poetry Archives | These Three Remain

05May201505May2015

Memories of the Philippines (a poem)

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poem about the Philippines, poetry, writing, ylang ylang 0 Comment

This poem comes from a conversation that I had tonight with dear friends, she is from Iceland and he’s from the Philippines. Listening to memories of a childhood spent picking mangoes and swimming in the warm sea was poetry in and of itself. Memories of what grew in Iceland and Montana were remarkably similar and […]

01Apr2015

Chicken

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing chicken poems, poetry, TS poetry, tweetspeak poetry 0 Comment

Chicken “are you chicken,” he taunted. squint-eyed and red cheeked, with all those freckles splashed across his pug nose i look from his leering grin to my yellow flip-flop, bobbing in the pool like a duck in azure water just beyond my reach. do I stretch out to retrieve it, risk the shove i know […]

12Jul201329Jul2014

Rubicon

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Rubicon I have worn out my soles pacing this pebbled shore eyes grown weary watching the distant other I have the courage, I think to cross the water cast my paper boats adrift set them afire, watch them blaze down the river like burning stars against a watery blue sky. all that holds me here […]

02Jun201329Jul2014

In the balance

Erica Hale Poetry poetry 5 Comments

i want to lay myself down where earth meets sky and there, being neither one nor the other rest in the balance

02Dec201218Mar2015

Word Candy….

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, wordcandy 1 Comment

When did it become a foolish thing to love wholly, submit to abandon embrace the risk of passion? Who taught us to give, instead a calculated sort of love measured out in teaspoons rationed by fear? Despite convention, I wish for you the blessing of a broken heart the grace to experience the beautiful, broken […]

01Nov201218Mar2015

What Dreams….(word candy)

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, wordcandy 1 Comment

What dreams still wait behind closed doors knocking wearily longing to be heard over the din of now? Playing with Word Candy today….try your own at www.wordcandy.me

12Oct201218Mar2015

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, wordcandy 1 Comment

seeds take them in your hand spilling over through trembling fingers they pour sliding, one over another smooth brown seed coats flow broadcast them wide sweeping out let them fly through open hands released, a gift cotyledon-encased embryos sow wait for them now taking root in rich soil while your hands, empty fold and […]

13Mar201218Mar2015

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing poetry, writng prompts 2 Comments

My admiration to you who came before me, in your dress that brushes worn plank floors there in some cabin, far from everyone your hands are about laundry, your mind about the azure sky above scrubbing thread-bare daughter-dresses knuckles against the washboard and children laughing through tall grass that waves like an ocean, silvers in […]

29Jul201118Mar2015

Closer

Erica Hale Poetry, Writing photo, poetry 1 Comment

Closer In the azure place where earth and sky collide and stone rises, turns its cool face to sun’s radiant caress in the soft sound of water falling, whispering a thousand voices distant in its wake in the lush expanse of fragrant green where future meadows sway in seed-heavy blades are we closer, somehow to […]

28Oct201020Sep2015

A Poem…This Broken Faith

Erica Hale Faith, Poetry, Writing faith, poetry 3 Comments

This Broken Faith O pilgrim, know your bruised and fractured soul shines beautiful, like sunlight through the rain and though the darkness longs to claim its toll this broken faith glows brilliant though the pain. What words are there to still the baneful voice whose lies in blackest darkness now you grope? Such strength it […]