Snowflake Word -- Happiness

Jo March

There are times

Times when I want to

Spill my heart out

All its contents

Like the soft painful teardrops

From a squeezed out sponge

Words scratched in fire-bird red

On just a small piece

Of cardboard...

Times when my words

Sob, laugh, freeze, melt

Or fall in innocent cream puff

Fragile snowflakes on my hand...

 

No matter how many times they

Unwrite themselves

Rewrite themselves

Or get erased

No matter how many times they

Fall in pigeon-gray puddles

With sky-blue patches

Leaving shadows of rainbow messages

Luminous like a comet’s tail...

They still glow...

Illuminating every sentence

Punctuated so elegantly

With a simple period...

 

You know today... I will go looking

For my message... looking for my rainbow

Word trapped inside a crystal tunnel

Perhaps it’s still there...

Indigo, flaming sunrise and pale blue

Writing, rewriting, erasing itself but mine...

Falling, rising, stumbling and rolling

Tumbleweed-fashion blown through

With the gusty winds of creativity

Caught in the net of a basketball hoop

In a forgotten backyard

Crossed out and highlighted,

Surrounded with

Emphatic quotation marks

But again it is mine...

 

So today I will go looking for my word...

It has traveled piled among numerous

Things in dusty suitcases... stumbled

Underneath benches in rain and snow

Has journeyed trapped between

The weather-beaten pages of my

Favorite books...

Lost itself underneath strangers’ footprints

Found itself in front of the steps

Of a beloved poet’s home

I know that in the end my word

Will find a nest inside...

Inside a stranger’s smile where

Surrounded by celestial light it will

Finally learn to pulsate happiness...

 

  

 

 

 

  • Author: Jo March (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: November 27th, 2021 04:48
  • Category: Unclassified
  • Views: 29
  • Users favorite of this poem: Caring dove
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  • Caring dove

    Loved the read ! Great poem … so engaging and I love the flow 🙂🙂

    • Jo March

      Thank you so much!

    • Paul Bell

      I think you will find that celestial light, and you should definitely take your time looking. The right one at the right time is worth the wait.

      • Jo March

        Thank you so much! I really appreciate it. Dreams are definitely worth looking for and waiting for.

      • orchidee

        Aww, did ya miss yesterday's rainbow, being in the U.S.?
        Here in U.K. we had one, and part of a second one behind it, it looked like.

        • Jo March

          Oh it looked like you had a double rainbow. How lovely. Thank you!



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