Thunder and Lightening
I hear the distant sound of thunder
feel the electricity in the air.
Like the electricity,
your voice sends tingles
up and down my spine.
Like the thunder
your distance is more
than a state of mind.
Will our combined
electricity mesh into a blinding
illumination
flashing from Heaven to Earth?
Or will the thunder
roll,
roll,
roll across the distance and
simply disperse?
The king-size bed
I haven’t slept under the covers
for months now -
it just seems too damn intimate
to crawl between clean smelling sheets
the way a couple would do.
So I lie on top of the comforter, funny;
I still sleep on one side of the bed,
covering myself with a favorite blanket,
A Christmas gift many years ago.
I don’t suck my thumb like Linus though.
I haven’t slept under the covers
for months now
and my shrink doesn’t even know.
Realms
You knocked at the door of my loneliness
meekly, cringing, reluctantly
I let you
in.
Like two beaten and battered souls
we were magnetized
to one another.
Words,
feelings,
emotions
the door slammed and bolted long ago,
opened.
Incandescent dawn inundating through
as we illuminated
to another sphere...
Stolen moments
We stole moments
like Mama's cookies
when I was a kid,
sneaking away to our secret place
to taste each other's sweet morsels.
Crisp fall afternoons
winds disrobing the oaks
of their multi-colored robes
depositing ourselves
upon natures own blanket.
All poems by Margaret C. Rigsby
(c)2002
Margaret C Rigsby lives in
northeastern Alabama where she studied at Calhoun Community
College and the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Margaret's
poems, articles and stories are widely published in cyberspace as
well as other mediums such as anthologies and literary magazines.
Margaret is also a consumer and advocate for the mentally ill
where she aspires to use her written word against the stigma of
mental illness or brain diseases.
Published in: The Burning Flame, NetSister's Newsletter,Pet Loss
Grief Support, Rainbow Bridge; The New Dawn: A New Way of
Thinking; Poetic Dreamscapes; Words Paint Pictures by J&J
Publications; Proteus Literary Magazine; Poetry DownUnder;
Lovestories.com; A Writer's Choice Literary Journal; THIS HARD
WIND; Mocha Memoirs Electronic Magazine of Short Fiction and
Poetry; Arcanum Cafe; Inscriptions; Annapolis Online Forum:
Depression & Romance; A Window on my Mind: Poetry and
Neurological Disorders; Mind Fire Poetry Journal;
"EMOTIONS" LITERARY MAGAZINE; Perspectives: A Mental
Health Magazine- Jan-Mar 99; Sonata, malryn magazine for the arts;
m.e.stubbs poetry journal, a quarterly; Poetry Magazine; Whispers
Online Magazine for Women; PoetWorks Press Anthology,
"Portals," and Anthology-on-line.
Artwork: Face by Francisco Goya
Music: Be Still
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