Poetry – Anna Flurry

Slow Growth

Image Description: Photo of several trees whose branches are permanently twisted from the wind, continuing to grow from solid grey rock against a cloudy background.

I am an oak saplingSlow growthMy roots are deeper and widerThan I am highI am solidAnd tenderStrongVulnerableI will twist with the windAs I growMy branchesUnfurling in shady tesselationsOffering golden acornsTo birds and squirrelsSpring green leavesTo caterpillars and antsI need waterAnd rich earthTo growBut I can survive a droughtAndI am findingMy forest

This is a Bad Poem.

Image Description: Photo of a white llama against a grey stone background at Machu Picchu

This is a poem I don’t want to put on the Internet.This poem(Like most bad things)I will keep to myself. This Poem gives meAnxiety.I want to Fix the GrammarButI set out to writeA Bad Poem So My first IntentionIsMy Last intention. This PoemIs for all the thoughtsUnSaidThat I keep to myself This Poem isAll theI’mperfectionsThatContinue reading “This is a Bad Poem.”

break

i. we say: “the world” “everyone” “everything” is broken words that summarize but do not encompass the suffering of each of the beings who have been taught through violence through isolation through poisonous words that who they are is not enough is less than ii. somewhere along the way as i saw and understood andContinue reading “break”

The ocean will cry for me

When I have no more tears to give Her salt water heaves In great sobs of emotion As constant as life And death And nothing She cries The ocean will roar for us When our throats are raw from screaming When the blood on the streets has dried And the spring grass Has sprouted overContinue reading “The ocean will cry for me”

Infinite Tale

Image Description: Multi-colored yarn hanging from the ceiling.

We each weave intricate narrativesAbout ourselves and our surroundingsThe little explanations and storiesDescribing who we are to ourselves We understand our lives in terms of time and experiencesMemories and placesEach friend, neighbor, family memberA character in our story We read chapters and excerpts from their own narrativesBut their stories unfold outside our ownWhere we areContinue reading “Infinite Tale”

Up and Away

Image description: Yellow aspen leaves with blue sky in the background

My spirit quakesLike a tremor of the earthA snakeSits in my throatWinds its way down to my heartAnd squeezes Blood buzzes in my earsI breathe like a trembling aspen treeLeaves brittle with cold My thoughts are guppy fishSwimming in endless manic circlesTrapped in a tankTooSmallAnd I look at the world distorted through waterOr is itContinue reading “Up and Away”

The Extravaganza

She brushes her windswept hairAround her noble shouldersIt billows out in swirling patterns ofGrey and white as she prepares forHer nightly performance She smiles seductivelyEntices her azure lover closerWhispers in their ear until they blushA deep shade of cobalt She gigglesWinks her liquid golden eyeSwipes lipstick and eye shadow across her skinUnsure ifMagentaVioletTangerineOr rubyGoes bestContinue reading “The Extravaganza”

the lone trumpeter

feet firm and apartshoulders backeyes closedlips to metaland then – the note. golden chocolate andweeping swansslide through the bell a second noteglides from the firstfades into the third and a fourtha fiftha sixth they tumble from the wallsjumble in exquisite patternstussle in a game of music they roll down the aislescrawl into the seatsslumber inContinue reading “the lone trumpeter”