Ysabel de la Rosa

Poetry, prose, art and design

Poetry Page

The following poems have been published in various literary magazines. Responses, comments, and feedback are welcome. The page will change seasonally, so come back and visit with some new poems in the future.

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OCEAN  WAVES

© Ysabel de la Rosa, published in Manorborn, 2009

 

The ocean waves
hello     goodbye.

It greets my thighs
with rhythm, with force, and
in its eternal, changing course
it waves and pushes,
it pushes and pulls me
in. The watertops lick me,
delight me, surprise me.

The ocean waves
hello      goodbye.

I wade to land to see,
to remember, the light—
how it breaks on the water,
how it dances undone
in pieces and particles
over one great body,
refracted, reflected,
broken yet perfected.

I return to the ocean,
the deep green, thick green,
sun-splintered ocean, to join
the water waltzing under
a great blue bowl of sky
while

The ocean waves
hello     goodbye.

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TRANSFUSING

© Ysabel de la Rosa, published in Manorborn

 

You fill my thoughts like
water the vase.
                      You fill
my thoughts like liquid
molecules migrating
into and up through
the inner, chambered cells
of the pink-flowered stem
inside the vase.

Pitcher in hand,
I pour, but you,
                   you fill
my thoughts
like water the vase
while I make note that
somehow, somewhere
inside me, you
                  are taking place.

Let