written under Judy Breneman's pen name "Anne Johnson"
Pantoums
DESERT DAWNING
"The desert awakes with a whispered sigh."
TRAIN DREAMS WEAVING
"I hear a haunting sound, a distant train,"
THE VISIT
"She's forgotten who I am, convinced I'm her sister."
VESPERTINE "Catkin sniffs the evening air, nocturnal fragrances drift by."
Other Forms
DAYBREAK
"She wakes at dawn goes down the stairs."
FOOLISH MUSE
"I fear she must have wandered far away;"
IMAGERY
"Tree branches glisten white Pillows of snow"
ON WHY I'M NOT WRITING A SONNET TODAY
"How weighty is the need to write it right,"
PICTURE FROM THE PAST
"Somehow the smile upon your face"
SUMMER HAIKU
"wind, rain and darkness heaviness pervades the earth"
TIMOROUS
"She ventured out and softly shut the door"
THE WATER DRAGON
"Alone she swims in murky depths below."
Free Verse
TRANSFIGURATION
"distant mountains soft dun profile barely noticed"
AWAKENING
"Somnolent waves of
shifting consciousness"
THE BOX
"Possibilities dance in her head."
BUTTERFLY DREAMS
"butterflies fade drift to the ground"
COLD DAWN
"I wake to a chill dawn no longer who I was…"
COMFORT OF WINTER
"Winter was a comfort, darkness gently wrapped"
COVETOUS
"Perhaps this envy is a necessary rite"
DAWN'S GIFT
"Silver bodies formed of morning mist;"
EARTH PLEDGE
"~ that I may remember soft vision,"
THE GRANDMOTHERS' GRANDMOTHER
"It comes to us all, every woman,"
GREAT BLUE
"Carried by spring on wings of grace,"
INDIAN SUMMER
"I cannot believe it is the cold that impels grasses"
QUILTED REVERIE
"Eager hands caress resonant textures of cloth;"
A SENSE OF LOSS
"Swirling mist of memories ebb and flow"
SOLSTICE
"dawn creeps in crystal clear intrepid"
TURTLE WOMAN
"I have, at last become the turtle who has been waiting,"
RIVER CRESTS
"Swells surge beneath raging foam."
"Imagery" is published as "Untitled" in the poetry collection, "Women on a Wire"
"Daybreak" is published in the newsletter, "Hestia's Voice"
"Train Dreams Weaving" is published in the journal "Norman's Choir"
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