FREE FOR THE TELLING
My life is a sheaf of wheat
with bundles of yellow golden
ears all in a row
and between them
poppies for red and
pretty cornflower blue
but also some weeds
My life is a stream of fishes
with glittering shiny ones
flitting in between
rocks of somber delight
hulks with grinning green mouths
full of dangerous teeth
My life is all yours
free for the taking
–the talking and telling
as yours is to me
but I must take care
not to pour
all the stories at once
into your ear
MY RAINBOW
I hide out
in the green forest
of your words
in the shade of shadows
to find you
I find my purple self
perhaps a dream
I remain speechless
our multicolored hands touch
lonely and alive
we change our colors to orange
in the embracing breeze
as we follow
a fog of veiled yellows
of floating whys
lepidopteral maybes
ever changing hues
colorful words darting out
buzzing butterflies
chamaeleon tongues
embrace us as we embrace
in the gentle breeze
of the sunset
Margaret Saine is a California poet who writes and translates in several languages. Her poems have been published in many countries and languages and she is involved in a variety of collaborative projects with diverse poets of the world. umsaine@gmail.com