Two Poems by Joanna M. Weston

Contradictions

when I slept
with you the nights
filled with sunlight

now I sleep alone
my dreams chase
a jeering voice



The Farewell

when rain stopped
when wind ceased
then came grief
deep below hurt

the leaving and goodbye
at the open door
before the closing
before the car-start

motion down driveway
vanish along road
to emptiness
of sky  earth  self

Joanna M. Weston is married, has two cats, multiple spiders, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen houses.  Her middle reader, Those Blue Shoes, is published by Clarity House Press.  Her poetry collection, A Summer Father, is published by Frontenac house of Calgary.  Her eBooks can be found at http://www.1960willowtree.wordpress.com/