Unheard Incantations: A Collaborative Poem

The words we cannot say Will be wept Into silence between us (CER) Breathe deep, dear love; Be still with me Listen to my heartstrings A song meant just for you (KMA) Each tear An eloquent elegy To tortured truths (AP) Each note played On a hand carved lute Strung with strips Of my soul

Stirring- a Collaborative Poem from Christine Ray, Aurora Phoenix, and Kindra M. Austin

Your swift flowing water Elusive, quicksilver Brushes past my shores Licking my roughing grains burgeoning a flash flood Tributaries cut into earth New veins carry fresh lifeblood Awakening me from long slumber longing rippling outward concentric circles lapping by turns urgent and languid your ebb begets my flow See the colors of infant life sprouting