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The Petty Player Who Rarely Sleeps

I'd Like A Taste (The Wolf Said)

The Crow Is A Black Bird

When I Start to Bloom

I'd Like To Be Your Shirt (when you wake up in the morning)



All Beings Considered

Words Between Edward And Jane

Nothing's Sadder Than A Rose

The Great Tsunami Of Our Growing Grief written 3/2.2021--retitled 3/14/2021

After Wide Sargasso Sea ( For Those of You Readers Who Have Empathy For the First Mrs. Rochester.)

WAITING ON THE WORLD (March/February 2021 poetry)

Wild and Unraveling

What Must Be

These Hands Exist July 4 2023 rei-edited 7/12/2023

I Am The Color Of Black

The Tide of Your Lies (2019-2023)

How I Wanted Your Pearls 6/24/2023 WRITTEN DIRECTLY TO THE PAGE

Love Wants What Love Wants re-edited 5/31/023

Winter's Been Too Long.... 4/18/2023 (LONGING)

The Dreaming Life ( A Series Of Dream Vignettes)

Like A Small Street Dog Lured In By The Promise Of Meat

This Is What Mermaids Dream Of

At Night, As I Dream of Vampires Who Have No Bad Intentions

And You Will Be Called Ashes As You Leave ( from a dream)

Certainly No Bread 3/16/2022

Someone Send Out A Search Party

THE FAN , AT NIGHT, GIVES GOOD ADVICE completely re-edited, an entirely different poem

What Is The Price For Your Touch? re-editied 5/31/2023

Where Is My Bed With The Pleasing Tree -Lined View(NOW REEDITED)

Oh What Fine Physics (Before Me ,Lies) re-edtited @4/17/2023

If Prejudice Were Dumb And Could Not Speak

THE COMPANY THAT WE KEEP WITH THE ONE WITHIN

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Seeing (Before the tea is tea)

Tilt of curly head
blue eyes watching sideways
taking in every face
reading what's underneath
before it rises to the surface.
Is it gift,
fallen grace?
A disservice?
An untied or broken lace
of memory?
Noticing, seeing?
Mind-reading, make-believing?
Minutia, details
an invisible track
none can sense or see.
Call it my wealth of
experience or poor tragedy.
The messages hidden
in the tea leaves.
nearly always reveal themselves
to me
before any tea is poured
before the tea is tea.
The inner sense of it cannot be
ignored.
It is an itch
that requires soothing.
I am apart yet a part of it,
removed yet I am the earth moving.
Even
the ocean floor beneath
knows a part of me,
my azure eyes have seen
and will keep on seeing.
The inner eye is honed
the intuition brightly sheened.


Copyright August 18th 2011...All Rights Reserved By the Author
Melissa A Howells   Meloo of Tilt-a-World


work in progress. sheened isn't a word, but I like the idea of it anyway.







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