Tag Archives: poetry

Separation

 
sad-ghost
 
I write with your pen

–curving my palm

–your art leaving its nib

–your dreams filling my head

–your pain curdling my heart…
 
 
 
My body rises with his coffee

charging beginnings–

his work ethic

–impelling me forward

his glasses

–bridging my nose

his passion

–igniting my soul…
 
 
My mind

is his
 
 
–remembering her.

Yearning for her,

tasting her cravings

a snack mix)

hearing her music

static

promising her compromise

*an oversight*

wanting her caress

to soothe

listening to her heel Taps

–dopplering away→

–and I rite→

I right.

©Karen Robiscoe

One Hand Clapping

juggler

I am the It girl

in my reality

‘Walking red carpet

stained by infinite, launched tomatoes

(elbow-elbow, wrist-wrist-wrist)

in a vacuum

& vacuum-free,

the pile isn’t my problem

“booked’

as I am

time and again

and you know,

again

for stages in rooms

Standing Room Only

Grand

(i-ose)

constructs of the mind

wherein I retain utter creative control

–director, star & critic

I also pitch tomatoes.

©Karen Robiscoe

Oz Born

balloon
 
wireless wizard

Clicks

ruby red cursors

3x.
 
 

Beginning, middle, end.

The left

–2x.

And right for once…

Believing

the force

was

inside

her all along

she runs shell games

forgetting Kansas…

second-site

revealing there never was

a place like home…

©Karen Robiscoe

Where Faux Art’s Art

masterpiece
 
The line

between the

Arts

& the
 
 

Are you kidding me’s

is blurred.

By spell check

& plastic checkout…

By dual lines

& paraphrase…

By light board

& bored-dumb

inCessantly rubbed out

by puppies

in Microsoft Office Pools

leasing Adobe brick buildings

with filtered light.

©Karen Robiscoe

Catching Nemo

clown / anemone (ish)

Anemone

is anime

anonymously

(into me)

>onto me<

and fond of me

an amphipiron entity

–whose tenancy

has tendencies–

toward mutual identity…

Phenomenal

affinity

& legacy

of chemistry…

Proprieties

beneath the sea,

illuminates totality…

a harmony

quite heavenly

>for all that it’s biology<

a tendril friending

finned fishy

is fail-safe

& seaweed-free…

a calming frond

in frantic sea

Atlantic, Pac’

& all between

host mise en scènes

of empathy…

boast symbiosis salty-sweet

~show decency~

for you & me…

 

©Karen Robiscoe

Past Tension

 

Be vigilant

as Presents pass

as you age

and time goes fast

) uncaging (

↓ Hands ↑

of Death

>that grasp<

Watch carefully

for portents…

Yesterdays

Will come too soon

remember when’s

In empty rooms

Galloping toward your

own doom

a taunting mean

of morbid

Without

the warmth

Of bloodlines own–

–Concerns and care

of family known–

–the hearth ♥ that makes

A house

 a home

Wrought over Time—

–is torment.

pocketwatch

©Karen Robiscoe