JO DOWLING

JO DOWLING

BIDDABLE RIVER

Biddable river shines bright in the Autumn

Dance with me under the river rock cliffs

Voluptuous evergreen lips kiss the sky

Come to the river

Swim through your mind

Grape vines entwine, hiding footprints behind us

Time cannot find this oasis

Tedious urgency does not exist

Prisms refract where the river falls spray

Wade in the wonder

Bathe and create

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CRITICAL MASS

Sometimes we turn from the fire so quickly we stumble and fall in the flames and are burned

And sometimes we medicate painful mistakes with elixirs of poison or promises made

We watch as the children grow taller and stronger and cover our eyes when they break down the door

We are of thunder and rainbows, and cyclones, and northeastern winds without warning or form

We are of time and celestial planets, and volatile poisons and critical mass

We explain meaning without understanding- our senses perceive only what we believe

Humanity, fling backs the sheet from the mirror--

Focus your sight and define what you see

Quiet your mind and acknowledge your senses

Cry for humanity, tend to the bleed

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VIOLENT BLOW

Gold turns to blackness like fossil rock veins- meanings ingrained and embedded

Sadness strikes suddenly, point piercing through, wickedly splitting existence in two

Shaking from force of the violent blow- the meaning burns inward and down to the bone

The sound lasts for only one second of time, but the echo will last for an entire life

JO DOWLING

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JO DOWLINGARKANSAS USA Jo spent her early childhood in China (her birthplace), Korea, and Baghdad.  Began college at the University of Arkansas when she was 17, served in the US Marine Corps, Intelligence Division, and spent her career as a Registered and Certified Psychiatric Nurse in Little Rock, Arkansas.  She retired early and returned to her hometown, Foreman, Arkansas, where she writes and care for abandoned and abused animals.Jo Is an Author of three books, one anthology. You can find her onLulu.com and Amazon Flight of Ideas AND Welcome to the Feast was published by Watermark and is available at Amazon.