Breathe Permission

Dear Poet

Dear Poet,

Breathe permission

on my heart

allow its fullness

to spill onto pages

with passion’s force

pushing to heights

I only thought

a dream

Open its doors

freeing dormant years

behind bars of society

crying release

from painful incarceration

Bestow the gift of abandon

unrestrained imagination

pouring through pen

without thoughts 

of judgement

only thoughts

of the privilege

to exist…

Dear Poet,

Breathe permission

*

©MidwestFantasy

February 2019

Painting- “Silent Prayer” by Anna Razumovskaya

Writer’s Silence

Monica

A writer lives

in a world of silence

sometimes welcome calm

other times deafening torment

the heart may beat

words falling into place

like good little soldiers

or it may stutter and stammer

at a loss to find rhythm

or any sense

wretched cycles

from morning’s light

to midnight darkness

absent sounds of a soul

searching for a breath of life

©MidwestFantasy

November 2018

Ph-Nubar Alexanian