Bo Bice

bo bice

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Chicago in a Garden

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Bo Bice in Action

morning music

patchwork fields
in morning grey shades
of green and brown
color my window

the heavy air
is damp
from last night's storm
and smells of
freshly overturned earth

morning ripens
birds sing for their breakfast
welcome
the broken sunrise
creeps over clouds
that look like distant mountains

music
wanders through my thoughts
as it always does
and I wonder
where will I touch the world
today?

@Bonnie Pignatiello Leer
(Published in Juice 2008)

Salvation

your song is
sweet joy
a precious memory
always with me
warms my heart

in this world
truth is
elusive
runs with shadows
i sometimes become
lost
and find myself
alone

your smile
wide open
arms
are just for me
and bring me
peace

--bpl 5/08

Easter Morning

she twirls across the kitchen floor
her Easter dress flares around her
flower petals
open to welcome the sun

spinning back and forth
shoes click on the tile
she sees herself
reflected
in the oven door
a ballerina on the stage
Cinderella at the ball.

@Bonnie Pignatiello Leer 3/08
(Accepted for Juice 2008)

long trip home

empty corn fields
grey snow patches
salt etched pavement
this brown world
a blur in my window

yesterday music
light and sound explosion
steel strings and microphones
sweet, sad, and angry

today
just brain images
and silence

where does my finger
touch humanity?
is the world like water
or sand?
my life impression
words and images
soul of art

this brown world is dead
and cold
the horizon flat

the pictures are
all that remain

-bonnie pignatiello leer
(Accepted for Cram vol 2)

night silence

night silence
listening for child sounds
sleep talk
quiet coughs

roll out of bed
carefully step over
sleeping dogs
toy dinosaurs
miniature zebras

my son sleeps
breathes softly
swims with whales
flies with eagles
roams penguin ice

my nervous heart
calm
back to bed
sleep
dark forest dreams
placid lakes

©bonnie pignatiello leer

some more of my pics

Meerkat at the Nashville Zoo

Gone Summer

gone summer
gently embrace me
then slip away

spotlight fades
and I'm alone
with only the
drum beat resonating
your hippie dance

I've lost summer
my heart is filled
with holes
acoustic echoes
rain washed shadows

my memories
pictures of you

spring promises
you might return
warm sunlight
starlight music
where my loneliness
fades
among warm smiles
and gift dreams
come to life

bonnie pignatiello leer 1/08

My Pics

Kris Bell, Nashville TN, July 2007

What i am

i see through walls
walk on top of them
grow little flowers all over
and then break down the walls
i am seven years old
dress teddy bears as princesses
wear pink high heels
and steal mom’s makeup
i am five years old
fight with dragons
build lego skyscrapers
and fly with birds
i am a single streetlight
at the corner of the corn field
marking where civilization
meets america
i am unstructured and out there
inside and uncomfortable
proposing a turn
not caring whether you follow
can you guess?

©bonnie pignatiello leer
(Published in the Wilderness House Literary Review, Jan 2008)

One Streetlight

one streetlight
one light
for empty corn field
lone car
rabbits
mice
opossums
live there

rusty old muffler
bits of blown tires
in the gravel

a light
in my eyes
as I drive past
then darkness
with just headlights to guide me

©bonnie pignatiello leer