The Real Me

Once in the mirror I saw
a sepia inked version
pleading to me
for change like a beggar on the street.


So I picked up my pen and paper
composed a poem to the real me.
Now, I live and breath…
in vivid technicolor.

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

dVerse Quadrille: https://dversepoets.com/2019/01/14/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes-quadrille-71/

Promote Yourself Monday – January 14, 2019

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Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday.  All Go Dog Go Cafe readers, guest writers, and baristas are invited to post one link to one specific post (600 words or less please!) from your blog into the comments section below.

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Hollow Tainted Morn

Here in these hollow hours before morn
In vain I scream out your dear name
But there is no answer for you’ve gone
I’m left alone with this grief all the same


In vain I scream out your dear name
While I ponder how your life went awry
I’m left alone with this grief all the same
Do you hear on the wind my stricken cries?


While I ponder how your life went awry
Thinking what else I may have tried or done
Do you hear on the wind my stricken cries
Before the golden sun heralds in a new dawn?


Thinking what else I may have tried or done
But today there is no answer for you’re still gone
Before the golden sun heralds in a new dawn
I cry in hollow hours before a tainted morn

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

Imaginary Garden: http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2019/01/just-one-word-hollow.html

Poets United: http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/01/poetry-pantry-435.html

A New Beginning

Colorful start to a bright new year
As the rose red sun kisses the
Horizon, wispy clouds dance
A chance to create a
Dazzling beginning
Forget the past
Let it go.
Bask in
Joy
Love
Belief
In thrilling
Creations of
Magical moments
Wondrous revelations
Living in the here and now
Savoring life to the fullest
Grateful for all your precious blessings.

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg

Poets United: http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2019/01/poets-united-midweek-motif-starting-over.html

Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge!

Fleur-de-Lis

spring blooming iris

symbolic of hope and faith

purple fleur-de-lis

©2021 Linda Lee Lyberg