Online Journal of Poetry
Volume 1 Issue 9 December 2003
 

 

Ichthus
by Linda L. Bielowski

Take me from this Earth

Heavy and hard
Clumps of clay toil
Congeal to soiled tribulation
Heaped on Sisyphus shoulders
Akimbo with burdens unremitting
Mired in midnight migraines
Gills choking on anoxic self-deprecation
Genuflection to Janus-faced identities
While the answers lay low
In the cached Fields of Asphodel

Give me to the Sea

Salty and soft
Soothing liquefied thunder
Rolls over living touchstones
Luring spurious-winged gulls
To peck away at rockweed hair shirts
Sinking in fathomless grace
Everlasting confessional tides
Flowing outward, ebbing inward
For the meaning under the meaning
On the ocean floor of the soul
 

© 2003

Linda is a practicing psychotherapist and certified pastoral counselor. After a long hiatus, she returned to creative writing through her experiences facilitating a spirituality group and through the support she received during a poetry exhibition at the University of Chicago. "My work derives from a spiritual/psychological base; and, delves into our interior selves to unravel the deeper issues intrinsic to the human condition." Linda's work has appeared in numerous journals, including Poetic Hours, Muse Apprentice Guild, and, SubtleTea. Spirit Echoes, her first poetry collection, was recently published.

 

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