Crafty Presence

Dread feels like pressure. It fills all available spaces with its crafty presence. I hold onto promise, and its weightlessness, knowing anxiety is waitingโ€”I can feel it just under my skin, like tiny rivulets. As peace beckons me, a faint breeze of calming awareness hintsโ€”itโ€™s all transitory. You, me, all the things we feel and see, are all a part of the same self-created story.ย 


ยฉJeff Fleschu

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Wear and Weather

Preoccupation and persistence found

perfection.

We met under the stars, andย 

talked until dawn.ย 

You were a shadow of the clouds,

mysterious and luminous.

I hid against the sand dunes

sparkling with wear and weather.ย 

Drift wood stood between us

daring the other to signal acceptance.

Iโ€™ve seen you beforeย 

when it was impossible to say more.ย 

A faint hello was all I could manage.

I found life difficult, and struggled to

maintain balance.ย ย 

Even now, I fight with reality, did we

speak or did I imagine.ย 

A life along the sand, and in the

dunes, can bring about such damage.ย 


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



I Flew Next to The Sun

You told me to wait.

I did, and sat and drank.ย 

Troubled, with ideas blurry and blind

I fell into a hole,

and flew next to the sun. It was funย 

and stayed the same andย 

was all that anyone needed to grow.

Depression comes in waves.ย 

In a mind filled with worry, and body

filled with tension.ย 

you probably didnโ€™t knowย 

nor did you feel the need to mention.ย 

You and I always happen.ย 

The world comes into view, and with

a silent and persistent acquiescenceย 

falls away

until itโ€™s time for the next show.ย 


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



A Tempest

The waves crash.ย 

Dusted diamonds linger

upon the sand. An offeringย 

of life and death, and a reminderย 

of truth and sacrificeโ€”hypocrisy.

Love lives in all things, lasting

beyond imagination and illusions of

idlenessโ€”

hope. Tying the tide together,ย 

brings a tempest.ย 

Furious and eager, I love alone, and

pray to the one I call home.ย 


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Hidden Transformation

you are hidden from view.

recognize the truth

about who you are and want to beโ€”

desire.ย 

nourishes body and mindย 

through prescriptions of faith.

A guide to another world.

becoming apparent through hardship

and lossโ€“realizations.

through murkinessย 

and transformation foundย 

in-waiting.


ยฉJeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press



Develop. Inspire. Transform.


A Promise

Breathe

#awareness, #faith, #freedom, #inspiration, #ocean

Speak of Nothing

The truth bears witness to

the sins of our fathers. Remoteย 

undertakings sire disasters, and floodedย 

plains seek growth. New startsย 

with old beginnings, and old with newย 

speak of love.

You, me, and the price we pay

for the pain of loss. Speak of nothing,ย 

for the future tells its own story.

A tale of woe, misery, andย 

a solemn good night.ย 

Have no fear, the sun will always rise.


A Shadow, and A Prayer

Tangled weeds thread hope
and despair
through the nub of desire

a sensuous screenplay
evoking memories of you

softened by time
by the wind
and by the telepathy
between two souls destined to begin
again

one moment
mirrors the next
as time becomes irrelevant โ€”
existing

are two
made of one
a shadow, and a prayer

calling down the hopes of another sun


Image aalmeidah, Pixabay

Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: sensuous, screenplay, nub. Follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here.


Updates

It was great to drop in on a few of your sites recently and read your amazing poetry and other creative works.

This past year, Iโ€™ve been super busy, both personally and professionally.

Personally, Iโ€™ve taken to traveling and am actually currently typing this blog post in London while my life partner reads upstairs in the hotel we are staying in. Itโ€™s been a wild year, full of love, light, and discomfort too, as Iโ€™ve been asked to grow more and to grow in new ways, yet all of it has been amazing.

Professionally, I and the newly expanded team are doing well. We are currently creating the next academic yearโ€™s work, which requires a lot of strategic thinking and planning.

Though Iโ€™ve not been writing much at all, I am planning to begin to write more each week and to also visit the blogosphere as my schedule allows.

I hope you have all been well.

I am sending you all of my love and blessings.

Jeff


Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon best-selling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month



#poetry, #beginagain, #despair, #hope, #illusion, #life, #memory, #nature, #prayer, #reality, #shadow, #souls, #sun, #time

Existence Bared

I saw you once from across the room
you were there, and not.
A cataclysmic revival, and rejuvenation
found in your essence
and in your presence. Though I didnโ€™t know it then
it was only a matter of time
until we began
to move in a more choreographed way. Confiding
in each other felt like times before.
These previous lifetimes, and planes
of existence bared in the soul
between two lovers
knowing all along theyโ€™ve done it before.


Whatโ€™s New with Me

All is very well here, super busy and engaged across many projects, both personal and professional.

Due to these obligations, I am going on an indefinite hiatus. I will stop by and see all of you as I am able, and will post occasionally, yet there will be no real pattern or schedule to my posting and engagement.

I will continue to write, and submit work for publication, and I will let you know if any of those submissions result in new publications.

I also plan to continue to submit occasionally to MasticadoresUSA.

I wish you all well, and send you all of my love.

Jeff


Jeff Flesch

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow

Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women

Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press


#poetry, #connection, #essence, #extraordinary, #lifetime, #love, #nature, #poem, #presence, #realization, #romance, #soul, #transformation