Friday, February 22, 2013

Gone



Poem © 2013 by Joyce Mason
All Rights Reserved

 

Sometimes I lose you
in the middle of a sentence:
soul vacates body
your whole being goes blank.

Staring at a Stepford Wife
I ask:
Are you there? OK?
You only speak when spoken to,
a Stepford Rule.

Where does my warm friend go
in these out-of-body experiences?
I don’t know, but it doesn’t feel
friendly or warm
or of this earth

I suspect you’re kidnapped by aliens
their painful probes touching
places you do not want exposed

Invisibility
the hardest force
to fight, fathom or befriend:

You
Us
Them.

~.~.~






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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

April: Astrological Poetry Month on The Radical Virgo



Preview this book in progress in April 2013!


Dear Friends of Stitched Verse,

After not posting for two years due to other commitments, I’m excited to announce a new wellspring of poetry I'll be sharing in April 2013 on my astrology blog, The Radical Virgo. You don’t have to be an astrologer—or even much interested in the subject—to appreciate these poems, prayers, blessings and meditations about everyday life and the relationship between Earth and the Cosmos.

I’m on the cusp of some down time, taking care of some medical issues and claiming some much needed R&R. By Spring Equinox, I expect I’ll be back here now and then, penning poems. I worked ahead for April's Astro-Poetry Month, and it has been very surprising to rediscover another poetry vein. I'm having the next California Gold Rush!

Hope you’ll “cross over” to The Radical Virgo in April, and I look forward to being back on Stitched Verse in the future, as some major commitments wind down at the end of winter.

Yours in verse,
Joyce