Archive | December 2012

12/20/2012 – Patricia A. Hawkenson’s Reflections – Writer’s Digest TOP 25!

I am VERY PROUD to announce that my poem ‘Plum Crazy’ was listed in the TOP 25 poems during the 2012 Poetic Aside’s April PAD Challenge! (Hundreds of poets and thousands of submissions!)

Plum Crazy

William Carlos Williams
was lucky.

He had a forgiving partner
who was able to imagine
the delicious, sweet
and so cold plums
and settle for flakes
that probably weren’t so
forgiving
and quickly limped
into a soggy mess.

And even though
his apology was so
cleverly written that it is still
read and reread
long after iceboxes
have turned into Frigidaire’s,

I would have smacked him
with a frozen leg of lamb.

Forgive me,
I am so cold.

12/10/2012 – Patricia A. Hawkenson’s Reflections – In a Perfect World

In a Perfect World

The world outside
where children giggled
and mothers shushed
was never kind
so her music
rarely left her porch.

Yet I longed to enter
her lavender house
through ribbons
that fluttered
instead of curtains
where I could see
her dance in purple
eating lilac cookies
with calming tea.

And we
could be the change
inside.

12/05/2012 – Patricia A. Hawkenson’s Reflections – She Throws Him Out Like an Old Candy Wrapper

She Throws Him Out Like an Old Candy Wrapper

Needing a hug,
hunger fights for its rightful place.
Needing a hug,
no therapeutic masking drug,
nor melting caramel tongue embrace,
fills her longing, desolate space
needing a hug.

12/02/2012 – Patricia A. Hawkenson’s Reflections – Let the Puppy Off His Leash

Let the Puppy Off His Leash

Sometimes things you try to hold on to
shouldn’t go together.
Like wearing a business suit
to the beach,
refined, dignified,
you keep your shoes on.

If only you would
strip off your façade,
put your toes into the water,
and allow the waves
to wash like puppy kisses
your ankles clean
of the crap
you walked them through.

The stench
of your mistakes
wouldn’t follow you
today.