Charmed Chaos
Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
From a Leaden Inkless Pen
Time’s chant, a ravishing rant to a pale consumed moon
In her lap a palmed rose, red as the blood of a newborn lamb
As skulls of saints hum spiritual songs with lonely cries of loons
While enticing them with tendrilled vines of bitter wild yams.
Upon these bleached stark bones, a grotesque painted mirth
Escaping from their jaws while immersed in achromous dreams
An embryonic nude as a mother poetess gives birth
Emboldened by their unrelenting inaudible screams.
From a leaden inkless pen, startling new words emerge
While the found poem bleeds grey upon fragile white paper
Fragmented ideas become whole as creative lines converge
Wielding with rapier wit, enslaving the words to her favor.
She laid upon linen parchment in all its naked bloody glory
The painful purge of her tortured soul in an entangled story.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s Note: Laura is hosting at dVerse Poets Pub: Poetics and has given us a list of words to use from Samuel Greenberg’s “The pale Impromptu.” I have chosen the following to use: ‘Consumed moon, palmed rose, skulls of saints, spiritual songs, times chant, and painted mirth.’
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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No Resistance
Each line on your face
I’ve traced with my finger,
but your luscious lips draw me
in and there I’ll linger
As I yearn for the sweet tingling
sensation of their magnetic pull
drawing me deeper in and then
resistance to them are futile.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille #114- Poetical Magnetism
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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Gone From Fragile Sight
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Gone from fragile sight
bright promise of tomorrow
and in its place comes creeping
on silent pads of uncertainty,
black-cat thoughts stalking
with deadly grace
Imprisoning all hope
that remains in their wake-
Shattering illusions
of a felicitous future.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
The Sunday Muse #130
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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Reminiscing Summer
This morning dawned with a cool kiss
Tendered upon my grateful heart
For summer’s heat at last departs
Basking in autumn’s breeze, what bliss;
Which gives me pause to reminisce
Of summers past, spent in sunshine
Sipping glasses of chilled white wine
Sharing our dreams of what’s to come
Listening to honeybees hum
Drinking nectar from jasmine vine.
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge No. 27 Bliss
dVerse OLN #276
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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I Am Water
I
am water
I am a mountain stream flowing
fresh and cold, clear and bright smoothing
stone edges, into a mosaic of painted hues adorned
by moments of my heart breaking and learning the inner
truth of my purpose to write until my bony fingers ache, to love with
every thread of my tattered soul. I am water, I am woman, I am a poet,
a dreamer, magic abounding in the most unlikely of places, a stranger’s
smile, the bloom of a rose, the flutter of a hummingbird’s wings.
Miracles, a painted dawn morning, a stormy sky
a dragonfly, a bird that sings, me.
©2018 Linda Lee Lyberg
Author’s Note: This is a shape poem from 2018.
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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#Haiku: Red Maple Leaves
Autumn’s red maples-
decaying leaves littering
the sodden footpath
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
Frank J. Tassone: Haikai Challenge #159 Fall Foliage
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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Among Copper Leaves
Strolling a quiet path on an autumn day
with naught but bright song of an oriole
Brilliant plumage hidden among copper leaves
his song wafting on the halcyon breeze
This is what feeds my dog-tired soul
listening to soothing sounds of nature
the heavy thud of green acorns dropping
Ground squirrels gathering them with abandon
To live our dream, perchance to see
our forever home waiting ’round the bend
a quiet old cottage nestled among tall trees
where we will laugh and love ’til our days end
©2020 Linda Lee Lyberg
dVerse Poetics: Three Little Words
Author’s Note: The three words I chose to use from Sarah’s choices are: Feed.Quiet.Copper
Linda Lee Lyberg is a wife, mother, artist, published poet and author. She resides in Mesa, AZ with her husband Pete (aka The Big Viking) of 24 years, and her dog, Ricky Bobby. Linda writes various forms of poetry, as well as short stories. You can read more of her works at: charmedchaos.com
and purchase anthologies containing her work here: Amazon Author Page
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