“Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow: A Review” by Barbara Leonhard

Jeff Flesch’s Poetry collection, Nature Speaks of Love and Sorrow (EIF – Experiments in Fiction, 2022), takes me into my spirit, and Spirit speaks in images, especially natural elements, like those on the book cover. The clouds rolling over sand and warm swishing waves. The dusty serene blue mystery, Love. The poems in this collection…

“Care Packages” by Jeff Flesch

I remember when you played with time and with consciousness a heart holding an alcove of memories amid strings bent by the dubious looking sea awash in pain and in possibility reminders of times gone by and of times yet to be triggering an avalanche of emotions — care packages of a seed destined to…

“Morning Majesty” By Jeff Flesch

I race against the clock nowhere to be and no one awaiting to knock me down a realization steeped in life’s everlasting tea are concoctions of the seen and unseen and the majesty of mornings binding two lovers inhabiting the same space in between all that was is, and will eventually be Copyright © 2023…

“Ephemeral Beauty” by Jeff Flesch

I saw you at a carnival when young and afraid of the dark   a cinematic encore took place vis-à-vis mutli-language discourse — dressed in ephemeral beauty, dripping through sheets of silk   toward a stage made up of dreams and of hollowed-out wood where emotions were displaced by the sanctity of your touch and…

“Sensual Places” by Jeff Flesch

I look for you in the most sensual places one can find   a myriad of lost time comes in droplets of rain cascading over a life never made under a sun made of ambrosia and rose-scented mornings twinkling in dew-ladened air delivering gifts to everyone   capable of connecting with all that’s there  …

“Mirrored Stone” by Jeff Flesch

You remind me of the sun and the way a candle flame dances in a mirrored stone   reflecting back elegance, and beauty the tenants of the known and unknown   dancing with each other through misery and hope both   a place to lay our head when confused, and needing to let go Copyright…

“Nature’s Kiss” by Jeff Flesch

I feel broken deep in my bones   a manifestation of love and of hope   a paradox, and reality for those that understand their mixture of tropes   strung along a line in the sky where creatures of earth dance   to silent tunes embracing me, and you in rapture   and in bliss…

“Fragmented Sky” by Jeff Flesch

There’s brokenness in pain and in the naturally fragmented sky clouds dispersing   and coalescing at the same time   a windy mood drops through the trees   seeing majesty, knowing tragedy   and loving you very simply Copyright © 2023 by Jeff Flesch All Rights Reserved Jeff Flesch lives in Corvallis, Oregon, and was…

“Broken Grass” by Jeff Flesch

I see you in broken grass tall, formless, and looking to eat beside the hourglass   we slip through time   short in narration and long in susurrations, make the mind believe in love   a moments wonder sitting beside you, counting blessings easing tension   relating old fears to the waystation   time, no…

“Life’s Pearls” by Jeff Flesch

You sit in silence watching the sun rest over the hill taking in your hands   life’s net of pearls   one drop, then two – you   make something sweet, and seductively secret   weaved of moments spent hunting desire and spent hunting destiny   a paradoxical quatrain envelops   the moment’s tranquility providing…

“Prized Possession” by Jeff Flesch

I look in the mirror and find a reflection, known to none, yet known to all   a persona of nature and of soul, dancing within an interlude, a prized possession – desire   feeding troubles and feeding harmony   a paradox of humanity and of the cosmos   hidden from view yet, a part…

“Courage Resurrects” by Jeff Flesch

I’ve come from afar another galaxy of stars away take shape in the sights, and sounds of the night a mirror image the fabrics and scents of you a remembrance of all that was once good and new take my heart into another dimension of space a place where light enters into the cavity of…

“Threads” by Jeff Flesch

I look for you in the sky and find you before the sun can eclipse the stars outlined by a heart shattered into pieces of love transformed into a wondering about the nature of life within a head filled with ideas held together by threads of pain, and promise left beside the shore where you…

“Starburst Pattern” by Jeff Flesch

nestled together we outfit each other in layers of love enfolded  in arms of passion and hope dripping  from fingers anointed with sensitivity they manifest when close a starburst pattern  traced  over the mind’s eye connected  always  to your heart, and mine Copyright © 2022 Jeff Flesch All Rights Reserved Jeff Flesch lives in Corvallis, Oregon,…

“Twilight State” by Jeff Flesch

I look through you into the vastness of space a mirror washing over time’s bleakness a desperate twilight state categorizing concepts into their proper place along meadows filled with new thoughts and feelings arising within a heart finally open to love’s healing Copyright © 2022 Jeff Flesch All Rights Reserved Jeff Flesch lives in Corvallis,…

Lilac and Mint by Jeff Flesch

I walk toward the moonlilac and mint waft through the nighta fragrance bruising my heart, andhard to define it’s you youthat spilled out of the seeds last Autumn and, youspilling out of the nightnow confusion, a mistterrifying and, terribly satisfying I recede, realizing it’s the shape, texture, and tone of your mindI’ve missed all this…

Plum Trees by Jeff Flesch

Plum Trees by Jeff Flesch, Monthly Contributorsite: Develop. Inspire. Transform plum trees always takemy breath away as in their shade, we playwith notions of hope and trust and a little bit of the magic seenwithin the last bunch of flowersfrom the tree they always relate to me, and all the thingsI’ve been and seen far…

Gumdrops and Glitter by Jeff Flesch

Gumdrops and Glitter by Jeff Flesch, Monthly Contributor site: Develop. Inspire. Transform the sea rises over my heartwhile I lean into love like a fairytale, made up of gumdropsand glitter, which never stops enticingthe senses even with a skewed perspective created from the pastwhen flowers didn’t bloom, ratherthey died fast entering my heart in one…

your eyes by Jeff Flesch

your eyes by Jeff Flesch, Monthly Contributorsite: https://jeffflesch.com/ nature is full of wonder, all of itsaspects take me under, into a world seen and unseenlike the breeze on a cold and windy dayin the midst of a calm sea I resign, and stay to myselfamidst the known and unknown for they are of equal partsliving…

rainbow trim by Jeff Flesch

rainbow trim by Jeff Flesch, Monthly Contributor site: Develop. Inspire. Transform folded end over end, like a pieceof steel with rainbow trim a fascinating deluge of colorsvibrant and felt within my heart it beats to a steady rhythm, resonatingwith the loss and suffering we’ve allbeen throughas past and present experiences coalesceinto you and I transpirelike…