Blog posts featuring poems I have written, including published and unpublished pieces, as well as poetic inspiration, poetry events, influential poets, and more.
Intro (4/4 x8) VERSE 1: (pause 4 beats) It came so unexpected.I wasn’t even looking.The night when I first met youis now my favorite Halloween. A real conversationa willing explorationVibing like the trebleand bass on another level. I started singing shyly,With you dancing beside me.But you broke out your guitar,And I let out a big… Continue reading The Beauty of Cyan (Poem + Lyrics)
Getting to know you Feels like catching up with an old friend....
I fill you You hold me up Reflections As above, so below Flowing, spirits at play basking in the moonlight A connection that remains when words are unspoken The waiting, the arrival one kiss – a token that means everything ### Photo by Elizaveta Dushechkina from Pexels
I do not ask, And yet, you give freely. As you receive, You do so willingly. And the dance we share gives her nourishment and the Muse his inspiration. We fill each other’s cup back and forth, an improvised act of kindness of a shared language only we speak. And at the end of the… Continue reading “To My Muse” (A Poem)
The Art of Storytelling by Leslie I. Benson 