
winding forest path
light penetrates
leaves refracting space
© May 2018 Renee Espriu

winding forest path
light penetrates
leaves refracting space
© May 2018 Renee Espriu
dreams are like the sweet smell
of ambrosia
not like
the bitter of coffee
before her
she sits by the restaurant window
staring at nothing
and seeing everything
perhaps she sees her life
without children
running about
demanding
time
time she doesn’t have and
does not have to give
for life should chord
space and quiet
life should be filled
with writing muses
laced with rainbows
filled with artist
paper
& tools for both
housed in a place
beneath
trees
sprinkled with star dust
a place with fields of
wild flowers so
she can commune
with nature
with her
soul
she is lost in her thoughts
as the restaurant
comes to life
around her
with the laughter of
children
playing
she is reminded that life
hinges on choices
of ambivalence
like her food
turning cold
it is only
new
within the essence
of the moment
© September 2017 Renee Espriu
This is in response to Jamie Dede’s Wednesday Prompt. Read more at
https://jamiededes.com/2017/09/13/hes-a-tumble-weed-a-poem-and-your-wednesday-writing-prompt. The photo below was taken from Morgue File & digitally altered.

Flood waters have
subsided
irrelevant of the
time and space
left between
as differentially
notations are jotted
down in betwixt
margins
in my mind
filtered down
amongst
darkened hallways
secreted away in
shadows hiding you
from me erudite
of those times
when bewildered by
your bravery
I would glance
skyward and finding
you there was
filled with wonder
you extend your arms
to me laughing
exposing a
reality
your revelation
 but my ephihany of
living fearless as
you enfold me
warmly melting
away all
sorrow
in invitation to
your treetop canopy
where the waters
have left you
I contemplate if
this is a dream…or
something
much more
© February 2012
Renee Espriu
I dreamt of my oldest daughter who has Lupus and is presently not doing very well, a surgery pending and perhaps another…we aren’t sure…and felt it had to be written down.