Tag: poems

A poetry challenge

This is in answer to a poetry challenge proposed by yours truly. I randomly chose nine words. I stole this idea directly from gbdances!

Is luck a date and
can I make it?
Will you balance me
between the genius of
your mouth and tongue
Fly me like a bird
Even though your heart
yearns for lost tin cans
tied together hoping for a call?
Only it’s war time and there is
a blackout in your heart.

Arwen Nightstar aka Stephanie Lynch
June 25, 2003

Poetry

An LJ friend is a poet. He is a very good poet, I think. Intelligent, lyrical, thoughtful, provoking…

Yesterday he had a poll asking people to answer some questions. He felt a bit clogged (I think?) in writing and was using it as a writing exercise.

Here is the one he wrote in answer to my answers.

I think it is truly lovely. And the willow is my tree in so many ways, so this poem hit places in me that GBDances may not have even realized.

Thank you, GBD.

March 7, 2003

POETRY: If Medusa Were A Mermaid

So one more for today. Another Medusa piece and probably one of my personal favorites. I don’t know if any of this is publishable, but I have had one piece published in The Beltaine Papers (well, one of my own and one that was co-written with wendytorrence). So that was a personal high for me. I love seeing my work in print and I love hearing what others think of it. Even the bad comments help because I can try to see what they are not seeing or are seeing in the piece that makes them uncomfortable.
If Medusua Were A Mermaid

Poetry: Medusa’d Heart

I love mythology. I love using mythology in poetry. This was written for my Heart after he had told me of a love gone wrong. Very very very wrong. Medusa is one of my favorite “mythos” people. I have another poem started on her “why I chose Medusa for a name”, but it is sitting in a notebook waiting for my pen to reach out to it again.
Medusa’d Heart