SUSAN JOYNER-STUMPF

SUSAN

JOYNER-STUMPF

SOUL’S RELEASE

You will know of truths

They scrape your cells

You will feel the whir,

The adagio of their tailwind,

Touching you like a

Myriad of pearled feathers

Ancient whispers

Awakened noumenon

Fabric opening of cognition

Sanguine moments, stilled

Rippling time a voluble blip

In your restive heart-star

Winking at the semi-darkness

Candle on the ocean’s scar

Thoughts ~ ~ … life forms

Of their own massed holograph,

Kaleidoscopic orbs

Re-circling the vacuum of

What once was of cranial dust

Now transcendent-luminous

Echelon of Earth’s God-stroked genesis

Fingering of divine tracing beam

That then became inculcated Sapiens

In those ruminate clouds where

Slipstream dreams are swallowed

A greater force is recognized,

Finds its collided deluge

Its then-fling with death’s tiny surprise

A taste that immortality seizes from a ‘high!

Passion’s aurora gate, amber-ridden bliss

The folds that cupped my mortal sting

Are now my Soul’s Release.

Copyright © Susan Joyner-Stumpf ®

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SO BEAUTIFUL. SO GONE

(Written for my dog Bear, anniversary of

his death July 5th, 2015)

The doorman won’t show me the door, he said,

because I’ve already walked through that threshold of pain

no coming back; no turning back.

my dog for whom I grieved,

so beautiful.

so gone.

The carpenter won’t show me the window, she said,

because my spirit has flown through it to the other side

no looking back; no crawling back.

my dog for whom I went looking for,

so beautiful.

so gone.

Family, friends are calling me, they say

but I can’t hear them, I’m so far away

this part of me that died has left the heart

torn inside out, the twisted gut of tears

leaking their way to a gentler Heaven

no turning back, oh no ~ do you hear me

for whom I grieve?

both of US,

so beautiful.

so gone.

Copyright © Susan Joyner-Stumpf ®

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SOUL-STAR

Inside my linear brokenness

Beneath the skin’s graffiti

You will find crimson, star-lit ringlets

Of unwept tears

They don’t want to weep

They rise like doves to drink your empathy

That doesn’t blame nor feel sorry for the victim,

Only the blinking scar.

They float, anatomically attached to walls

Of singing hope’s whispering desire

Fragile amulets of diamond Myrrh

Like gifts from a goddess, demure

Streaming through the veins of your everglades.

We exist in a Snow-Globe

Of insatiable star-fall

Meteor sprinkles of cosmic interludes

Summoning patterns of ageless inquisition

Seeking the child, within

Healing the aftermaths, holocaustic storms

That raped innocence and left the sin

To bleed there in a Black Hole’s gaping abdomen.

How kindness adheres to my bones, like glass

A prism reflecting your love

Strobe-light of pulsing touch

Fiery enclaves of electric sting.

You reach inside me, pull out the Rose,

And leave all the thorns to die.

Copyright ©

Susan Joyner-Stumpf ®

SUSAN JOYNER-STUMPF was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana but now calls the Colorado Rockies her home.  She resides with her husband and a menagerie of animal children.  She has been writing since the age of seven, now a writing career that spans over forty years.  Susan writes not only Poetry, but Short Stories, Prose, Songs and has a novel in the Works called LOVE YOU TO PIECES, DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER.  As of this writing, Susan has published her 30th book and appears in over 12 International Anthologies.  She has won multiple awards.

As a writer Susan has always strived to touch another Soul with her words. Her passion is to write. Fame and fortune were never a thought. It was always about touching another life with her words. She has many projects in the works. Susan is also a Certified Graphics Artist and offers publishing services with her company WILDFIRE PUBLICATIONS where she publishes authors and does their book covers.  Her other company, WILDFIRE PRODUCTIONS, creates 3-D Live Stream Videos for Author’s Book trailers or personal videos of whatever the customer wants. She runs a growing Poetry Page on Facebook called POTPOURRI POETS/ARTISTS WRITING COMMUNITY.  After the first of the New Year, Susan will have her own Blog Radio Show called RHYTHM AND MUSE INTERVIEWS.  She loves helping and encouraging other writers, and finds it very rewarding.