Jennifer’s poems are a kaleidoscope of emotions: loneliness, love, daydreams, and unexpected encounters, exclusively for Different Truths.
the world walks past
my window without me–
home sick
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every time you smile
my heart beats just a fraction
faster
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I’d like think
that your particular laugh
is just for me
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binging
train-wreck television
no self control
***
in my next life
I'll drive an Astin Martin
Bond girl
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pi day
snow day
Colorado spring
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excellent people watching–
opera’s
intermission
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grief tugs on grief
unfurling the thread of pain
from the skein wound tight
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turning every corner
at the local thrift store
I run into you
***
stepping into
a spider web in the dark –
I think of Charlotte
Picture design Anumita Roy
Jennifer Gurney, based in Colorado, teaches, paints, writes, and hikes. Her poems have appeared internationally in 11 books and won two contests. They have also been set to music, displayed on screens in Australia, printed in Washington, D.C., shared through the Rx Poetry project, and featured on a bus in Wisconsin. A lifelong writer, she says that at 62, joy and sorrow finally give her enough depth to write a decent poem now and then.
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