Beyond the Box

By: ecopoet four corners squeeze the circumference oxygen depleting jaw clenches / rewiring the brain the holding breath / stagnant muscles / once machines / ache in human weakness / motionless flesh hangs upon limbs occupation of no choice / an outsider rigid container / compartmental confined square / insider ... surrender / arrive at...

Almost

By: ecopoet Moisture drips from the walls Time disintegrating, as worn green wallpaper  Soon / it will happen  Wait / it will come  Hold on/ it is around the corner  Almost hangs from the dusty walls resembling an irritating relative that never leaves  Almost / sticks to the back of your throat  Transfixed / almost...

Colourful

By: ecopoet Radiant colour circles the room / filling every corner   Vivid contrast / darkness scatters  Upon colours entry   Spectrum hues /  dance freely   Playfully in the openness  Darkness / defeated   Extinct   Electric blue  shocks the senses   Hot red   ignites the heart  Purple velvet   Line’s the hard edges   Yellow / pink   worlds apart   Thoughts of colour ...

Seconds

Haiku by: ecopoet the red hand keeps time  stale air surrounding a day  patron covered in silence Copyright L.Z. 2023 ©

Skin

By: ecopoet a manicured expression outside the layers appear / flawless learned through years of adaption Impenetrable plastic layers fabricated to feel as skin  hard to the touch / mascaraed chagrin  Speculative fiction  identity contained  as the other side / wears it’s true skin Copyright L.Z. 2023 ©

Flawless

By: ecopoet centering is the hardest part / the mind tilt’s left to right vision ticks / the secondhand spins backwards trees line the horizon / placement / perfect trunks grounded in the receiving soil painted sky tips the edges / flawless silence slips on as a faithful friend warm breath inhales pine needles in...

Honoured to have two poems published in Kelp Journal.

Water is our most precious resource and the foundation of all life. - eco- 2022. https://www.kelpjournal.com/post/poetry-two-poems-by-lori-zybala

Climate of Opinion

By: ecopoet absolute conviction draws to its conclusion from an individual viewpoint one stands on the rock-face alone looking out upon the world as masses of faces peer back judgment in the millions, as trees grown in their own conclusion stemming from iron upbringing opinions stronger than impressions weak in proven knowledge point of view...

One Days Turning

By: ecopoet predictable sun rises / eventually sets west one day welcomed / another an uninvited guest moods twist / turning left to right as joy and sorrows fall in and out of sight release the things that never change lean into those that do to live a life – to walk a mile one...

Placidity

Hauki by: ecopoet swing around the mind the atmosphere is frozen calm the proverbial thought cloud Copyright L.Z. 2022 ©