by MelinaMeza | Mar 24, 2021 | Poetry
WHEN GREAT TREES FALL When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests,small things recoil into silence,their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls...
by MelinaMeza | Mar 24, 2021 | Poetry
HORSEBACK ON SUNDAY MORNING Horseback on Sunday morning,harvest over, we taste persimmonand wild grape, sharp sweetof summer’s end. In time’s mazeover the fall fields, we name namesthat went west from here, namesthat rest on graves. We opena persimmon seed...
by MelinaMeza | Mar 26, 2021 | Poetry
The Laughing Heart your life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you...
by MelinaMeza | Mar 24, 2021 | Poetry
Lucille Clifton won’t you celebrate with mewhat I have shaped intoa kind of life? I had no modelborn in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did I see to be except myself?i made it uphere on this bridge betweenstarshine and claymy one hand holding tightmy other...
by MelinaMeza | Jan 30, 2021 | Poetry
“Nature” is what we see—The Hill—the AfternoonSquirrel—Eclipse— the Bumble beeNay—Nature is Heaven—Nature is what we hear—The Bobolink—the Sea—Thunder—the Cricket—Nay—Nature is Harmony—Nature is what we know—Yet have no art to say—So impotentOur Wisdom is To her...
by MelinaMeza | Feb 16, 2021 | Poetry
The Call to Deeper Practice The call to deeper practice comes, and I respond before I catch myself.All that I am is drawn inside as if pulled by the strongest tide, a current flowing in only one direction.What does this practice look like?Slow movement paired with...
