Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Pedestal Created

Mag 101
They fell in love
Deeply
As poets often do

Discovered
She the muse
He the afflatus

Pet nouns
Relation verbs
Endearment terms

He left
Her on the
Pedestal created

© 2012 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.


A quick stab at getting myself back into the practice. It's been way too long. In response to picture prompt from The Mag.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Draft: Endangered Pleasures 2/Your Way

You walk in all big and tall
Owning the place
Kick off your shoes
And put your feet up
Blissfully unaware
That you weren't
Invited

Baby, I love your way

Say what you mean
Stop begging me to ask you
I'm not a puppet
Only interested by the
Trailers you use to 
Tease me

Charming and funny
In your way
I watch you in awe
Unsuspecting the
Twister
Standing still

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.


A friend suggested that the thoughts in Endangered Pleasures were three stories. And after Brian suggested I flesh them out, I'm giving it a try. So story 1 is Your way. Still not quite there but coming.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Draft: Endangered Pleasures

Floating on an aria in my back sea
As the seagulls in
Finding Nemo say: Mine :)
I smile as I think, it doesn't get better than this
Unless, of course
It's like this
I sip timber inspiration from a cup of mistake making
A muse less decision to live a life I envy

You walk in all big and tall
Owning the place
You kick off your shoes
And put your feet up
Blissfully unaware
That you weren't
Invited

Baby, I love your way

You wind my clock never ticking
Yepping like you heard my story never told
I walk through walls
Did you know that?

I refuse to think I can't

Not a mirror reflecting
But a woman projecting
I'm defending endangered pleasures
Mine



© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.


A first draft inspired by way too many seemingly mismatched thoughts in my head. From people invading personal space, getting lost in a love, to making choices to live how you wish, to loving life and protecting it. I sing the line "Baby I love your way" to my cat all of the time. Garnet Rogers played at a venue last night and made an electric guitar sound like an underwater aria, his voice the timber of a ship floating along it. 

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Roomy Shell

My home
A shell
I side crawl
Defensively around
Near
Far

Memories
Stopping the door
Open
Room for more


© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.

In response to Magpie Tales picture prompt this week.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Intuition

My gut
Smarter than me
Tells me so
Before I see

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.

In response to Magpie Tales picture prompt this week. Also contributing to One Stop Poetry, Free Verse poetry. My kinda thinking.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Hmmmm

This might be just the thing to help me find time for writing again...

http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/general2/2011/06/03/contest-so-you-think-you-can-write-a-song-for-canada/

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Summer Lover

beachy.jpg
I lie here in anticipation
Soaking you in
My skin glows
From the weight of your heat
Pressed against me
Burning me
The scent of us
Reaching my nostrils
Soothing me
Lying still
Begging for more
You hide behind a cloud
Returning to caress me
Again and again
I absorb you greedily
Not wanting this to end
Again you cloud over
Leaving me behind
Shivering
Yearning to feel your heat once more

© 2011 by Tammy Newman. All rights reserved.

I love being warm. I love feeling the heat of the sun on my skin. So I thought about how it would be if the sun were a lover.