Two Poems

Barbara Pires

Letter to Big Mama

If you are the stream
When I extend my hand into your fluid chest
Will you wrap through my fingers
Let yourself pool into my palm
So I may have a chance
To absorb you
Even if it’s a drop
You must run I know
To homes and lands who need the flow
You won’t wait for a rainy day
You remain
Ahead of our time
But stay
Long enough to fill our cups
For the glasses half empty and half full
Give me tears of all emotions
To flood those fallen of grace
And water those who have fallen
But you live inside of me
I’ll die before I forget you
Being alive is all I need
To remember the ways I’ve been loved

Poem Based on the Garden of Earthly Delights

Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights

All the world’s a carousel
The trees, flowers, fruits
Run us like the world runs
Around
Green life, brown roots, dancing blue with easy clear sky
We have no choice but to surrender our
Nature
Eden, our beginning and eventful end
The gift of bearing witness to
creation
Being in alignment with chaos
Yet out of balance in order
There’s never not a reason as to why anything is
It’s either You or us
We, angels of breath, to be blown away
When it’s all over
The blues fade together, the rainbow ends
The soil is our eternity
But this home is always in something
In becoming
In unfolding
In ending
In beginning