Two Poems by Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper

Wishes
 

Thoughts about disappointments

rarely run away with purpose.

Wishes are only whims and head

droops in mocking silhouette

formed to placate the moment.
 

There's rhythm in time's passage

that's touched with the barest

of breeze to soothe taut nerves.
 

Lips taste curious excitement

and my strings shake

with calculated risk - desire a magnet.

     I tremble, I want, I need...


 

Sculpted Imagination
 

In that floating moment

before morning

when night turns

from the rising light,

dreams quiver

in a nauseous state.
 

I feel like -

I'm holding my breath,

waiting for tragedy

to bleed me of sap.
 

In the shiver of morning,

daylight knocks

and the dream winks

and closes its eyes

as mine pop open.
 

With throbbing pulse

the suffocating fear

washes away.


 

Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper’s poetry has appeared in numerous International, hard copy and internet magazines.  Her chapbook, ‘Reach Beyond’ was winner of a MAG Press, International Chapbook Competition  and she has two chapbooks, Mood Magic and A Slice of Life published by Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry.  Twenty-three of her poems were presented in the play, ‘Soldier’s Heart’ to Sold Out audiences and recorded on DVD. Her latest published pieces are 'featured' in the Summer issue of Poetry Quarterly and published in the October issue of Flutter.