Kimberly Dale

 

Poems and Short Stories

The Cow Story

Written by Kimberly Dale. A story about a cow and a bird and miracles. This was written many years ago while eight of us were stuck out on a sailboat with no wind and a paddle in the middle of the river...

Magnetic Poetry

Snapshots of poetic musings.

Gramma June (Christmas 2005)

I don't want to make you cry
With touching memories,
But I wanted you to know
Just what you mean to me.

All the things I learned from you
- Much more than you would guess.
To knit and be creative
Are small among the rest.

You taught me love, so simply
Through how you loved others.
You taught me patience, indeed -
Three sons call you mother!

You taught me to be grateful
For everything around.
You taught me to see beauty
In little things I found.

You taught me the secret
To a youthful complexion -
"Always use Oil of Olay
In an upward direction."

You taught me to find humor
Where it might be missing.
You taught me your history
With your reminiscing.

I hope to take everything
I've learned from knowing you,
To be as great a person
As you are, through and through.

WoW Widow

where oh where could my dear boyfriend be?
stuck in a realm too far away from me...
a healer, a dwarf, trading hides for gold
all i want are his arms around me to hold

doing a raid, it'll take just a minute,
it's 10:01 and our bed - he's not in it.
home all alone longing for his touch
him to be home soon, do i ask too much?

the life of a widow, but i am too young
missing my man as the bad guys have sprung
"i can't leave now, my crew needs me!"
they're not the only ones, i know you agree.

some day i hope you grow bored of this
putting quests ahead of my sweet kiss
until then, i guess it's alone i'll be
thinking of you, in a realm far from me.

Poems from High School (dated May 12 1994)

he died next year

he died next year
      yet the world sings on
    to defeat the daylight in the void
of time, he knew none but himself

the color of his eye
      faded into a morning
    he dies this year,
but the world's gone mute.

a shattering blue

there is no significance
      to a dark world

a star shadowed by the moon,
  endless life destroyed
    for split seconds of faith...

there is no significance
      to an everlasting world,
  already disappearing,
    already a shattering blue

the shape of city streets

on the beach
      storm clouds
    electric green
  seem to bury the wind
      beneath the sea

somewhere between twelve and six
      the sky
    a medley of colors
  takes the shape of city streets
that seem to bury the wind

my life metamorphosis

my life metamorphosis
      in the mirror of my past
future forms of my soul, unknown,
    unseen in a crystal ball.
  the paths i've travelled
fade away at the sound of my last step

forever in the gray

  the world
      fades to zero
clouds count to ten
 nothing lives to yesterday
      forever in the gray

the wild heart's fields

  the lion's greed, in agony
the pain of love and daisies.
      growl and depart
      from the wild heart's fields
forget the future
    predict the past
and stay in the shade of
  the elephant's tusks.

mazes of man's salvation

the sand swallowed
      the hollow shell
and the waters that flowed from Zimbabwe
got lost in the mazes of time.

the bonfired burn,
    sand and water meld into one
  barrier between time and truth
the foaming, rolling waves see themselves,
  then hide behind the mountains
    looming like the Andes.
they dig and tear at the edge of man's salvation.

illusion of separation

the illusion of separation
    glows as a reflection
  upon the water
a million treetops and their stars
 silhouetted against Cheshaven
    touch in praise
      at dawn.
a quarter of the world,
  at seven o'clock
    across the timezones,
wake up together

 

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