
silver pale, glistening,
secret lines,
hidden from view,
and wondering
if I can be beautiful
even though
I can never be
mended, not entirely.

I am broken,
re-made,
broken again,
mended. I am
burnt, cut,
poisoned,
damaged.
I am not
who I was,
and yet I am
still here,
beautiful
and flawed
and flawed
and beautiful.

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Knitting Moonbeams – A re-blog

Published October 12, 2016 by Nan Mykel

Knitting Moonbeams

OCTOBER 11, 2016 ~ THOTPURGE

alone in the arbour
knitting words and moonbeams
poems for cold winter nights

***

knit one, purl one,
swapping stories with the stars
the warmth extends

THOUGHT PURGE

alone in the arbour
knitting words and moonbeams
poems for cold winter nights

***

knit one, purl one,
swapping stories with the stars
the warmth extends

For CDHK where the prompt is knitting.

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Glorious Reblog

Audrey Howitt Poetry, Alive and Well – Reblog

Anodyne – poetry reblog

Step outside – Reblogged poem

Micropoetry Month: Nov 2017: #8

Kintsugi – the Japanese art of mending with beauty – reblog

Knitting Moonbeams – A re-blog

Knitting Moonbeams

For CDHK where the prompt is knitting.

Audrey Howitt Poetry, Alive and Well – Reblog

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