Boston Thek Imagery

Poems from a recently found book I wrote as a young woman

Poems from a recently found book I wrote as a young woman

Poems from a recently found book I wrote as a young woman

Letting Go

With tentative fingers
I release my grasp
One tired finger at a time

Like a child
I open my clutched hand
Feeling it slip away
Filling me with apprehension and delight
…

At Season’s End

Catapulted through the landscape
As if shot by a canon
I propel myself through summer’s dry fields

The rushing sound of the bailers
Sound out the end of another seaso…

My beloved poppies are starting to fade
Trampled down by heavy rains
Tossed about like colorful rag dolls
I lay on the humid grass
The rain touches my skin gently
A new perspective on th…

To work all her own
This bit of Earth
Provides and nurtures
From morning till the summer sun sleeps
she is ageless like the earth she works
with hands which reveal to the world
Her daily …

From deep inside his pocket
Clutched tenderly
like the memories themselves
Faded and worn

Hands etched with time
the maestro tools
busily flattening each crease
reliving moment by mome…

Overwhelmed by the scent
Peaches ripening
Standing..Smiling
Face turned to the bright sunlight
The orchard
Blue skies
Green grass
Intensely colored fruit
Clinging in clutches
Surrounding me

Upward they scattered furiously
I wandered the barren rows
Lost in the remembrance of warmer days

Bare limbs echo my heart
Fruitless in longing

Skyward they travel
Limitless in their …

I thought of you today
While walking in the sleeping vineyard
Touching my lips, they remember your kiss

Like dried and yellowed photographs
the landscape and these memories
spread out be…