Sky Collection

A poem proposing marriage — At road’s end, where shores lap the mountain’s neck and wet rats dive for cover, the trout leaps up and then departs through bracelets of water, and the Whispering Wall waits like a huge stone piano of tinkled sounds. Its reservoir handrail sings the song-cycles of…

Sky Collection Quote Prompt №35 — “Then I reached forward and slipped my book right between those two authors’ books. It fit perfectly in the shadowy space between them, just as my hand had fit there when I took my oath to write a book…Nothing could take that away from me. It was as if I…

In this empty nester’s year-end agenda, these will silhouette my festivities — one ‘nother and then more bring warm fuzzies from faraway lands– U.S, U.K, New Zealand, Spain, Greece, Belize, and Finland jubilant treasures come to remind it’s Christmas ’round the world © 2022 selmamartin.com Arkquain Syllabic: 1/2/3/4-5/7/7/5-4/3/2/1 The two 7-syllable lines must use end rhyme. bought the requisite apples: nothing else…

A poem about your greatness within the family of things — for when winds start to blow dreams run afoul and answers resound more like questions so strange as is life ‘n complex’ties where sometimes some things don’t make sense take mighty mountains, brightest of stars take me or take earthworms, eggplants, or slugs all protons, neutrons — electrons like you so when the questions and their answers or resistance and rejection turn your…

A tanka — I’m dreaming of home October in Mom’s kitchen awake with eyes closed whiffs of anise and sweet clove cinnamon and pumpkin spice ​© 2022 selmamartin.com I’m sure you smell it, too — the evocative scents everywhere. And I’m not talking about the “fall” scents at candle stores that overwhelm customers…

A Poem have you ever heard a jaguar roar deep in the jungle night? I remember I will never forget that night sleeping on the jungle floor in my tiny tent I feel asleep as the rain fell and thunder rolled and I dreamed jungle dreams sleeping and dreaming dreaming and sleeping until jolted awake by the roar of a jaguar otorongo king of the jungle was…