Unexpected Joy

I found this quote in the front cover of 'The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore,' and I couldn't stop thinking about it.  Just the way it was worded intrigued me so and I found myself writing.  I initially wrote this for my ACW Portfolio, but I think it deserves a place here - on my blog.  I truly hope you all, my readers, enjoy this short piece and please, don't be shy about posting an opinion or thought.  c:

“Laughter sparkles like a splash of water in sunlight” – Anonymous

To walk a Thousand Days – fortunate

eyes Glimmer with Lust

For the Crystal pool to taint its

never-ending heated Light – the touch

of A Child’s titter to Be

the Ripple found in the Sunlight

Untitled

“Inspired from Poems by Maya Angelou”

With skin like dawn

The scullery maids create a love child

From the Black-White truth of

The lip-wise owners living

in the broken air spread across their massive properties

The fruit and grains witness

The blooming horror

of the staining on the shoes

Of the grown

Rubbing the nakedness of the child’s bursting balloon belly

Whilst thick scars lay across their backs

and their tiny hands calloused

from the weight of a thousand white men

Untitled

“Inspired from Play Button Poems by Liz Robbins”

Be exposed,

              you

       weight of error

fused to the reddened child

          like Jesus on his crucifix

                       in October

         

          Tricks of smoke drip

                       off my tongue to land

       between

                       Juno’s spread legs

               

                behind the drooped laundry line

          her pockmarked mum

                       frozen in silent warmth

Our generation

              the last of the guitar bodies

       lay on colored tissue

                                  bloodied

                   by the gut-ropes hidden by

   the purple twinge we call

                                Dear Darkness