Tag: my poetry

• “Another Water”

  by Jade Nicole Beals (first written Jul. 9, ‘22) Could stop you as if with a kiss. You said you’d seen your heart like ice— I’d found it like sweet ice, essentially fruit, melting into renewed strength. I’ve thought of you as pure onyx, an emerald afire, glowing the whole sunset hour, cooling in the […]

  09/29/2022 1:45 pm

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• “The Pinnacle”

  There was a plea from you to forget the scales as the music fell from all around you, and little cue notes drifted into my sleep, like windows in my dreams looking out, and you smiling through you as you know you are the dream come true, the scales returning to the music and world, […]

  09/24/2022 7:58 am

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• “A Wish in a Spiral”

  It is not the heat of high summer, It’s the morning dropping cool so soon, and she has me see what’s sweet, feel sweet and fun… My heart’s spinning fast and warm again like a little music box that’s just been spun, my eyes and lashes, my nose, and the tiny teardrop shape just above […]

  09/24/2022 7:29 am

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• “Beside the Little Tray of Strawberries”

  Beside the Little Tray of Strawberries The bath is ready, the lavender soap block rinsed into the water, and on the ledge, I’d placed a little tray of fresh strawberries also water rinsed, two slices of cucumber pairs to place upon my very tired closed eyes—My host and wiser editor reminds me of the beauty […]

  07/05/2022 9:15 am

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• “Friday Night Line of Wisdom”

  Friday Night Line of Wisdom I am all out of wisdom I could tell you; I could almost lift off the floor in flight for that: let’s read books and comb our hair through and place coconut on our skin and calves, can apply a little to the eyelashes on a clear mascara brush too…Let’s […]

  07/04/2022 10:39 am

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• “In the Deep, Unexpected Dark”

  May 18, 2022 In the Deep, Unexpected Dark —for May Ziadeh I cried my tears. I cried your tears on your behalf. I cried in the places where your tears melted and trickled towards mine. I felt your fears and my themes passing through me and on… I looked into your years, and wants, and […]

  07/04/2022 8:00 am

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• “This Is…”

  May 2022 This Is… Humidity. This is the red flower moon full of… This is an anonymous lady shouting out (while grilling me) “Don’t be sorry, honey!” [to a man with her] of me, after there was no altercation, but only kindly manners, as he’d come quickly around a hidden bend, jogging toward my cart […]

  07/02/2022 5:21 pm

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• “As If I Had Been the Harp Then and the Hidden Music”

  —for Miss May Ziadeh You were close to me last night with your compassion and how you were cherishing me; I felt the feather-soft way your fingers moved through my hair, the shape of your hands familiar and welcome…You placed your face close to mine and whispered in my ear a little while, quick soft […]

  06/18/2022 4:36 pm

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• “Without Question”

  

  roses, high noon (a quatrain) I used to fear the night, but ’round your head, there was a glow. I liked it better than the sun, It was love, I was yet to know. —Jade

  05/31/2022 12:07 pm

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• “#1”

  As I listen to the flying birds singing far off and continuously…These still words land within my resting hands, bridging all my distances… —Jade

  05/25/2022 9:12 am

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• “#2”

  With you, there is another world layered over this one. It’s so translucent and wondrously original, I’ve said. You ask if there is quality glass shielding all this. There is, I reply, but it feels like the edges are useless… —Jade

  05/25/2022 8:44 am

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• “The Reddest Leaves”

  Don’t talk about the dream aloud, so I see that little brown, glossy-coated bear running low to the ground and coming toward me in the solitary, unmoving morning air, beside the outside gate of the swimming pool, and in the dream, I consider, if I don’t glare at the bear, if I act kindly, it […]

  05/16/2022 2:44 pm

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• “Who Knew”

  Calm, I knew well, interlocked, entwined with mine. Superior, yet open always…first, that certain pale blue, the expansiveness that is close, contentment…Trust, feel safe with my soul-friend; I’d heard from others you looking down often, none of your little news, and mostly I’ve been looking up since I would look, meet both places, eyes meet […]

  05/10/2022 9:18 pm

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• “The Castle Tower”

  

  The Castle Tower a pantoum by Jade Nicole Beals You’ve said I am entwined with the numberless. The castle tower trades its lace for the sky. All night, the tower climbs in secret, spinning its uppermost lace into the finest clouds. Please place your hands upon mine. The castle tower trades its lace for the […]

  04/25/2022 7:36 pm

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• My Poem in Lothlorien Journal

  A poem I wrote has been published in Lothlorien Journal, this one I wrote as a creative response to a poem by author Jason Preu. Read my poem in Lothlorien.

