Spring Thaw

Ice transformed by sun

into gold rivulets

with sunlight playing

on the surface

flow down streets

and onto earth,

nudging spring

into being.

Song Choice: Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles

This poem was inspired by the prompt given over at Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads, Micro-poetry challenge. 

By Rommy Cortez-Driks

A Likely Story

I think of a world without myth,

and it horrifies me.

A world with no dragons or phoenixes,

no demons or angels,

seems bland.

Oh, I know it will do for some.

And even for others,

it's a fine thing

to believe in a unicorn

encased firmly behind bars,

so long as it’s not free

to go roaming around willy-nilly.

I don’t understand myth’s hold on me.

Its power to captivate

hasn’t waned in the slightest.

I am as enthralled now

as I was when I was young.

The only difference is

the enchantment is stronger.

At home in myth's forest

I explore familiar paths,

losing myself in their wildness.

Maenad mad,

I kiss myth fully on the mouth,

hoping to get

one more story. 

By Rommy Cortez-Driks

Song Choice: Loved by the Sun by Tangerine Dream

This poem was inspired by the prompt given by A Dash of Sunny, Myth

Restraint

I know you are there, 

and the world stops.

It has to, you see.

There are too many things

pushing me, pulling me,

demanding me,

and all I can do is make sure

to save the spaces for you.

Those moments are far too few;

it’s like pointing to the moss in a sidewalk crack

calling it a garden.

Yet, they sustain me.

Here I breathe.

Here I burn.

The world starts again in those moments,

our world.

Words and sounds

sealed up in the old one

rush from me.

I cannot stop touching you.

My skin too long denied

the presence of your hands and lips

has its own demands to make,

yet delights in yielding

to the desires of yours.

Too soon
we return to where we were.

And delight must give way

to sensible adulthood,

littered with busyness.

But it only lasts,

until the next time

the world stops again,

when we can sate ourselves once more.

By Rommy Cortez-Driks

Song Choice: Love Reign O'er Me by The Who 

This poem was inspired by the prompt given over at A Dash of Sunny.