Sky Beyond Wire

 

“Let me love you. I will hold your brittle bones together.”

             ~    Rigoberto González

 

A child of cages and dark dreams

I listen to the haunting ring of rain upon wire.

 

Every wingless yesterday stalks my dreams

to pry the wind from hope, yet the butterfly

inside me speaks the language of sky.

 

Weighted with drowning I drink light

from liquid blue shimmers pooling

on the stars beyond my reach, and

hold on to what I can’t see to lead me

through the obsidian eye of frantic. 

©Susie Clevenger 2021

The Sunday Muse #172

Butterflies and Bullies

I sleep wide awake between

butterflies and bullies

counting sheep morphed into tribes.

With the new social of antisocial

agree is God and truth is the devil

when it survives the river of lies.

Mining hope from empty, finding

beauty in bare, I fly what could be

instead of a sky polluted with dead air.

In the If Not Now Then When,

The Gray of Blind, even a flicker of peace

can feed a spirit who faces another mountain to climb.

©Susie Clevenger 2019

Real Toads ~ What is Metamodernism

Moon Straw

Let me drink hope from your lips,

taste life while it still drinks

romance through a moon straw.

Optimism hangs on a crucifix

of barbed tongues while devils sing

the what about -isms of another’s evil.

If night must rage, let its rage escape

along my skin…Let me breathe resurrection

before I succumb to ashes.

©Susie Clevenger 2018

Friday 55 ~ 06/22/2018

The I of the Storm

I storm through May

with prayers howling

across my tongue.

There are few answers

to my questions, little solace

in climbing agony.

Weak, but rooted in dandelions,

I gather every seed of resurrection

to lift me out of darkness.

I mortar another brick

on the wall of hope

wondering why rocks crumble

in silent wails.

 ©Susie Clevenger 2018

The dandelion represents healing and the ability to rise above life's challenges. 

My daughter, Dawn, definitely possesses the dandelion spirit to thrive in adversity.

Real Toads ~ The Tuesday Platform