the poetrty store.

I attended the Renegade Craft Fair yesterday, hoping to cross off all of the names on my list and ending up with the most special gift for... myself. A poem.

oh, these wings

      for lani

oh, these wings,

these wings!

how they open

my everything

into everything.

how they make 

infinite possibility

something

palpable as 

breath from this 

beautiful body.

- Silvi

12.17.11

What a gift she has. To learn more and to possibly find the most amazing gift for someone you love (or yourself) visit thepoetrystore.net. (and watch the video below)

And P.S. Renegade is still happening today - if you didn't make it out yesterday - GO NOW! Happy Holidays!

a desire for words from silvi alcivar on Vimeo.

bentlily poetry

The little things

I suspect

no matter how much

money I have

I will always be earnestly

delighted by

small

free

toiletries

in hotels.

loving the latest poem over at bentlily....   i so get her. :)

a poem a day.

Yesterday I tried to meditate

Yesterday I tried
to meditate
and instead of god
I was visited by
a marketing plan for
vegan eight-layer dip.

I could have felt exhausted
by my mind’s insolence.

But I decided
to heck with it
maybe I’ve let my assumptions
about meditation
crowd out the thing itself.
Maybe I’ve piled on
expectations like moss
and the truth
has gone stagnant.
Maybe I need to unpeel
my beliefs from my experiences
and let them both run naked
for a while.

So today I turned it over
to Fats Waller and let him swing
my thoughts around
eyes wide open
and I can’t say for sure
but I think that was god in the corner
doing a double-shag.

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Awesome poetry over at bentlily - a poem a day for a year to be exact.  I discovered this gem in my inbox this morning via whitehot truth .  Have officially joined the bentlily mailing list so that I might have one of these goodies in my inbox every morning...