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Nancy Katherine Jan 2012
Each year, each winter, each time
the first snow falls
familiar feelings fall with it.

Clean, dense white traverses
heaven to earth.

All covered, cottoned and calm,
I stand watching,
muted now as earth,
sure, silent and certain
as my own inevitable death.
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
I've come to find that every year
after dark on Christmas Eve,
my Heart and Mind meet without fear
at the corner of Bitter and Sweet.

They seem to laugh and chat and grieve.
Both have Her own agenda.
Each others'  burdens they relieve
on the corner of Bitter and Sweet.

Their topics differ wildly.
I'm not privy to them early.
They always part quite mildly
from the corner of Bitter and Sweet.

Their opinions vary without exception.
I now wait and let them linger.
They come from differing direction,
to the corner of Bitter and Sweet.

The other times they meet -then leave,
it's always unexpected.
I relish their meeting on Christmas Eve
under the lamppost of Bitter and Sweet.
To John
Dec 2011 · 957
Evening
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
Light blushing through trees,
     my journey ends, dawn to dusk.
          Evening always comes.
Dec 2011 · 682
For A, K & J
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
Admittedly it's true.
I am biased over you.
Rose color skews my view,
while there's nothing I can do.
My predilection dears?
**That's you!
Love,
   Mom
Dec 2011 · 661
Marriage
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
If your
battlefield
is marriage,
then winning
is
definitely
losing.
Learned the long, hard way.
Dec 2011 · 3.0k
A Flattering Distance
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
Like poppies,
some days
I
am better
viewed from afar.
Dec 2011 · 642
Hang Up
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
He often asks,
"Why can't you say it?"
I blush.
Dec 2011 · 705
Waves of Water
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
Through every door and window,
gushes the water of my discontent.
Currents of his resentment pour through.
Waves of Water

A futile try
to hold back the tide of my anger.
I turn in time to watch
our marriage
float away,
one more dead and stinking fish.
Dec 2011 · 955
10 Word Poem
Nancy Katherine Dec 2011
...to start again.* I want to start again.* I want...
Nov 2011 · 1.4k
Winning?
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
You won and won
again
Pyrrhic victories
lost your
war
One of my new favorite words!
A Pyrrhric victory : a victory whose costs outweigh any advantage that may have been gained.
Neat history on the origin of this noun, if you're interested.
Nov 2011 · 510
Time Runs Hard
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
Thoughts fly through memories
past time run hard,
followed fast by experience.

(Eyes coax out smiles,
lips reach each jut and hollow,
blessed sturdy hands hold on)

With blind bias
I am completely
   u n d o n e
Nov 2011 · 713
blue
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
why is
the blue of your
eyes
always a surprise?
Nov 2011 · 611
Wince (10 word poem)
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
Are you
my detour,
my shifting road,
my dead-end street?
Nov 2011 · 517
Better Yet
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
Better
than
a new lover
is
a newly born
baby.
Nov 2011 · 756
Text Message
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
"long day, long week and want to be in your arms forgetting all about it"

Is this love?
Someone safe, trusted to hold on as you let go?
So comforting they make
all your day's, week's, work's worry forgettable?
And you, like a beaded necklace,
suddenly come unstrung?
Oblivious,
as your beads
bounce and roll
wherever
they
will.
This started me thinking after a text message I received.
Nov 2011 · 510
October 19th 10:54pm
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
In one hour, six minutes of real time
this weekend will end.
These minutes,
already moving into memory,
will exist outside of time.

I will keep these
past tomorrow,
        past later,        
past when I am old.

I will remember smiling;
to think about you,
about me,
about when...I loved you well.
Nov 2011 · 765
I Learned
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
Plate - Fork - Spoon - Knife
I used to be somebody's wife.

Smile - Laugh - Frown - Cry
Twenty years went awry.

Generous - Frugal - Cheap - Miser
Old friends said I'd end up wiser.

Red - Green - Purple - Blue
Now I'm sure this much is true.

Wind - Snow - Rain - Sun
I'll never keep a loaded gun.
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
balanced
broad breaths,
bed quilts slid sideways,
sunken
sudden sleep
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
Kissing me,
you hold my head hard.
Your fingers tangled in my hair
to turn my head.
For one quick second
I wonder
if you could break my neck.
Nov 2011 · 563
Larger Truths
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
Feeling for truth I'm afraid to find
MY HANDS
plunged in past my elbows.
GOOD OR GONE,
doubt riddles me like winter weather.

Fissures worn through the pan;
MY DAY.
Not bailing, I sift..
catching only truth too large
to fall through the
CRACKS.
Nancy Katherine Nov 2011
My warm hands wander
'round your collar and down,
******* each buttoned button,
over crisp cuffs.

The edge of cotton white
at the slide of your neck.
One curved ear draws my fingers
into your hair...

My mind is gone.
You are my body,
                         my bias,
                                   my best.
Oct 2011 · 576
Center of Night
Nancy Katherine Oct 2011
In the center of night,
I search for the sleep of a shipwrecked sailor,
adrift through this house
that was never mine.
Oct 2011 · 483
Morning
Nancy Katherine Oct 2011
In that moment
When my body starts to wake
But my mind lags behind,
I often reach for you
And never understand
Why you're not there.

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