Spark 50 – SPARK http://getsparked.org get together | get creative | get sparked! Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:55:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.8 Susan Burton and Kamika Cooper http://getsparked.org/spark50/susan-burton-and-kamika-cooper Sun, 06 Mar 2022 02:30:36 +0000 http://getsparked.org/?p=18632

Susan Burton
“Below”
Digital art
Response

Countdown
By Kamika Cooper
Inspiration piece

7
rest easy knowing
there is peace in your silence
so run your mouth less

6
we see you in need
down on the train station floor
and just walk away

5
i am wondering
is this intended for us
or solely for you

4
don’t ask the questions
you don’t want the answers to
it may not go well

3
decades of grieving
keep you trapped in yesterday
can’t function today

2
i have been too nice
a lying shell of myself
and now i hate you

1
work done hard and well
rewards you with more hard work
i prefer hard cash

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Susan Burton
“Ice Cream”
Digital art, photography
Inspiration piece

Quarantine
By Kamika Cooper
Response

i remain inside
pretending i am outside
for a while that works

scroll tap click checkout
any little thing i want
here in an hour

staring at these screens
the chairs and i are now one
to stand and walk hurts

this is my safe space
filled with tasty unsafe things
to fill all my holes

screens and sweetened things
once a cure for my sadness
weighing me down now

awaiting rescue
is pointless so i must stand
correct my posture

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]]> Linda Mitchell and Margaret Simon http://getsparked.org/spark50/linda-mitchell-margaret-simon Sat, 05 Mar 2022 17:06:55 +0000 http://getsparked.org/?p=18589 Linda Mitchell
Half-Hearted Love
Response

Half-Hearted Love
By Margaret Simon
Inspiration piece

Butterflies open wings
gripping cellophane shells.

Overnight the light changed,

a metamorphosis for the season.
Paperwhite blossoms pop on grass.

The yellow house with the wrap-around

porch flies an American flag in the midst
of rusty farming equipment set in a circle
like a sculpture garden, garden of ghosts
hanging low on moss-covered oaks
twisting my words in the wind,
“What’s love got to do with it?” 

I give my love every day,

a slice of chocolate,

a soft rose petal 
oh, yes, this 

poem is 

yours,

Love!  

 

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