Depression chose me. It seeks in fun
typically impossible to outrun. Once
the sun dips, darkness sits
on the edge of my bed, wondering
when I’ll come out to play next.
©Jeff Flesch
#1 Amazon bestselling poet – Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]
Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women
Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press
You are love embodied always.
©Jeff Flesch
#1 Amazon bestselling poet – Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]
Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women
Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press
Rainbows speak through stained glass, sparking like diamond sand. A shower of elegance and beauty, a prism of life’s richness. Patterns folded over space and time, the realization of the universe wide.
©Jeff Flesch
#1 Amazon bestselling poet – Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]
Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women
Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press
I am paper thin, wearing a mask conditioned in absence. An act of necessity, desires’ debut and dissolution. I am emptiness, love given and suffering subdued in silence.
©Jeff Flesch
#1 Amazon bestselling poet – Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]
Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women
Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press
I am a flower petal fallen to earth, shattered. A piece in a game, a pawn in a machine. Gears turn, but no one’s home. Silent stimuli, irresistible impulse—manufactured desire. I am aware, sifting through messages of my own repair.
©Jeff Flesch
#1 Amazon bestselling poet – Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]
Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women
Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press
Love, enriched turned soil.
Mind, a splintered battered bole.
Existence reborn.
©Jeff Flesch
#1 Amazon bestselling poet – Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow.[goodreads +1]
Co-Author, #1 Amazon Bestseller, Wounds I Healed: The Poetry of Strong Women
Jan/Feb 2022 Author of the Month, Spillwords Press
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 —
existing
are two
made of one
a shadow, and a prayer
calling down the hopes of another sun
Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: sensuous, screenplay, nub. Follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here.
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, I’ve been super busy, both personally and professionally.
Personally, I’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. It’s been a wild year, full of love, light, and discomfort too, as I’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 year’s work, which requires a lot of strategic thinking and planning.
Though I’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
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 didn’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 they’ve done it before.
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
There is truth in the wind —
recognizing
the pain, and the uncomfortableness of a past
faint, and dim
yet lit brighter than any star
within
an atrocity of revelations –
understanding
this life
a way-station
and non-dual exercise
playing out in a duality of heart
and mind
Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: truth, atrocity, faint, star. Follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here.
I am doing well, and having a grand time with my new work role, and community responsibilities. Though this is true, I miss all of you and love when I have the time to come by your sites to read you and to see you.
Lately, in addition to my new work role and community responsibilities, I’ve sent out poetry to some new publications. Though I have no new pubs yet, there will be in the future, and I will update all of you as that occurs.
Lastly, here are a few pics from a recent hike. It’s so beautiful this time of year.
Sending 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
I find you in memories
crowded in the mind, and in the mist
in between
the rain —
bittersweet
am I
and in awe of a promise to keep
to you, and to me
a prized possession —
love
blossoming
underneath the mountains hearth
our home
among the chaos
and the calm of the shadowed streets
Image by TheFourthLink, Pixabay
Twitter #vss365 prompt words used: crowd, bittersweet, prize. Follow me on Twitter here, and Instagram here.
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
Shadowlight Words 