Featured Poet: Gina Alyse

Potpourri

by Gina Apperson

To someone else

Dried flowers may seem better

Than a collection of random

Literary extracts.

An extract of honey perfume

May smell more welcoming

Than the crisp paper pages

My fingers hold.

A diamond ring that flashes

With every change of light

May bedazzle more brilliantly

Than the next metaphor listed.

In fact the next hidden meaning

Of this delicate language

May just go unnoticed

As clouds spiral day by day,

Making curtains in the air.

Such curtain, only of lies,

Would then feel softer

Than the quiet melody

Of missing voices

In the beryl skies.

And the sweet music that vibrates

Daily instead

Would sound better

Than the flawless flow

Of words voiced with strong soul

To someone else.

But never am I

This someone else.

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Featured Poet: Gina Alyse is a delight. She keeps an eclectic blog where she catalogues her interests and daily musings, and she was kind enough to feature some of my work.  "Potpourri" has such a calm rhythm to it. I especially love the lines "as clouds spiral day by day, making curtains in the air." Such a lovely image.