Daisy Wishes






I won't write poems
about the shades
of purple that stain me

(or tell of aubergine
fading to a yellow
that never quite
dissipates)

because words
smack louder
than the closed fist.

I will not bring flowers
to the grave of my dreams,
or indulge often in tears
that taste more like regret
than the salt of the sea.

Instead, I will pull my wishes,
one by one, like flower petals

(he loves me, he loves me not)

and let the summer breeze carry them away.

 






C.E. Laine publications include Poems Niederngasse, New World Poetry, Free Zone Quarterly, Friction Magazine, 2 River View, among others. She is also a contributor to "In Their Own Words; a generation defining itself." Her other personal poetry site is called Allegory http://thispoetgirl.com/allegory
E-mail: Thispoetgirl@aol.com


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