Make your way over to Lee Johns page for today’s wonderful poems. Full of rich imagery and textures that invite you to come back for 2nd, 3rd and 4th reads and hopefully more. The artist has indicated a trigger warning in the last poem entitled The Heart. Please read and enjoy today’s selections.
I kneel before her in the dirt outside the passenger door with sand in my scraped knees, staring God down, not looking where I’m going.
Lee Johns
I would eat spiders to feel something wake up in me again.
Lee Johns
I tell you their shape has meaning: that when you love it is with all the heart that flutters in your palm.
Lee Johns
Icarus tells his father yes I am afraid of heights but still I stand on the blade of the cliff watching waves crash and rebound
Lee Johns
The heart is a scaled and shameful thing.
Lee Johns