POETIC DELIGHTS BY BELINDA SUBRAMAN-US
1- Seniors We want life in spite of loss. We fear joining the void. Each year we have fewer options clinging to ego teddy bears. Looking for depth behind the words beyond the facade. Eyes grow wiser as they dim. We see through it all. We’re all we’ve ever been: the brushing breeze of affection, forces beyond our control, warm whispers down our spines at a crossroads of hunger and understanding everything. 2-Your House… pops, cracks and sighs easy to imagine its wood is breathing stretching its limbs being itself around you with memory shavings dog eared and puppy loved. White noise blows air through its vents and monotones you to sleep with the blood pulsing through your vein network, the tree inside you. A train whistles ten miles across the desert. Someone is going somewhere while you are still. You are safe and calm, we imagine inside the womb of you house. 3-We Are Poetry We are poems calm but excited Humming through reeds with everywhere to go Flaming alive...
