Journey of the Heart

April Blue     This is when we search for color to transform cold grey. Rainfall begins its magic  high lighting sky blue.   We see stacks of luminous clouds as plants pop out and forsythia  bursts into sparkling yellow stalks. Just today a breath of warmth brought alive crepe myrtle buds.   Aromatic lilac bushes cluster in soft bunches while birds and bugs encircle them.  Ten pretty trees all dressed up in lustrous greens boogie through noontime breezes.   Get ready for this blast-off of spring! Green Rain I woke up looked out my window and saw green  pouring down.   Trees cascading over emerald grass.   This noon swollen wet bursting water.   Now even heaven is tinted jade  as birds linger  under branches  listening. Joan McNerney :   Joan's poetry is found in many literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  Four Bright Hil...

A glimpse of spring   shy blue morning black trees etch sky   children skipping over puddles   bramble on snow soft birdsong   listening to water race downstream   winds gently kiss my forehead   grass shoots push through first thaw Joan McNerney :   Joan's poetry is found in many literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Journals, and numerous Poets' Espresso Reviews have accepted her work.  She has four Best of the Net nominations.  Her latest title is  The Muse in Miniature ,  available on  Amazon.com  and  Cyberwit.net *For submission guidelines,  click here. *

    Imagine    Imagine to be a bird slicing air with wings.   Up up over that horizon soaring through clouds away from solemn earth.   Shining, shimmering   far above this sphere into  clear blue light.    Cutting through sky gliding over oceans eyes open all seeing.   Awake all day all night brushing rushing  against the four winds.   Imagine to be a bird.  Joan McNerney :   Joan's poetry is found in many literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Poet Warriors, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Journals, and numerous Poets' Espresso Reviews have accepted her work.  She has four Best of the Net nominations.  Her latest title is The Muse in Miniature ,  available on  Amazon.com  and  Cyberwit.net *For submission guidelines,  click here. *