I won't

I’m calling this a list poem.

Here are eleven lines from I won’t:

 

I won’t make the bed today

I’ll get up, but

 

I won’t pull the drapes, but

I’ll open the windows

 

I’ll get dressed, but

I won’t put on my shoes

 

if I walk in the bedroom today

if I feel like lying down

 

I won’t need to remove my shoes

close the drapes

unmake the bed

 

© 8 January 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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prodigal

Seven lines from prodigal:

he’s a prodigal

a prodigal who won’t return

doesn’t want to

won’t

ever

 

can a prodigal be a prodigal if he

will never return?

 

© 9 January 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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I love

It’s almost St. Valentine’s Day.

Here are the first, third, and seventh stanzas from I love:

this man

fun

kind

maddening

loyal

he’ll love me when my face

is decrepit paint

 

I love this man loves me when I am a bad weather morning

when I am more than just rain

I am lightning           thunder          deluge            mudslide

I am a hurrirain

I love he rolls his eyes when I make up words

 

he makes me want more

secrets

a sleepover nightcap

tomorrow morning breakfast pajamas on the patio

I brush against beauty each time we pass in the kitchen

 

© 10 January 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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I want to forget I'm not enough

Here’s my opening stanza and the fourth from

I want to forget I’m not enough:

 

I’m not Jesus

I can’t continue to knock

knock

knock again

when someone doesn’t want to open their door

 

I’m not enough isn’t quite as bad as it was when I cared

it’s worse when I’m quiet

when I’m shaving away old cheese

when I tap my screw driver on the edge of a sink

watch flecks of rust fall on white porcelain like

dried blood

 

© 18 August 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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supplicate

This poem is still in edit mode.  Don’t know when I’ll be satisfied, because I find stuff to edit even after pieces are published. 

Here are some lines from 4 stanzas of supplicate:

my feet splosh putrid water

throw me a titanium rescue chain

draw me from my well dregs

 

I’m dichotomy

I’m devout

I’m detached

I’m kind

I’m callous

 

titanium seizes me, a treasure it presumes I am

 

I’m nothing

I’m everything

I’m nothing at all

I’m every

single

thing

 

© 1 January 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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