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Thick With Words

3/31/2022

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I showed up hauling
words thick as honey

suitcase heavy
with stories untold,

uncounted poems
pulsing in bags.

I knocked on your door
thick with words

and you
invited me in

for
tea.

 


Donna Falcone November 2013, Grey Towers
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Ground Up

7/15/2020

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Nightmares,
Bone on bone.
Neither synovial fluid or
Sinewy tissue remains
To ease the grinding
Between them.

Use love.
 

​----
2.26.2015 
Photo by Mark Rowland via flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60912828@N00/4303494455
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Here's to the People with Rose Colored Glasses

2/14/2020

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Here's to the people with rose colored glasses
The ones who see starlight where others see none
The ones who hope wildly and love with abandon
The ones who drag on 'til the victory is won

Here's to the people who suffer the laughter
Of other's who've left their rose lenses unworn
The ones who face problems as puzzles not blockades
The ones who step into each new day, reborn

Imagine the world without rosy hued lenses
A world without vision or dreaming or hope
So here's to the people with rose colored glasses
Who see life itself as a kaleidoscope

Donna Falcone
2.14.2020
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One More

2/12/2020

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Knocking Down Dust

10/26/2019

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​No amount of wiping
or washing
or knocking down dust~

No amount of tossing
or saving
or putting away~

No amount of washing
or folding
or tucking inside~
can ever
unspill
the
​milk.

3.08.2014
I'd spent the day cleaning my son's room - doing more than intended,  yet it still seemed not enough. No longer a child, he was quite able to clean his own room, but I told myself it was a gift. As my body protested, I searched for satisfaction, trying to create order out of chaos, trying to reclaim the past - trying to retake what was taken - trying rebuild what Lyme Disease broke. 

But, the past is carved in stone.

​I think of my boy, shaking it off like dust on the dresser, and smile. 

​-------

Written on March 3, 2014 from a prompt on Photo Play Monday at Tweetspeak... Ode to the Home.  ​
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The Heart Holds On

10/26/2019

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​Memories fade

as time rolls by.
Minutes to days to years,
how they fly.

Slipping through fingers
like sand on the shore.
Hands feeling empty
once more.

But, the heart holds on
forever, it seems,
to a strong sacred bond
that we visit in dreams.

The heart holds on
even as time flies by,
and it carries us home
in the blink of an eye.

Donna Z Falcone 11/24/2009
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Journey

5/13/2019

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Ribbons of paint
slide 
like speed
off the edge
~
strong hands
surrender
to
 clear ​canvas sky
~
​she ascends

from the head
​of a
​p
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n
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Art and poem by Donna Falcone May 13 2019
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Listening from the Kitchen

3/14/2019

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Hung Jury

1/11/2019

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Giving Breath

1/4/2019

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Donna Z. Falcone c2019
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