Carol McMillan's Artwork

02/14/2022

09/25/2019

I floated through tai chi this morning and wrote ten haiku about dawn on the side of a tropical volcano. Here's one.

Folding their scent for
the day, night-blooming flowers
tuck away a moth.

09/25/2019

Joy! The breeze carries
sweet whisperings. White ginger
and plumeria.

01/18/2019

Stark
And cold on
A scale beyond
Comprehension.
I stay deep inside,
Quietly resting in
Connection.

04/19/2014

Snooty Sea Shells http://wp.me/p3my2H-29

(Prompt: Take a look at a list of actual sea shell names, and use one or more of them to write a poem.) Last night did you hear Those snooty sea shells Gossiping under an incised moon? The snout otter clam with its ghostly miter Opined Jim would surely…

04/19/2014

AABA http://wp.me/s3my2H-aaba

This pitiful poem is all I can do On day seventeen of NaPoWriMo. My muse is asleep and I can’t get her up Though the month is barely half through!

04/18/2014

Poet Tree http://wp.me/p3my2H-22

I wish you to be my Poet tree And shelter me when I’m gone. You’re standing here now, Needles and boughs Whispering evening songs. I wish you to be my Sentinel tree, Drinking in dew by my grave. I wish you to be my Humorous tree, Your tickling roots…

04/17/2014

Choosing My Plot http://wp.me/p3my2H-1Y

I shall choose to lie down Beside Anna Harris, A poet and writer who Died far too young. A bench and a garden And two trees above you; They’ve tended your new grave with love. Though we never have met I shall lie down beside you; Will you know of me there…

04/15/2014

Corporate Greed http://wp.me/p3my2H-1W

The weather this morning is worthy of note; They say in Chicago you must wear a coat and snuggle a scarf On your neck and your chin, or, if you can manage, Just choose to stay in. Tornadoes and snow storms, Earthquakes and floods, Droughts and a city…

04/14/2014

Catch Her http://wp.me/p3my2H-1T

Hurry, hurry Step, step, step Two-form structures Where one might fall. Pairs and poses Look, light, quick. Catch her, No time, The one who matches. Hold her, Quick, quick Light, light Catch her Pull her Tug her The one to lean on Or she’s gone. This is…

04/13/2014

Please Be My Whimsy http://wp.me/p3my2H-1R

Please won’t you frolic me? Please be my whimsy? My shimmy? Please be my new BFF. Pull me and balance me, Stretch me and touch me. Take me on rides Where I never have been. I want to play leap frog. Please ring my rosey. I’m standing outside…