Page Publishing Poetry Anthology Volume 2: 50.50 Chance of Romance ** Only inside of book

By Rochelle Baxter

Follow a couple through their senior year in high school. Experience their growth through their ups, down, twists, and turns as the story unfolds. As the unexpected happens throughout the story, will their love be enough to pull them through to the end, or will it just end as another heartbreak for one or both of them?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781641389136

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Page Publishing Poetry Anthology

Volume 2

Casey Carter

Jonathan L. Evans

Annette Jeffery

V. Shaw

Dianna Flowers

Rochelle Baxter

Amanda Pape

Keelie Brennan

Mimoza Hithi

Sadie Markley

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

New York, NY

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2018

ISBN 978-1-64138-911-2 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64138-913-6 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

BOOK ONE

Women

Feeling

Nest of Rest

Building Blocks

Solar Glasses

Living Vicariously

Life’s Romance

Crisp Openness

Implode In Space

Blinking, Staring

Immutable Fortune

Heartache Anew

Tale

Whispering Waters

Emerson Miller

Kite

Zodiac Dance

One of My Clouds

Colors Infuse

Sojourn

Attachment

Feeling

When you feel all you feel, until you feel so alone

When you feel no one feels

Those feelings that feel you apart

Feeling that way is a gift and a curse

Yet feeling that way is the way you see

When you feel no one feels the way that you feel

You can feel someone feeling that way is me

Nest of Rest

Reenacting the manger

Soft days we’ve found

Tucked away

Our Christ has come-

Wonder, Redemption, Love

Wicked world

Vacuum away

In your eyes

A totem

of palace bramble

Tapis in twine

Sleek and feminine

rosy whines

Our Christ has come

Soft days we’ve found

Ostracized from the wicked world

In our manger-

Wonder, Redemption, Love

We create the dawn

Just out of reach

Soft fingertips of reckoning

We create everything in this manger

of bird bramble foliage

Found-

Holy trinity

Given to germinate with word

Inertia of wicked world

Crucifying itself, oddly enough

while laughing and bleeding gingerly

Thinking itself forgiven

by some heartless apparition

We create and consecrate this

time together

Vacuum away in your eyes

Tucked away

Ignorant of victory or defeat

Soft days we’ve found-

Wonder, Redemption, Love

Building Blocks

Allowing sweet sentiment

In waves~

Riptide and swoon-

Within me you float

Illuminating my vessel

like candle flame sangria

And what monumental price

In the face of this surrender

Is such warm evocation

Although stationary

You effortlessly dance and gaze

Unaware of my reflections

And taken aback to

puzzle piece shorelines

where my boat tires of awakening

amidst fickle, tethered tides

Vertiginous rhythms

Sound soothing Currents

Shade illustrating

the wistful release

I undergo at this moment

Unable to stop unfolding upon

Solar Glasses

We stood like figurines in the field-

Heads upturned and arms outstretched

Hearts pleading mercy from the sun

Our glasses each a different colored lens

Unknown futures glare like solar flares

Elusive essence of thoughts

Ensemble of pewter cardinals

fly away, slow motion

Halcyon eclipse

Living Vicariously

Been writing mournful songs

Been writing joyful songs

Yet my feelings are empty

on both sides of the street

A hot bath

of lightning and thunderstorms

Might try living dangerously

About due for awakening

Through with living vicariously

Been drawing my water

from storms of the past

What am I to do?

Might call on poor you

None of this ephemeralness

matters to last-

A vacation

from reanimation

Phases and feelings

long gone and subdued

Life’s Romance

I’ve been trying to write a simple song

So I’m spending some time alone

The way I used to, long before I met you

to get nearer

to see clearer

Myself and the sunrise anew

A song of the little joy that escapes

the thickest of pages

something commonplace

something all can taste

Without counting the sum of their ages

I feel it, but to spill it

is together far apart

So I’m taking this chance

starting at start

knowing no end

A simple song of life’s romance

This simple song’s for you-

Your calm shining through

All the mistaking and shapeshifting of truth

In gentle eyes

need no alibis

A simple song of life and you

Crisp Openness

Are you happy when your with me

or comfortably content?

How you soothe me

You know it’s simple

I know it speaks magnitudes

I’m a little cluttered now

But give me time

and I’ll sort it away

Grant me sweet time

I’ll make it OK-

Brought my issues

to this shore

Head tucked in lap

Could dance on fire

with mental smirks

or converse with Blake

Yet to express tenderness

for a beautiful girl?

So I dip my head in the water

Quiet myself

Allowing serenity to flood

-Coming to-

We were all beautiful as children

So I wonder to remember

little lofty gifts of flight

In my own time

In my own way

An angel? I could not tell with my organs

Softly floating and feathering lasciviously

Silent solicitude

Shapeless symphony

Reflected in your eye

Kneeling to your potion

Wrapped in your sky

Drowning in your ocean

Polar wanderings

Silent snowy orchards

Moons and stars shine wildly

Seeping from every crystal

Oh, sweet girl

My being glows

Forfeiting the struggle of consciousness

And I long to boldly pass

through your crisp openness

As I do this secret field

Implode In Space

I see in your eyes

the color has changed

The pause of your smile

Conclusions made

Ungrateful clouds

A rained parade

I know it so well

the words just fade

The moment you know, you know, you know

Flooding fourth

Eternal breach in space

My eardrums bleed

My brain is ash

Heart thumps bash with vertigo beats

The very air is hazardous gas

My eyes pop out

My dreary soul leaks

Would feign to stand

if I had feet

Why is love thought so neat?

Here I fade, decaying meat

Heard loss would make me joyful reap

A phoenix sword forged from the heat

But that’s just hype

An FN bleep

Oh, save me now

from life’s cruel sleep

Blinking, Staring

She awoke me in my

mummy bag of sleep

Closed windows

Different sides-

Blinking, staring

(screaming under water)

Beyond our grasp

Leaves me wondering?

Leaves me sickly

Past long and lone goodbyes

Am I healthy?

Am I listening?

Am I clouded to the sighs?

Walking around town

Up and down-

Kingdom of God

within me

Overwhelming feelings

Signs and symbols

Immutable Fortune

I never thought

our fire and rain would have to mix

But it did, so goodbye-

Cannot fuse with you

It hurts to wake up after being with you

Worrying is for women

Wondering if they can wrestle the wind

and make immutable fortune

a sensible friend

She packed her love into a suitcase

before she left

How heavy it must have been

(After this you’ll miss this night)

Find a woman

with roots in the earth-

Knows a little about loss

so a lot about worth

I walked away with

a different point of view

Put the old in my pocket

and stepped out for a view

I don’t need you to understand

I know in your simple way

It’s understood when you smile

and take my hand

I’m living for me

I’m living for you

Be what you have to be

Do what you have to do

Note to myself:

Thank you for making me feel welcome

Heartache Anew

It’s been so long

Since last, I saw you

I was sure I’d forgotten