Adrift

Lost in the shuffle,

it’s not worth the scuffle

to fight to the surface for air…
I drown in indifference

with barely a small hint

that anyone here really cares.
Bottle these feelings

until I am reeling --

pretend everything’s what it should be.

Won’t take the bait but

am starting to hate this --

feel like I’m no longer me.

©   Ginny Brannan  Written June 2010

Sharing at Magpie Tales #100! Image Courtesy Tess Kincaid.

Unwrapped

Baubles plucked from conifer

brittle memories carefully

wrapped in tissue,

packed away; forgotten

remnants, another year 
discarded

as outdoors-in leaves once again.

Days

of darkcloud skies,

and snowpack earth

leave me

unwrapped; empty

as the cardboard at the curb.

©  Ginny Brannan January 2012
Thanks, my friends at FEPC!

Sharing at d'Verse Poets Pub Open Link Night #26 01/10/12

Uplifted

wherever I am,

poetry lifts from mundane

giving flight to dreams

© Ginny Brannan January 2011

Image Credit: http://chance-of-sunshine.blogspot.com/2011/09/umbrella-season.html

Sharing at BlueBell Books Thursday Short Story Slam January 5th, 2012

Fractured Fairy Tale

Once upon a time…

I was a different person--

innocent…trusting…

people change.

Have seen

killing without purpose;

women and children

bruised, abused; teens
abducted, raped,

murdered; wars fought

not over genocide or

starvation, but  some

political pundit’s gain.

Have known

those feigning kindness

and good-will.

Dangerous, they are…

because they act

sincere,

and look like you

and me.

Have been

stepped on,

passed over,

lied to,

back-stabbed,

ignored,

forgotten…

enough shit for one lifetime.

Some days I wish I could go back.

Too much has changed…

especially me.

©   Ginny Brannan November 2011

Ignoring the Current

The fog slips heavy through the hills

Image: Moevs, Marina River

creeps slowly ‘cross the valley floor

Peaceable river gently flows,

mirror meandering through the woods

Reminds me of you, once more.

Like river, we skirt certain issues

that nobody else seems to see;

disguised like the fog, in thick camouflage,

burying feelings, burying thoughts

as current turns past, silently

©  Ginny Brannan January 2012

Photo courtesy of Tess Kincaid, TheMag--she provides image, we provide story! Sharing at The Mag #98 

Sharing at d'Verse Poets Pub Open Link Night #29 1/31/12!

Love Undying

He comes to visit each day,

reminding us as he enters that he’ll

be taking her home as soon as she’s

better, as soon as she’s stronger;

his dear sweet wife.

He lives for this woman, now mute

regressed in her memory--

holding tightly to a baby doll

perhaps for comfort, or perhaps

lost in vision of childhood

long past.

He gently wheels her through the halls

as though on some grand tour--

then he sits on the sofa in the hall

and lovingly clasps her pale parchment hand.

Talking softly, he asks

“Do you know what day today is?

It’s New Years eve day”

........“Can you hear me?”

........“Do you know who I am?”

and I wonder …

When I am old and lost in my thoughts

will someone come to see me each day,

gently take me by the hand--

and quietly remind me who I am?

©  Ginny Brannan  January 2012
Calling this one of my "Tales from the Inside." My day job is at nursing home/rehab center. Some stories are worth sharing, this is one of them.
Image: Google Search, Old Couple (Serensojo71)

Sharing at d'Verse Poets Pub Open Link Night #25 Jan. 3rd, 2012 

http://dversepoets.com/2012/01/03/openlinknight-week-25/

Love Undying by gbrannan

Interview: Blue Bell Books Week 18 Meet the Writers

I am a regular contributor to BlueBell Books Thursday Short Story Slam, and last Fall they kindly asked me to interview for them. When originally asked, I had understood this was to be posted around 1/6, so much to my chagrin (and embarrassment for missing this!) have discovered it was actually posted in November, boy is my face red!! Just wanted to share the link here for my friends and followers. And want to thank BlueBell Books for honoring me with this interview!!

http://bluebellbooks.blogspot.com/2011/11/meet-our-writers-week-18-ginny-brannan.html