Janelle L. Streed

Guest Poems

From the Lake of Awakening

(A Tribute to Georgia O’Keefe and Her Painting: From the Lake)

She danced the dream awake

Draped in water-colored plumes

Her bare feet beat the wooden planks

As heartbeats from the womb

Demands, which dipped and swirled

Thoughts, which spun in place

Released and given wing

Leapt across both time and space

In indigo-bunting of deep-sea green

Edged in downy white

Arms swung forth in pilgrimage

Whence souls and Gods unite

Dreams now given wing

Dance freely through the room

In daily meditations

Of water-colored plume