  04/25/2022 9:18 am

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• “I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird”

  

  featured photo is a painting by Franz Marc, “Birds” (1914) I Wondered if I Had Been a Bird by Jade Nicole Beals for May Ziadeh (b. 1886 – 1941) I was very disturbed when what I’d found logical what could explain all this is that I could’ve been a bird before this. A canary, your […]

  04/07/2022 8:32 pm

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• “A Villanelle for the Times”

  

  You might remember when I was writing a villanelle poem, wanting to try another traditional form, as I’d written my first ghazal at the time and a sonnet, but I didn’t like the draft or that particular form for the idea. I transformed that villanelle into a ghazal, and I was happy with that latest […]

  04/05/2022 3:04 pm

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• “A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You The Sun” 

  

  Enjoy my second ghazal poem I wrote, just complete. You can listen to me reading it aloud…and read it on the page. A Ghazal for When I’d Known I Shouldn’t Try to Give You the Sun I am standing far below the sun in gold and I am star-following the best below, all in gold. My skin […]

  03/23/2022 9:31 pm

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• Indelible Magazine Poetry Launch—Reading My Poem, ‘Droplets Slide Down the Pine and Land Upon the Grass Within a Slow Dance’

  

  Updated to include end of post section, “Who’s May Ziadeh? ”* It’s here! Link: https://youtu.be/Cr-CsXJWum0 🎥🎤📜 I am on just around the 28:50 mark.😊After my line in the poem, ”Do you hear me?” I hear a reply. 😀😅💕 Afterwards, you may also see me give a pretty long answer to a surprise question that I […]

  03/14/2022 6:34 pm

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• Two Poems of Mine Published in Indelible

  

  My two poems, “This Ring” and “Droplets Slide Down the Pine and Land Upon the Grass Within a Slow Dance” are in print today in the latest issue of Indelible, an online literary and arts magazine, Issue #6, “The Feminine.” To read my two poems in Indelible, click This Ring and Other Poem, by Jade […]

  03/08/2022 7:09 am

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• “A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake”

  

  my own photo, local garden in massachusetts, september The sonnet I wrote I’ve been telling you about was just published on Lothlorien Poetry Journal today! Here it is: ”A Sonnet Flowing Upon A Lake.” —Jade

  02/25/2022 6:14 pm

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• “This Ring”

  

  While writing poems for my third book, I’ve found it refreshing to look through traditional forms to try to write and include them along with my free verse poems. The first of those forms I tried to write for this book is a ghazal and it’s fit well with that form originating in the Middle […]

  11/29/2021 12:17 pm

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• A Letter To Honor Poet May Ziadeh and Two of Her Poems, Eighty Years Later

  

  Featured again today on the blog with affection💕🙏… for May Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021 after her first poetry book, Dream Flowers May Ziadeh writes: “I hope that after my death someone will do justice to me and extract from my small writings the truthfulness and sincerity it contains!!” b. Feb. 11, 1886 – d. Oct. […]

  10/17/2021 9:53 am

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• “It’s True, Sometimes I Spin”

  —From A Little Honey Sweetens the Flame (2021) I will spin around with as much space as there is. I will spin again. I will raise my arms and open my hands as a flower opening in moonlight. I will open my arms wider to send this all outward and I will lift my arms […]

  02/27/2021 11:30 pm

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• A Thought Before Night And For The Night

  The time I had run not for bliss but for fear. I may be restless now with life and desire, not just fear. I looked back as I un-died and went on living. The truth that’s meant the most to me I didn’t try to seek. All this space we have in which to breathe, […]

  02/21/2021 10:14 pm

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